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K.C. | B.O'R | Monday 8 June 2009
Under 9 & 10 Football
The Under 10 footballers had their first league outing recently when they travelled to play Kilmurry. The home side made the better start and had their opening point after five minutes. Maguire’s settled well and found the net twice in before half time to lead by four points at the break. Two more goals by Maguire’s in the second half helped them to a comfortable victory in the end.
TEAM: JAMIE KEARNEY, JAMES O SULLIVAN, JERRY O FARRELL, KILLIAN CAHALANE, PARAIG GALVIN, EOIN O SULLIVAN, BRIAN O SULLIVAN, RHYS COAKLEY, DENIS MC CARTHY, BRIAN MC CARTHY, STEPHEN DALY, RONAN DALY, KEITH WHITE, CATHAL KELLY, DENIS MC CARTHY, SHANE GALVIN, JACK FARR, AARON COUGHLAN AND JACK WALSH.
ON THE SAME NIGHT THE UNDER 9’S TRAVELLED TO NEWCESTOWN AND HAD A VERY USEFUL WORKOUT WITH THE HOME SIDE IN THE SCHOOL FIELD.
A TOTAL OF 42 PLAYERS WERE IN ACTION ON THE NIGHT!
The Under 10 and Under 9 Footballers hosted Clonakilty on last Wednesday night recording two victory’s on the night both in very competitive games.
Again thanks to all the parents and mentors for their support and help.
Under 12 Football
On Sunday the 17th May the Under 12 footballers travelled to Enniskeane to take on Clonakilty in the West Cork Final. This was always going to be an uphill battle as Clonakilty had been unbeaten all year recording very comprehensive victories on their path to the final.Playing against the wind in the first half Maguire’s found the going tough with Clonakilty piling on the pressure to race into a 1-4 to 0-0 lead after ten minutes despite some stout defending by Sean Hudson and great goalkeeping by Padraig Crowley. Despite trying their hearts out Maguire’s went into the break well behind a very strong and resilient Clonakilty outfit. Conditions deteriorated in the second half and despite the best efforts of Mark Buckley and Thomas White at centre field they just could not get enough ball into the forwards who were in turn well marshalled by a resolute Clonakilty defence. Although well beaten in the end the team can be proud of their achievements in getting to the final and with most of the players Under 12 again next year they can look forward to better days in the future.
Team: Padraig Crowley, Emmet Russell, James O Neill, Jack McGiveren, Daniel Hayes, Sean Hudson, Adrain Cronin, Mark Buckley, Tomas White, Mark McCarthy, Nicholas Bryan, Ray Jennings, Kevin Murphy, Aidan O Donavan, Jack Hurley.
Subs ; Cathal O Donavan, Paul O Mahony, Padraig O Mahony, Martin Murphy,Aidan Murphy, Conor Robinson.
On Saturday last the team travelled to Aghada to take on the locals in the county quarter final. On a very warm day for football the game turned out to be very entertaining and close fought encounter. Aghada took control early on and lead by 1-3 to 0-1 after the first quarter. After a great individual point by Mark Buckley the hosts responded with five unanswered points leaving Maguire’s with a mountain to climb approaching half time.
After the break Maguire’s upped their performance with points from Sean Hudson, Tomas White and two more from the impressive Mark Buckley helping to reduce the hosts lead to a mere five points. Aghada then took control with two goals in quick succession pushing them into a 3-8 to 0-6 lead with fifteen minutes remaining. Maguire’s then piled on the pressure but found the Aghada goalkeeper in inspired form saving certain goals from the Tomas White and Cathal O Donavan. Two more points helped to reduce the arrears but Maguire’s could not rattle the Aghada net to bring them back into contention. Aghada finished the stronger with a further two goals putting paid to any Maguire fightback. Although well beaten in the end the team can well pleased with their efforts against a physically stronger Aghada team. The final score saw the hosts running out victors on a scoreline of 5-9 to 0-9.
Team: Padraig Crowley, Emmet Russell, James O Neill, Jack McGovern, Daniel Hayes, Sean Hudson, Adrain Cronin, Mark Buckley, Tomas White, Mark McCarthy, Nicholas Bryan, Padraig O Mahony, Ray Jennings, Cathal O Donavan, Jack Hurley.
Subs; Paul O Mahony, Aidan Murphy, Conor Robinson, Paul O Mahony.
Under 14 Hurling
The Sam Maguire under 14 hurlers played Ballinscarthy in the quarter final of the championship in Rossmore recently. Turning in a very impressive display of Hurling the team ran out winners on a score line of 2-9 to 1-2 having lead at the break by a seven point margin. This impressive performance was capped by some fine individual displays by Joseph O Sullivan in goal who was aided by the very solid Tom Murphy at full back. Others to impress were full forward Danny O Leary and Maurice Herlihy at corner forward who got to score of the match with a well taken point from the endline off his weaker left side.” Straight out of his granddads coaching manual”. The team had obviously benefited from a hard fought encounter the previous week in the league against Kilmeen where they eventually lost by a point on a scoreline of 2-12 to 2-11.
The next outing is at home to Ballineen next Tuesday night with throw in at 7.30pm.
Team: Joseph O Sullivan, Jonathan O Sullivan, Tom Murphy, Kevin Dullea, Sheena Crowley, Eoin Michael Lavers, Darragh McCarthy, John Kelly, Don O Driscoll, Dylan O Driscoll, Alan O Driscoll, Liam Rice, Sean Healy, Danny O Leary, Maurice Herlihy. Subs: Michael Kearney, Eoin Murphy, Ray Jennings, John Kingston.
Non Exam Football
The non exam footballers had a number of outings recently. The first of these was against Macroom where they lost by the narrowest of margins on a score line of 1-10 to 0-12. The second outing was away to Rosscarbery where the hosts defeated them on a score line of 3-9 to 1-4 with the goal coming from the boot of Declan Coughlan.
On Monday last they played Bandon and in the poorest display of the campaign so far they were defeated by 7-14 to 1-4.This game was notable for the debut of Nigerian born Zemen Abun in the Maguire’s jersey proving that Barry Herlihys worldwide scouting network is finally paying dividends for the Sam Maguire’s under age club.