Brosna the only Division 3 team with two wins

ONLY one team has a 100% record after two games, that being North Kerry side and former All-Ireland Junior Club champions Brosna.

Whether you consider them beating Ballydonoghue to be a surprise is a matter of opinion. However what was surprising was the manner of their win, a 15 point success away from home as they restricted the hosts to only 2-3 on the day. The first 20 minutes or so were pretty even between the sides but a run of five unanswered points from the visitors before half-time helped them to an 0-8 to 1-2 lead at half-time.

When Mike Finnegan got Brosna’s first goal early in the second period they never looked back from there and eventually went on to a 2-15 to 2-3 success with Flor McAuliffe, Adam Barry and Tom McGoldrick quite impressive in their win.

Below them in the table five teams are unbeaten with Annascaul, Ballymacelligott, Dromid Pearses, Finuge and Na Gaeil all on three points. Annascaul had seven points to spare over Gneeveguilla in a 1-15 to 1-8 home success in Paddy Kennedy Memorial Park. An Emmett Kennedy goal in the first-half gave them a lead of 1-8 to 0-4 at the break as Jason Hickson scored nine points on the day for the victors with Con Buckley scoring a penalty for the East Kerry side in the second period.

Nine points in each half, meanwhile, was the key to Ballymac shading a ‘nip and tuck’ game away to fellow promoted side Fossa by 0-18 to 1-13. Tadgh O’Shea scored the only goal of the game for Fossa after five minutes to give them 1-8 to 0-9 lead at half-time but Aidan Breen was key to the visitors on the scoring front as two late points with the teams level approaching the end deciding it in Ballymac’s favour.

The other promoted side Na Gaeil managed 2-18 meanwhile in a strong 12 point victory away to St Senans. They had nine points also in the first half in Mountcoal, Darragh Carmody scoring well as a Paudie Quille goal kept Senans in touch at half-time trailing by 0-9 to 1-3. Carmody scored the first of the Tralee side’s two goals in their 2-18 to 2-6 success, Quille scoring a second in consolation for the hosts near the end.

St Senans along with Gneeveguilla are the only sides not to have any points from the two rounds so far as two goals were the difference between Dromid Pearses and Laune Rangers down south. Dylan O’Donoghue impressed in Dromid’s 2-13 to 0-13 win as a combination of Graham O’Sullivan, Niall O’Shea and Chris Farley (scorer) combined for their first goal and a lead of 1-8 to 0-6 at half-time. The lead would have been more only for a saved penalty by Laune Rangers goalkeeper Tony Lyons as the introduction of John Sheehan and Mike Frank Russell in the second period failed to alter matters for the visitors.

O’Donoghue scored Dromid second goal in a six-point success as they travel up to Fossa in the next round.

Finuge, meanwhile, got the better of St Michaels/Foilmore by 1-12 to 1-11 following their draw with the Killorglin side on the opening day as they face Gneeveguilla next, seven years after both clubs faced each other in an Intermediate decider.

St Michaels/Foilmore and Rangers will both be looking for their first wins when the Killorglin side head south again in Round Three with Brosna at home to Annascaul, Ballymac hosting St Senans and Ballydonoghue travelling to Tralee to face Na Gaeil the other fixtures in the Division come the weekend of April 9.