Simonstown 0—10 Seneschalstown 0--12
Tuesday night saw Simonstown and Seneschalstwon second teams do battle in Seneschalstwon in even worse condition than on Monday night for Senior teams.
Rian Alder opened the scoring with a point from a free in fifth minute but the hosts drew level in thirteenth. Colin Wickham strode forward from midfield to put the visitors 0—2 to 0—1 up. Eoin Keane pointed and Rian Alder converted a two point free to put Simons 0--5 to 0--2 ahead . The home team got three on the trot to level at 0—5 to 0—5 with two first half minutes to play.Cian Newman then put the Navan men 0--6 to 0—5 up on the stroke of half time.
Seneschalstown with more favourable wind and rain conditions early in second half converting 2 x 2point frees and another 0--1f to put them 0--11 to 0--6 in front with ten played..Fionn O Hanluain from play and the host from play made 0—12 to 0—7 with twelve minutes to play.The Navan men rallied and Conor Harding ,Fionn O Hanluain and the returning Nathan O Brien all raised white flags to complete the scoring. Resolute defending and shortage of time saw Sensechalstown hold on to win o—12 to 0--10.
****Simons; Robbie Burlingham..Darragh Dooner, Liam Purvis, Eoghan Foley...Jamie Keane, Jimmy Heaney, David Kavanagh...Colin Wickham 0—1, Peter Duffy...Fionn O Hanluain 0—2, Cian Newman 0—1, MacKenzie Doyle...Rian Alder 0—3 (1x2F. 0—1), Eoin Keane 0—1, David Barry...
Subs; Conor Harding 0—1...Nathan O Brien 0—1..Anthony McDonagh..Mikey McDonagh..Kyle Gallagher..
Credit to Jim McCabe for the report
Credit to Jim McCabe for the report