Mitchelstown miss out to Kanturk in intermediate
IN the County IFC three neighbouring clubs from the Division competed: Mitchelstown, Glanworth, and Kildorrery.
Incidentally all three were beaten by Kanturk on their way to County glory. In all 20 clubs competed, there were 40 matches including three replays and relegation games.
Kildorrery were first into the action when they played Glanmire with the Avondhu side winning by 3-13 to 1-13. Kanturk had a 2-15 to 1-13 win over Mitchelstown with Glanworth accounting for Douglas by 2-11 to 1-5. Glanworth lined out as follows
Ciaran Cotter, Bart O’Keeffe, Eric O’Donoghue, John Blackburne, Bill Sheehan, Philip Blackburne, William Blackburne, Robert O’Driscoll 0-1, Ross Murphy, Diarmuid Colfer 0-1, Ger O’Neill 0-1 Emmet Sheehan 0-2, Shane O’Riordan 2-3 (0-2f) Martin Jackson, Michael Sheehan 0-3. Subs : Brian Gallagher for Bill Sheehan, Dave Pyne for Ger O’Neill, Alex Sheehan for Martin Jackson, Martin Jackson for Ross Murphy (inj).
Kildorrerry and Glanworth who won their first rounds were through to Round 2A. In Round 2A Kildorrery beat Glenville in Castlelyons by 1-12 to 0-11 while Glanworth accounted for Millstreet 2-15 to 1-6.
Mitchelstown were in Round 2B. In that game they had a huge win over Adrigole by 2-21 to 0-10. Mitchelstown were now in Round 3. They faced a number of Duhallow teams.
Their first outing was against Millstreet where ‘Town’ won by 1-13 to 0-11. Kildorrery who received a bye to the quarter final accounted for St Finbarr’s by 0-13 to 0-9, Mitchelstown played Ballydesmond with the game finishing all square after a good rally by Ballydesmond 1-14 each.
In the replay Mitchelstown had a twelve point win 2-19 to 1-10. Glanworth now faced Kanturk in the County semi final. Played in bad weather conditions in Buttevant Kanturk had a goal to spare 1-7 to 0- 7.
Mitchelstown’s quarter final game was against Rockchapel. After leading all through ‘Town’ were forced to hold off a brave ‘Rock’ finish to emerge winners by 1-11 to 2- 6. The semi finals were now ready with Kanturk defeating Kildorrery by 0-18 to 2- 6.
The Kildorrery team lined out as follows: Liam Kelly, Sean Kelly, Eamon O’Connor, Fintan Daly, Finbarr Stapleton, Cormac O’Baoill, Will Coffey, Shane Fitzgerald 0-1, Andrew O’Brien, James O’Sullivan 1-0, Peter O’Brien, Jerry McCarthy, Shane O’Neill 1-4 Tom Monaghan 0 1 Stephen Coughlan Subs: Darren McNamara for Fintan Daly, Dylan Kent for Will Coffey, William Fouhy for Jerry McCarthy, Richie McEniry for Stephen Coughlan.
Mitchelstown had a surprise win over Cill na Marthra in their county semi-final by 2-13 to 1-10. Cill na Marthra won the County Division 2 FL and their Under 21 A footballers reached the county final where Douglas beat them by 2-11 to 2- 6.
The county final in Pairc Ui Rinn produced a great game with Mitchelstown looking like winners when ahead by two points by the 53rd minute.
A great Kanturk rally saw them score five points in a row to emerge County champions by 0-14 to 0-13.
Mitchelstown team in the County final was Luke Hanna, Michael Maher, Fionn Herlihy, Lorcan Finn, Greg Carroll, Pa Molloy, Pat Magee, Sean Walsh 0-1,Dave Dineen, Sean O’Sullivan 0-2, Shane Cahill, Michael Walsh 0-3 (0-1f) Cathal O’Mahony 0-3 (0-1f. 0-1 ‘45) Shane Beston 0-3, James Sheehan 0-1f Subs: Liam Keane for Cathal O’Mahony Stephen Fox for Pa Molloy, Laurance O’Flynn for Pat Magee, Eoin Burke for Greg Carroll, Barry Coffey for Michael Maher, Dylan Reidy-Price for James Sheehan.
In the process Kanturk recorded County quarter final, semi final and County final wins over the three Avondhu sides in that County championship.