Dwyer shows class up front
one, with Mikie Dwyer expertly splitting the posts from out near the left sideline.
Three points on the trot between the 21st and 25th minutes put Fethard right back in the game though, with Chris Molloy finding the range and Mark Wallace knocking over two placed balls into the teeth of the strong wind.
Pierce Doyle then converted two placed balls, either side of efforts from Mikie Dwyer and Mark Wallace (free), to leave Taghmon-Camross holding an 0-8 to 0-6 advantage at the break.
With the assistance of the breeze in the second period, Fethard looked to hold all the aces and so it proved, with two Pierce Doyle frees being all Taghmon-Camross could muster in the half.
Mikie Dwyer showcased his talents with three more wonderful points, while Mark Wallace gobbled up any opportunities that came his way from placed balls.
A Pierce Doyle free was actually the first score of the half, stretching the Taghmon-Camross lead to three, but Fethard reeled off four points on the trot, with Mikie Dwyer grabbing another score and Mark Wallace converting three frees to edge them in front for the first time.
Pierce Doyle knocked over another free in the 46th minute to level matters again, but they failed to work the scoreboard thereafter, with Fethard assuming total control.
Mikie Dwyer was at it again a minute later with another peach of a point, before Garrett Foley boomed over an inspirational longrange score in the 49th minute and followed up with a carbon copy moments later.
A long-range free from Mark Wallace stretched the lead to four points in the 52nd minute, and then Mikie Dwyer added the pick of the bunch when he fired over a magical point off his right from the left sideline.
Ciarán Dwyer grabbed the final point for Fethard and they withstood all Taghmon-Camross could throw at them in the final minutes to round off a very satisfying afternoon. MONAGEER-BOOLAVOGUE had just that little bit too much guile as they manoeuvred past Kilmore in Bellefield on Saturday and into the Junior ‘A’ hurling championship final.
With a strong blend of experienced hurlers who have played at a higher level in recent years, and a smattering of young talent that might well make the step up to Intermediate in the future, Monageer-Boolavogue have the perfect mix for success.
They don’t panic either, as their first four scores were all immediately followed by at least one wide, sometimes two on the bounce, but they quickly put the misses behind them and set about building a lead.
Monageer-Boolavogue had something to hold on to after those first four scores. Colm O’Loughlin and Declan Kelly both had points on the board when they combined for the opening goal.
The experienced O’Loughlin collected a Morgan Gahan’s breaking puck-out and handpassed in to Kelly who fired low past Nicholas Whelan to edge his side 1-3 to 0-4 ahead.
They might have been a tad lucky to be in front at that stage. Gahan had made a crisp save from Tom White while Philip Sutton had sent an audacious overhead pull whistling across the face of goal and narrowly wide in the opening quarter.
Monageer-Boolavogue still led by two at the interval (1-5 to 0-6) but quickly set about padding it. Diarmuid Fenlon picked off a couple of points and James Sweeney’s close-range pull to the net, after Whelan had twice saved from Kelly in the build-up, gave the Enniscorthy District side a commanding 2-7 to 0-6 lead.
The advantage got as large as eight, double-scores at 2-10 to 0-8, when O’Loughlin popped over his fourth point in the 47th minute.
Paddy Byrne went as close as anyone to narrowing the gap significantly in normal time when his shot clipped the crossbar and went over with seven minutes remaining.
Monageer-Boolavogue still led by 2-11 to 0-10 heading into injury-time but Kilmore made the margin of their defeat a little narrower when Stevie Cousins drilled a 20-metre free through a crowded goal-line, off a defender’s hurl and the post, to the net.
Alas, it was too little, too late for Kilmore as their opponents advance to face Cloughbawn in the decider.