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Junior
Championship Final 2000 ABBEYDORNEY
0-9 BALLYHEIGUE 0-7
Any hopes Ballyheigue
held of annexing a second major title inside
three weeks ended in a bitter disappointment
when they went under to Abbeydorney in a tempestuous
County Junior Final at a wind & rain
lashed John Joe O'Sullivan Park. For most
of game it looked likely that Ballyheigue
would add to their ever increasing trophy
room but at the end of 60 minutes it was not
to be; six magnificent strikes from the stick
of Abbeydorney's sharp shooter Tim Fealy more
than made the difference between victory & defeat
for O'Dorney men.
Abbeydorney played against a
strong breeze in the first half & trailed
by 3 points by end of first quarter, Damien
Casey, Nicholas Stack & Jason
Griffin scoring for Ballyheigue; then in
the 17th minute Damien Casey added
another for Ballyheigue and Tim Fealy opened
Abbeydorney's account a minute later when
he pointed after a free on hard grafting Dan
Nolan. Ballyheigue finnished the half the stronger,
though and points from Jason Griffin, Nicholas
Stack & Jason
Griffin (his third in the game), gave
them an inteveral lead of 0-7 to 0-1.
Abbeydorney
needed something special if they were to get
back into the action and they got it in the
shape of a Tim Fealy point inside the first
four minutes of the new half. Full forward Tom
Rice added another O'Dorney point after 42
minutes and suddenly Abbeydorney's chances
of a famous victory looked bright again.
Now
with the momentum firmly behind O'Dorney, attacks
in waves and points from Tim Fealy (0-2) and
a magnificent long range effort by sub Liam
McCarthy sent the game into extra time.
Denis
Long & Declan Quill
were introduced to the fray. Abbeydorney had
the advantage of the elements for the second
half of extra time and with their dander now
up, they proceeded to take the game to their
rivals. Within two minutes of extra time, Dan
Nolan put the O'Dorney men in front again;
Tim Fealy pointed a free and with 5 minutes
gone they lead by 2 points.
Ballyheigue tried
everything to get back into contention and
they brought John
Healy up to join the attack in an effort
to turn things around but some magnificent
rearguard action from the O'Dorney men denied
them.
After
the game Jerome Conway presented the cup
to Ger Maunsell, Abbeydorney captain.
TEAMS & SCORERS:
Abbeydorney: Richard O'Brien, David Clifford,
Ger Maunsell, John Sheehan, Mikey Leahy,
David Moore, Niall O'Connell, Kieran O'Connell,
Dan Nolan (0-1), Robert Murphy, Bill Maunsell,
John O'Sullivan, David O'Connell, Tom Rice
(0-1), Tim Fealy (0-6) Subs: Liam McCarthy
for Bill Maunsell & Bill
Maunsell for Robert Murphy
Ballyheigue:
John Healy, John Griffin, Mike Kenny, Jer
Slattery, Paul Casey, Colm Griffin, Adrian
Sheehan, Jason griffin (0-3), Noel Kilbride,
Liam O'Mahoney, Damien Casey (0-2), David
Lowe, Gearoid Regan, Niall Stack (0-2) Subs:
Brendan Dunne for David Lowe, D Quill for
P Casey, D Lawlor for D quill D Lowe for
B Dunne
Referee: Gerry Gleeson (John Mitchels)
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