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PRESS
RELEASE
League
Match
Sunday 3rd June
Mullabrack B 2:9 v
Corrinshego 2:3
A rainy day in Mullabrack
greeted the two teams at 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. Mullabrack
fresh from a good championship win and a Corrrinshego team which
looked up for the fight.
The game started at a fierce
pace, but as you can expect the rainy weather brought with it a very
slippy ball and both sides found it difficult to cope. Corrinshego,
however started the better, getting to grips with the conditions
after 10 minutes when they registered the first score. Mullabrack
looked to be at “sixes and sevens” and still had not settled when
with twenty minutes gone Corrinshego fired home their first goal. At
this point Mullabrack replied immediately with a good strike from
Paddy Toal.
At half time everyone was
glad of the break and it was a fired up Mullabrack side which
returned for the second half. Playing with a renewed energy
Mullabrack began to take control of the game. Gary Gorman and Sean
Agnew were winning the 50/50 balls in midfield and at last the ball
began to stick in the forward line with Benny Dougan and Gerard
Agnew beginning to assert their dominance. A high ball in from Pip
Agnew into a crowded goal area was forced into the net from the boot
of Benny Dougan. From this point onwards Mullabrack continued to put
points on the board. A ‘45’ taken by Gerard Agnew also sailed its
way between the posts and Mullabrack found themselves ahead after 10
minutes of the second half at 1:3 to 1:1.
In the back line Tommy
O’Hagan and Hugh McSorely collected all the high balls that landed
in the Mullabrack area. Time and again Corrinshego tried to take
their first score of the second half and each time they were denied
by a stern Mullabrack defence. In the fifteenth minutes of the
second half Gerard Agnew took charge of the ball for a free 40 yards
out on the left hand side. As the ball entered the area all players
missed the flight of the ball including the Corrinshego goal keeper
and the ball ended up in the Corrinshego net. Gerard Agnew was soon
on the score sheet again with his trade mark 40 yard point on the
run. Benny Dougan then got on the score sheet with a good catch and
turn point from 20 yards out.
Corrinshego to their credit
continued to battle on in the poor conditions. Mullabrack failed to
clear the ball from a crowded goal mouth area and the referee award
a free to Corrinshego in front of the posts which they took with
ease. However, that man Agnew was soon on the score sheet again with
a 45 yard free from hand which he put between the posts. Mullabrack
then made a substitution with Phelim Sands replacing Paddy Toal and
soon after this Mullabrack returned to scoring ways with yet another
35 yard free from Gerard Agnew on the hand touchline.
Corrinshego refused to
accept defeat and following a “purple patch” of their own they
managed a further point and a scrambled goal in a crowded Mullabrack
goal area. The clock was slowly counting down and the last score of
the game came from Mullabrack’s young forward Benny Dougan who once
again beat is man and on the turn slotted the ball between the
posts.
Mullabrack team: D Gibney, D
O’Hanlon, H McSorely, C Dougan, T O’Hagan, P Toal, S Baxter, G
Gorman, S Agnew, P Agnew, S McKinney, D McNeil, G Agnew, B Dougan, D
Smith.
Subs: P Sands, M McCusker, C
Donnelly,
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