Sunday 29 April 2007
CLONOE 2 - 06 0 - 08 LOUGHMACRORY
The seniors dropped their first league points on Sunday away to Clonoe in a hard fought battle at O’Rahilly Park.
The home side had much the better of the early exchanges and, despite some staunch defending from Ciarán Meenagh and John Gallagher in the Loughmacrory defence, they had gone three points up before Loughmacrory opened their account with a converted free from Ronan Ward after twenty minutes. That opening score did settle the visitors and two minutes later they had drawn level with points from Sean Slane and another fine effort from Ward. Two minutes later Ward provided the pass for his namesake Ciarán Ward to put the visitors ahead at 0 - 04 to 0 - 03 before the short whistle sounded. Unfortunately for the visitors corner forward Stephen Donaghy limped off injured after only eleven minutes of the first half.
That lead was short lived however as the second period was just three minutes old when Clonoe struck for two goals to take a five points lead. The St Teresa’s were not gone yet however and by the three quarter stage the ever accurate Ronan Ward had closed the gap to two with three converted frees. At this stage Loughmacrory were beginning to get on top and after making a fine catch Damien McAleer found Ciarán Ward who in turn put Enda Ward through for a point. That was as good as it was to get for the visitors however as the O’Rahilly’s finished the game with two further points to run out comfortable winners in the end.
