Prolific marksman McGonigle retains Golden Boot

ANGLESEY-BASED striker Corrig McGonigle has picked up the Welsh Alliance Division One Golden Boot award for the second successive season.

McGonigle found the net 43 times in league games only for Conwy Borough this term and scored 59 in all competitions.

The Llansadwrn hitman grabbed 37 league goals from open play and struck six times from the penalty spot.

He finished 13 goals ahead of runner-up Sam Jones of Greenfield.

Last season saw McGonigle also finish top scorer in the division with Glantraeth, netting 41 in the league and 59 overall for the island club.

McGonigle has won back-to-back league titles with Borough and Glantraeth, who folded last summer due to lack of players after refusing promotion to the Huws Gray Alliance, but are set to return to North Wales football for the 2018-19 campaign.

This season saw Boro land not only the league title, but also the FAW Trophy and Cookson Cup to complete a treble.

They are now Huws Gray Alliance-bound.

McGonigle won the Bob Brodie Trophy for the top marksman in Anglesey senior football in 2015-16 and 2016-17, netting 64 and 59 times for Pentraeth and Glantraeth respectively, but is not eligible this season.

This time around, Caergybi’s Gary Jo Owen and James Ryan of Bryngwran Bulls are almost neck-and-neck entering the closing fixtures of the season.