WICKLOW ROVERS
Our Leinster Senior team travelled to take on Balbriggan in the third round of the FAI Junior Cup and had to go through a nerve-racking penalty shootout before progressing to the fourth round.
The game went to extra-time after normal time ended all square at 2-2.
Rovers went in front with a Daniel Tarcevskis goal, but the home side roared back with two goals to go in front.
Rovers kept knocking on the door and were rewarded in injury time when Theo Smyth levelled. Extra time failed to separate the sides, so it was on to penalties in which Rovers came out on top winning 5-4 after Ian Brannigan, Adam Cox, Aidan Small, Tom Smullen and Dylan Orr were all successful with their spot kicks.
Our Wicklow League side took on one of the title favourites St Peters on Sunday, this young side gave a good account of themselves despite going down 3-1. In a quiet opening quarter, the game exploded into life when Ian Murphy was called upon in the Rovers goal to pull off two excellent saves.
The lads had a couple of half chances to take the lead but were off target. The lads battled well against the more experienced St Peters team and this type of game will stand to the lads in the future. Luca Rampersaud hit the Rovers goal on the day for his first of the season.
Midweek junior action saw our under-15s record an excellent 3-2 win over Roundwood at Whitegates on Thursday night.
This was an exciting encounter as the lads edged out the visitors. Both teams played their part in a thriller, goal scorers for Rovers on the night were Robert Cherry, James Fagan and Rory Hannon in what was a good all-round team performance.
On Friday night the under-12As played out a scoreless draw with Ashford Rovers, the second time this season both these sides couldn’t be separated as their previous encounter ended scoreless as well.
Saying that it proved to be an exciting match with both teams going for it, the lads probably had the better chances but the Ashford defence held firm.
Weekend junior action saw the 12Bs go down 2-0 away to