STRONG SECOND HALF SETS CLYDA ROVERS ON THEIR WAY TO VICTORY

Clyda Rovers 1-11 Mitchelstown 1-7

Clyda Rovers with a good second half showing ran out worthy winners over Mitchelstown in the Rebel Og Div 1 Under 19 FL at Mitchelstown on Wednesday evening. The opening stages saw Mitchelstown start at a blistering pace with Bobby Baker, Ryan Donegan, Stephen Kenneally, Dillon Sheehan and Kevin Cotter making an early impression.

Kevin Cotter got the scoring underway when he netted for the home side in the 3rd minute. It helped them hold a 1-2 to no score cushion by the 6th minute. Clyda Rovers recovered well from this early setback. David Cooney, Cian Walsh and Kevin Graham with points got them right back into the fray as they trailed by 1-3 to 0-3 by the end of the first quarter. Stephen Kenneally responded with a free for Mitchelstown but it was Clyda Rovers that were exerting most of the pressure at this stage. Good work by Kevin Graham resulted in Cian Walsh kicking a fine point. David Cooney added another point for the Mourneabbey side before the half-time whistle as they trailed 1-4 to 0-5 at the interval.

On the changeover, despite Mitchelstown reeling off two splendid points by Dillon Sheehan and Kevin Cotter that increased their lead to four points by the 36th minute, it was Clyda Rovers that dominated the remainder of the game with Kieran Buckley, Patrick Ryan, Rowan Doherty, Kevin Graham, Cian Walsh, David Cooney and Cathal Corbett very much to the fore. Some well worked movements resulted in David Cooney getting the next four points before they hit the front in the 50th minute when Kevin Graham scored a fine point. In the 53rd minute they increased their advantage to two points when Cathal Corbett pointed and they followed with a goal two minutes later when Rowan Doherty and Cian Walsh linked up very well to set up Cathal Corbett for a well taken goal that helped seal the issue.

Scorers for Clyda Rovers : David Cooney 0-6 (0-4f) Cathal Corbett 1-1, Cian Walsh 0-2, Kevin Graham 0-2.

Mitchelstown: Kevin Cotter 1-3 (0-1f) Leon Murphy 0-1f, Stephen Kenneally 0-1f, Dillon Sheehan 0-1, Ryan Donegan 0-1.

CLYDA ROVERS: James Brown, Rhys Deane, Kieran Buckley, Richard Murray, Niall Burke, Patrick Ryan, Cian Dennehy, Rowan Doherty, Kevin Graham, Tom Barrett, Cian Walsh, Michael Murphy, Conor Murphy, David Cooney, Cathal Corbett, Subs Denis O’Mahony for Michael Murphy, Jacob Cahill for Tom Barrett, Aaron O’Callaghan for Conor Murphy.

MITCHELSTOWEN: Tadgh Nolan, Oisin Hanrahan, Eoin Geary, Adam Barry, Oisin Morrissey, Ryan Donegan, Bobby Baker, Stephen Kenneally, Leon Murphy, Colin McNamara, Dillon Sheehan, Eoin Flynn, Paul Flynn, Kevin Cotter, Adam O’Grady. Sub David Conroy for Stephen Kenneally (inj).

Referee Pa O’Driscoll (Bride Rovers).