Junior
Football: Bally played Knockane last Thursday evening in Caherelly in round
three of the junior B football championship hoping to maintain our good form
having previously beating Kilteely and Caherconlish. The game proved to be a
physical encounter with both teams battling hard and fair throughout, our first
score was from the boot of Aaron O Brien who finished to the corner of the net
this was followed up by points from Jason Cross, Conor McCarthy (2) to
leave us down by one at the water break. During the second quarter we contained
our opponents well and kept them scoreless for the remainder of the half with
our backs Mark O Dea and Eoin Kloos leading the charge while at the other end
Niall Mitchell got a point and Conor McCarthy struck a goal leaving the score
2-4 to 1-4 at the mid-way point. The Cross brothers were both on the score
sheet with two excellent taken points early in the second period next came a
decisive goal from Daniel Owens after great work from Jack Cross on the
end line followed up by points from Daniel McGuire and Conor Mac leaving us
leading by seven at the final water break. With fresh legs on the field we
continued on top and Conal Ryan got 1-1 in a flash first he finished off a
lovely team move for a point followed by a bullet finish that almost took away
the net our scoring was finished off by a point a piece from Conor Mac and
Darragh Hogan with the final score reading 4-11 to Knockanes 1-09. Team from
John Casey Jack Owens, Eoin Kloos, Matt Mitchell, Patrick Byrnes, Mark O Dea,
Sean Teefy, Niall Mitchell, Aaron O Brien, Michael Martin, Jason Cross, Daniel
McGuire, Conor McCarthy, Paul Martin, Daniel Owens, Gearoid Mitchell, Darragh
Hogan, Tommy Carroll, Kieran McCarthy, Jack Cross, Conal Ryan, Shane O Neill.