O'Mahonys  2-18 Dunderry 5-9

Thursday evening saw the first team hurlers travel to Dunderry to face the team top in the league. Dunderry were first to get off the mark, scoring two points in quick succession in the opening 5 minutes. O’Mahonys first score of the match came from a Cormac Keyes free. Three minutes later, Finn Malone found the back of the net. Keyes followed this up with another point, this time from play. The next fifteen minutes saw a quiet enough spell from O’Mahonys in which Dunderry managed to score a further three points. From an O’Mahonys perspective, highlights in this quarter included some great defensive work from Ben McEntaggart and Cormac O’Shea, with goalkeeper John Foley pulling off a brilliant save. A great score from play by Evan Brady was the final O’Mahonys score of the half. At half time the bare minimum separated the teams.

Half time score: Navan O’Mahonys: 1-04 (7) Dunderry 0-06 (6)

O’Mahonys got out of the blocks stronger in the second half despite losing Cormac Keyes and Conor Dwyer at half-time. This saw the introduction of Jack Flynn and Peter McLoughlin. Malone, Seán McDermott and two Jack Walsh frees saw the O’Mahonys lead extend to 5 points. Seven minutes into the half, some brilliant team-work saw Malone raise the green flag. Walsh and Malone exchanged points in the following 2 minutes and Flynn added his name to the scoresheet. Dunderry found their way into the game again scoring two points. The next five minutes saw the teams exchange scores multiple times; a Walsh 65’ followed by a Dunderry goal, a McDermott point and a great point from centre-back; Sam Formosa. Dunderry found the back of the net again, although a Walsh free kept O'Mahonys ahead by seven with ten minutes of ordinary time to play. Both teams raised white flags in the next 8 minutes with Malone responsible for the O’Mahonys score. Despite some excellent initial defending from Dermot McKenna and Thomas Cully, and Michael Reavey, Dunderry were able to raise another green flag. A Walsh free meant that at the end of normal time, O’Mahonys were 5 points ahead. This was added to by a Jack McConnell point a minute into injury time. Despite many players helping out defensively including Eoghan Nugent, Walsh and Brady, two late Dunderry goals saw the final score at 2-18 to 5-9.

O’Mahonys: John Foley, Thomas Cully, Ben McEntaggart, Michael Reavey, Cormac O’Shea, Sam Formosa (0-01), Dermot McKenna, Jack McConnell (0-01), Evan Brady (0-01), Jack Walsh (0-6, 1f, 1 65’), Eoghan Nugent, Cormac Keyes (0-03, 2f), Finn Malone (2-03), Conor Dwyer, Seán McDermott (0-02)

Subs used: Jack Flynn (0-01) for Keyes, Peter McLoughlin for Dwyer (both half time)

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