Saturday 23 September 2006
MOY 0 - 10 2 - 11 LOUGHMACRORY
Manager Coyle marks comeback with two goal blitz in Moy
Despite being short a number of regulars the reserves scored an exciting seven points victory over Moy in Tír Na nÓg park on Saturday, repeating the feat achieved one week earlier at the same venue in the championship.
Fielding a team was the first problem facing manager Malachy Coyle and when he could only muster fourteen players he togged out himself, took up his position at corner forward and banged home two goals to help Loughmacrory to a seven point victory.
Moy started the brighter of the two sides surging forward mounting a number of attacks in the opening ten minutes but the Loughmacrory defence was solid, with Kevin Fullen and Benny Ward especially prominent, and held them scoreless for thirteen minutes. The visitors on the other hand scored with their first attack when Benny Ward split the posts after five minutes. The home side notched two quick points but a converted free from Stephen Grimes levelled matters at the quarter way stage. Moy then went one up but Eoin Mullan replied immediately knocking over the first of five consecutive Loughmacrory points in a prolific ten minute period. Stephen McGaughey then turned his marker and shot over from an acute angle and Connal Kelly then took the scoring reins sending over three points in five minutes, Ryan Keenan and Paddy McDonald his suppliers. The home side opened the second period sharply with three points reducing the deficit to two, Loughmacrory’s only reply a Grimes point before player manager Coyle, in his first game of the season, took a pass form Connal Kelly and rattled the Moy net with the first of his two goals. The Moy did pull back two points but one of these was from the penalty spot. Benny Ward and Eoin Mullan made it 1 - 11 to 0 - 10 before Coyle struck for his second major, the Moy keeper failing to hold a Paddy McDonald shot and he showed some of his old poaching instincts as he toe poked the rebound to the net.
Moy did convert a 45 before the final whistle but by then the visitors had the game wrapped up.
