Heywood CS 8-6 St Kevin’s Dunlavin (Wicklow) 4-6
First Year South Leinster ‘C’ Football Championship Semi Final
Heywood are through to South-Leinster ‘C’ First Year football championship final after a strong win over St Kevin’s Dunlavin on home turf.
Despite foggy conditions, Heywood managed to produce a powerful performance throughout the game.
It was their work rate that was most impressive a long with some clinical finishing.
Cillian Murphy and James O’Mara both scored early goals, to give Heywood a cushion that they would never relinquish.
Despite Heywood always holding this lead St Kevin’s added to a great game and showed plenty of skill and a great attitude.
Heywood led at half time on a scoreline of 3-4 to 1-2. For the second half, both teams set out eager to come out on top.
Once again it was Heywood who scored first with a goal from Liam O’Donnell.
The rest of the second half was a well balanced affair with Heywood winning out by 12 points in the end.
Liam Ellis was the playmaker in chief on the day with Cillian Murphy and James O’Mara doing the most damage in front of goals.
Harry Carney and John Fingleton had two impressive performances also.
Scorers – Cillian Murphy 4-1, James O’Mara 2-2, Liam O’Donnell 1-0, Aaron O’Brien 1-0, Liam Ellis 0-2, Darragh Kennedy 0-1
HEYWOOD CS: Harry Carney (Ballyroan-Abbey); Donal Lynam (Spink), Joe O’Connor (Spink), John Fingleton (Park-Ratheniska); Darragh Kennedy (Spink), Darragh Curran (Crettyard), Stephen Jones (Ballyroan-Abbey); Conor Delaney (Spink), Peter Keane (Ballyroan-Abbey); John Kelly (Park-Ratheniska), Liam Ellis (The Harps), James O’Mara (Ballinakill); Liam O’Donnell (Ballyroan-Abbey), Mikey O’Keeffe (Ballyroan-Abbey), Cillian Murphy (The Harps)
Subs: Tom Graham (Crettyard), Aaron O’Brien (Spink), Dylan Delaney (Ballyroan), Luke Bergin, Conor Moylan (Ballyfin), Ruairi Bowe (Timahoe), Darragh O’Connor (Timahoe), Nathan Cuddy (Colt), Daniel Knowles (Ballyroan-Abbey), Sean Knowles (St Joseph’s), Aaron Cuddy (Shanahoe), Brian Doogue (Colt), Blake Morgan (Ballyroan-Abbey), Brian Lacey (Ballinakill)
SEE ALSO – Camogie: Leinster senior success as Heywood CS see off Rosbercon to claim glory
