FL Div 2: Duleek Bellewstown maintain push for promotion
April 24, 2017
Anthony Burke Duleek Bellewstown
Duleek/Bellewstown 0-13 Castletown 0-11
Duleek/Bellewstown maintained their push for promotion back to Division 1 with a hard fought 13 - 11 pts win over a well organised Castletown side, under the guidance of former Meath stalwart Hank Traynor.
Jamie Crosby opened the scoring with a pointed free on 6 mins with Micheal Dowling following up with a point from play, before the visitors hit a purple patch with 3 unanswered pts to take the lead on 15 mins. Johnny Flood then levelled proceedings & Darren Heeney restored the lead with well taken pts from play before the 2 teams traded pts from frees. Sub Johnny McDonnell lead the way with 2 successive pts on the run, to push DB into a commanding 3 pts lead before both teams traded further pointed frees to leave the hosts 8 - 5 pts up the interval.
Scores were hard come by at the start of the 2nd half when Castletown brought DB back to the bare minimum with 2 pts from play on the 40 & 43 mins. In fact it took DB all of 16 mins before they finally made the breakthrough with 2 further points from the industrious Johnny McDonnell. The visitors hit back with a point before Shane Crosby & substitute Mark Collins scored 2 outstanding points to leave daylight between the teams. However, Castletown responded with 2 unanswered pts to leave it anyone's game and despite a siege on DB's goalmouth they managed to hold out with some heroic defending, ably lead by full back Brian Moore & saves from goalie Anthony Dowling.
The contest was finally settled with a pulsating run from Robin Clarke which lead to a smashing point from sub Anto Burke with the last kick of the ball on 66 mins.
This result puts Duleek Bellewstown joint tops with Ratoath in Division 2 after 6 matches.
Duleek Bellewstown: A. Dowling, D. Teeling, B. Moore, S. Townley, J. Murphy, D. Moore, G. Reilly, S. Crosby 0-1, R. Clarke, J. Flood capt 0-2, E. Byrne, J. Crosby 0-2, D. Heeney 0-1, M. Dowling 0-1, C. Flynn. Subs used J. McDonnell 0-4, M. Collins 0-1, C. Dunne, A. Burke 0-1, S. McArdle, G. Martin.
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