Colleary bags vital winning score

TWO late points from Sean

Power and Niall Colleary rescued Drumcliffe-Rosses Point as they ground out a one-point win over a gritty Geevagh, 0-12 to 1-8, in this Homeland Senior Football Championship Group Two first round game at Connolly Park on Saturday last.

Kevin Henry’s third pointed free at the Collooney venue looked to have set up Geevagh for an unforeseen win – after all this was the team that survived the drop from last year’s top tier up against the club that nearly won it.

The return of Pat Hughes also boosted a Geevagh team who were narrowly ahead at the break, 1-4 to 0-6.

Joseph O’Reilly netted Geevagh’s goal in the seventh minute – from a Hughes pass – as the losers went four points up at one stage in the opening period. Converted frees from Eoin Gaughan and Paul Logan before the interval kept DrumcliffeRosses Point’s hopes intact – Logan’s effort from out near the sideline was an immense score for last year’s Owen B Hunt Cup runners-up. Indeed, Gaughan and Logan, with five points each overall, certainly made a difference for Fergal O’Flaherty’s side, with Joseph O’Reilly supplying 1-2 to Geevagh’s total. Drumcliffe-Rosses Point went ahead for the first time in the 44th minute and they later moved two points clear, 0-10 to 1-5.

But a hat-trick of points from Geevagh, all of them frees by Kevin Henry, put John Hughes’ men back in the ascendancy – until Drumcliffe-Rosses Point’s late escape. Geevagh will feel that they deserved at least a draw.