JUNIOR SOCCER: Sligo-Leitrim & District Soccer League
DESPITE the ferocity of Storm Isha last Sunday, there were only three postponements in the Sligo-Leitrim & District Soccer League.
One of the games called off was in last Sunday’s Sligo Southern Hotel Super League as the scheduled clash of champions MCR FC and second-placed Cartron United was postponed.
Top flight leaders Gurteen Celtic recorded another win – they defeated Glenview Stars 2-0 at MacSharry Park. Shane O’Grady’s 17th minute finish put Gurteen a goal up and they doubled their advantage when Eoghan Nerney goaled after 75 minutes. This was Gurteen’s eighth win in 10 games.
Strand Celtic drew 1-1 at home with Ballymote Celtic, with the visitors securing a share of the spoils thanks to an 87th minute goal from Colm Duffy. Aaron O’Boyle’s first-half goal put Strand in front and they held this advantage until the last five minutes.
Also last Sunday, St John’s FC and Calry Bohs shared 10 goals in a 5-5 thriller at MacSharry Park. It was 3-3 at half-time. Eoin Nicholson’s goal gave Calry the lead and then St John’s replied with three goals – David Heffernan scored twice and Darragh McGoldrick also netted.
But Calry responded with goals from Eoin Stinchon and a second goal from Eoin Nicholson.
The sides couldn’t be separated in the second-half. Cian Oates put Calry back in front, 4-3, and then Darragh McGoldrick scored again to tie matters at 4-4.
St John’s edged ahead thanks to a goal from Andre Mills after 75 minutes but within two minutes Calry were level again when Benedict Nwani was on target.
Two Super League games took place on Saturday night. Former champions Carbury FC blitzed bottom of the table Real Tubber 8-0 under lights at MacSharry Park. Malachy Spratt scored a hat-trick, with Carbury’s other goals coming from Christopher Kelly (2), Cian Kilcoyne, Zach Gilligan and Mark Hannon. The winners were 2-0 ahead at half-time.
One goal was the difference in the clash of Manor Rangers and Cliffoney Celtic at the astroturf pitch in Ballisodare.
Manor Rangers won this tie – for their fourth win in 11 games – courtesy of Michael Mulholland’s 52nd minute goal from a Patrick Gilgunn assist.
IN the Sligo Pallets Premier League last weekend, two games fell foul of Storm Isha – leaders Aughanagh Celtic’s hosting of Coolaney United and Ballygawley Celtic’s home fixture against Calry Bohs Reserves.
With Aughanagh Celtic not playing there was an opportunity for second-placed Merville United to cut the gap and that’s what they did when beating Benbulben FC 2-0 at home last Sunday.
Goals from Niall Feehily and Tyler Stallard – his 21st of an outstanding campaign – set up an 11th win of the season for Merville, who are now only five points behind Aughanagh Celtic, who have a game in hand.
Ballisodare United moved up to third place in the standings following their 4-0 home hammering of Carrick Town.
The winners found the onion bag four times in the second-half – Stephen Fallon scored twice and their other goals came from Paul Scanlon and Adam Grace.
Two Premier League games took place last Saturday night. Dromahair FC won 3-1 against Valley Rovers at Cleveragh’s astroturf pitch.
The winners scored through Stephen Mullan,
RESULTS
Played on Friday, January 19
Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Cup
QUARTER-FINAL: Gurteen Celtic 4, Manor Rangers 0
Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Shield
QUARTER-FINAL: Ballisodare United 1, Real Tubber 2
Played on Saturday, January 20
Sligo Southern Hotel Super League
ROUND 14: Real Tubber 0, Carbury FC 8;
Manor Rangers 1, Cliffoney Celtic 0
Sligo Pallets Premier League
ROUND 18: Valley Rovers 1, Dromahair FC 3; Strand Celtic Reserves 2, Kilglass-Enniscrone United 2
Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Cup
QUARTER-FINAL: Glenview Stars 4, Yeats United 1
RESULTS
Played on Sunday, January 21
Sligo Southern Hotel Super League
ROUND 14: Strand Celtic 1, Ballymote Celtic 1; St John’s FC 5, Calry Bohs 5; MCR FC P Cartron United P; Gurteen Celtic 2, Glenview Stars 0
Sligo Pallets Premier League
ROUND 18: Merville United 2,
Benbulben FC 0; Ballygawley Celtic P Calry Bohs Reserves P; Ballisodare United 4, Carrick Town 0; Aughanagh Celtic P Coolaney United P
Connacht Football Association Women’s Shield
PRELIMINARY ROUND: Straide & Foxford
United (Mayo) P Arrow Harps P
FIXTURES
Friday, January 26
Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Cup SEMI-FINALS: Kilglass-Enniscrone
United v Gurteen Celtic (Astroturf pitch, Ballisodare, 8.15pm) (TBC); Arrow Harps v Glenview Stars (MacSharry Park, 7pm) (TBC)
Saturday, January 27
Sligo Southern Hotel Super League
ROUND 15: Carbury FC v St John’s FC (MacSharry Park, 7pm) (G Gilmartin)
Sligo Pallets Premier League
ROUND 19: Dromahair FC v Aughanagh
Celtic (7.30pm) (M Irwin)
Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Shield
SEMI-FINALS: Ballymote Celtic v Valley Rovers (MacSharry Park, 11am) (TBC); Calry Bohs v Real Tubber (MacSharry Park, 2pm) (TBC)
FIXTURES
First named team has home advantage unless otherwise stated. The referee for each fixture is denoted in brackets.
Sunday, January 28
Sligo Southern Hotel Super League
ROUND 15 – GAMES START AT 11AM: Glenview Stars v Manor Rangers (O McLoughlin); Cliffoney Celtic v MCR FC (T Butler); Cartron United v Real Tubber (P McLoughlin); Calry Bohs v Strand Celtic (S Fallon); Ballymote Celtic v Arrow Harps (S McGarry)
Sligo Pallets Premier League
ROUND 19 – GAMES START AT 11AM: Strand Celtic Reserves v Merville United (J Griffin); KilglassEnniscrone United v Valley Rovers (C Gunning); Coolaney United v Ballisodare United (M Farrell); Carrick Town v Ballygawley Celtic (J McMorrow); Calry Bohs Reserves v Benbulben FC (D Basquille)
BIT O’FACES: Sligo Rovers fans at The Showgrounds on Saturday last for the pre-season friendly against Derry City. Rovers won 5-4, with new signing Ellis Chapman scoring a hat-trick.
who converted a penalty, Shaun Conlon and Peter Cogan. Michael McCormack scored for Valley Rovers, who had a player sent off because Jack Ozboinski picked up two bookings. Strand Celtic Reserves drew 2-2 with Kilglass-Enniscrone United at astroturf pitch in The Showgrounds.
It was 2-1 in favour of Strand Celtic Reserves at half-time. Their first-half goals came from Thomas Lee and Jared Tiernan.
In between these goals for the Strandhill outfit was Joseph Dunphy’s goal for KilglassEnniscrone United. Kilglass-Enniscrone United drew level thanks to a goal after 65 minutes from Oisin Finnerty.
The number of goals scored by Malachy Spratt for Carbury FC in their defeat of Real Tubber.
LAST weekend saw two quarter-finals in the Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Cup. Gurteen Celtic were 4-0 winners over Manor Rangers at MacSharry Park on Friday last. Katie Walsh and Katie Hannon each scored twice.
The following day, Saturday, league champions Glenview Stars booked a semi-final slot thanks to a 4-1 win over Yeats United at MacSharry Park.
Ruth Monaghan put Yeats ahead with a goal after 24 minutes and this was cancelled out 16 minutes later by Glenview’s Sarah O’Boyle.
Glenview then assumed control in the second-half with goals from Dahanna Feeney, Mollie Costello and Michaela Gaffney.
Aughanagh Celtic Merville Utd Ballisodare Utd Coolaney Utd Ballygawley Celtic Benbulben FC Dromahair FC
Calry Bohs Res Strand Celtic Res Kilglass-E’crone Utd Valley Rovers Carrick Town
Glenview Stars Gurteen Celtic Arrow Harps Kilglass-E’crone Utd Yeats Utd
Manor Rangers Ballymote Celtic Valley Rovers Ballisodare Utd Calry Bohs
Real Tubber
Carrick Town
TOP SCORERS
P W D LFA Diff 14 13 0 1 49 20 +29 15 11 1 3 52 31 +21 13 9 1 3 42 24 +18 14 9 0 5 48 29 +19 15 9 0 6 40 30 +10 17 8 1 8 56 45 +11 18 7 0 11 52 66 -14 15 6 2 7 43 44 -1 17 5 3 9 40 44 -4 17 4 3 10 36 46 -10 15 5 0 10 27 55 -28 16 1 1 14 16 67 -51
P W D 11 10 1 11 8 0 11 7 1 11 7 1 11 5 2 11 5 1 11 5 0 11 4 2 11 3 2 11 3 2 11 3 0 11 0 0
L 0 3 3 3 4 5 a6 5 6 6 8 11
F 39 48 38 31 27 25 26 23 13 15 19 0
A 6 13 20 31 22 27 36 28 26 31 31 32
Diff +33 +35 +18 0 +5 -2 -10 -5 -13 -16 -12 -33
Pts 39 34 28 27 27 25 21 20 18 15 15 4
Pts 31 24 22 22 17 16 15 14 11 11 9 0
SUPER LEAGUE
9 GOALS: Jake Drewe (Glenview Stars); 8 GOALS: Donal Gallagher (Cartron United); 7 GOALS: Dylan Martin (Strand Celtic), Dylan Walsh (Gurteen Celtic); 6 GOALS: Darragh McGoldrick (St John’s FC), Malachy Spratt (Carbury FC), Thomas Sweeney (Gurteen Celtic), Ben Tuohy (Arrow Harps).
PREMIER LEAGUE
21 GOALS: Tyler Stallard (Merville United); 12 GOALS: Daniel Watters (Benbulben FC); 11 GOALS: Alan Kavanagh (Dromahair FC); 9 GOALS: Oisin Gilmartin (Benbulben FC), Ronan Martin (Kilglass-Enniscrone United), Stephen Mullan (Dromahair FC), Sean Stenson (Coolaney United).
WOMEN’S LEAGUE
18 GOALS: Katie Walsh (Gurteen Celtic); 15 GOALS: Sarah O’Boyle (Glenview Stars), Tara Phillips (Gurteen Celtic); 13 GOALS: Shona Mahon (Real Tubber); 11 GOALS: Simone Moss (Arrow Harps); 9 GOALS: Orla Devaney (Arrow Harps); 8 GOALS: Tara Hastings (Kilglass-Enniscrone United).
THERE was one quarter-final played last Friday in the Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Shield as Real Tubber won 2-1 away to Ballisodare United. All three goals came in the second-half.
Shona Mahon put Real Tubber in front and then Sinead Casey equalised for the home side. Ellen Kelleher scored in the 80th minute to restore Real Tubber’s lead and this proved to be the difference.
The Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Cup semi-finals take place tomorrow, Friday, with Arrow Harps up against Glenview Stars at MacSharry Park (7pm) and Kilglass-Enniscrone United taking on Gurteen Celtic in Ballisodare (8.15pm).
Saturday sees the Sligo Bay Lobsters Women’s Shield semi-finals at MacSharry Park. Ballymote Celtic face Valley Rovers (11am) and this is followed by the meeting of Calry Bohs and Real Tubber (2pm).
Elsewhere, Arrow Harps were scheduled to travel to Mayo’s Straide & Foxford United in a Connacht Football Association Women’s Shield fixture (preliminary round) last Sunday – this game was postponed.