Saturday 03 September 2006
LOUGHMACRORY 0 - 10 1 - 10 DRUMQUIN
Seniors come up short against Drumquin
The seniors came up short in this game in which they seemed to be on their way to a comfortable victory after just five minutes when they led by five points to no score. That initial dominance faded however when visitors Drumquin then posted three points without reply. In fact it took the home side 55 minutes to register another 5 points. Stevie Conway started the scoring blitz with a magnificent left footed effort from near the sideline. He then fed captain Enda Ward who split the posts and when Ciarán Ward, Sean Paul Slane and Ward again pointed from a free the home side looked to be on course for big win. Drumquin then replied with three unanswered points of their own but again Conway, who was showing some of his old class, winning every ball that came his way, set up Ciarán Ward for his second point.
The Wolfe Tones then began to exert some pressure and it took a point blank save from Ryan Keenan in the Loughmacrory goal to deny them a three pointer before Sean Paul Slane wrapped up the first half scoring with a neat point to leave the home side leading 0 - 07 to 0 - 03 at the turn around. On the resumption it was the visitors who were quickest out of the traps knocking over four points in ten minutes to level the game at seven apiece. With their tails now up they scented victory and once again Lough keeper Ryan Keenan was called upon as he made excellent work to turn a goal bound effort around the post for a forty-five. For the next ten minutes it was touch and go as the Tones replied each time to points from Sean Paul Slane and Benny Ward before Neil Mullan fed substitute Stephen Donaghy to put Loughmacrory one up with four minutes to go.
That goal which the Tones had been threatening eventually came from a punched ball turning a one point deficit into a 2 point lead for the visitors. The Lough boys did make a last minute raid in search of at least a draw but it was the visitors who finished the stronger knocking over one extra point in the dying minutes to emerge three points clear.
