Five-star Bay boys enjoy a road trip

BJD CELTIC 1 BAY FC 5

A horrible 180km round trip was made worthwhile for Bay by collecting all three points on a cold winter’s night on Friday in Cavan.

It was one of their better performances this season, as they dominated from the opening minute.

BJD were resilient in defence though and it was 20 minutes before Bay broke the deadlock.

Marcel Ekwueme chipped a delightful through ball over the defence for new signing Victor Galan to finish first time into the bottom corner.

Straight from the restart Bay doubled their lead. Angelo Stanley played a fantastic long range pass to Anton Webb who controlled it brilliantly and fired it into the back of the net.

BJD provided little resistance after that but the winners failed to take any of the numerous chances they created and the score remained two nil at the break. BJD cut the deficit in half five minutes into the second period. A fine save from Kevin Mullen resulted in a corner which was headed home by the BJD striker.

Anton Webb made it 3-1 on the hour mark and grabbed his second hitting a half volley into the ground and the ball bounced over the outstretched BJD keeper.

Webb completed his hattrick moments later converting a penalty after Alfonso Crespo was hacked down in the box.

Substitute Ciaran Murphy rounded off the scoring hitting the back of the net 37 seconds after coming off the bench to grab his side’s quickest goal of the season. BAY: Kevin Mullen, Angelo Stanley, Steven McGuinness, Brendan Nash, Peter Sweeney, Victor Galan(Alfonso Crespo 75), Kevin Scollon (Ciaran Murphy 70), Sandro Sefanovski(Robbie Murphy 55), Joe Woods, Anton Webb, Marcel Ekwueme (Robbie O’ Hanlon 70).