The Nire were the first team to book their passage
to the knockout stages of this years championship when they had a comfortable
1-13 to 1-5 win over County Champions Ballinacourty. A Mark Ferncombe goal from
a penalty just five minutes into the game cancelled out two early points for
the victors, but the champions never capitalised on the score and there was
only going to be one winner on the day. A Seamus Lawlor goal on eleven minutes
helped The Nire to a 1-9 to 1-1 half time lead, and while The Nire eased up
somewhat in the second half, Ballinacourty having introduced Gary Hurney who
helped improve the look of the Ballinacourty side, had left themselves with too
much to do.
The second game on Saturday afternoon saw Clashmore
record a comfortable 2-10 to 0-9 win over Dungarvan. Early goals from Cillian O’Keeffe
and Sean Fleming set them on their way and lead 2-5 to 0-4 at the break. Clashmore
after establishing a good early lead seemed to pull up somewhat at the break
and you can’t but feel if they had to, they could have won this game by an even
greater margin.
Three games were played on Friday evening. Saint
Saviours and Rathgormack clashed at Kill. Saint Saviours went into this game
having lost their two games to date and ended their loosing run here against a
Rathgormack side who had won their two previous games. Both sides on the night
settled for a draw, having also been inseparable at the break.
Two games were played at Fraher Field on Friday
evening. Ardmore and Gaultier fought out the first game. First half goals from
Kenny Murphy and Seamus Prendergast helped Armore to a 2-5 to 0-6 lead and when
underage international rugby international Seamus Keating added a third in the
second half there was no doubting as to what the final outcome of the game
would be.
Stradbally’s recent run of good results over
neighbours Kilrossanty continues after the two clashed in the second game at
Fraher Field on Friday evening. When Stradbally play you can always expect a
low scoring tight affair to be fought out and this game was no different. At
the break Stradbally that lead 0-4 to 0-2, and while Kilrossanty faired out
slightly better in the second thirty minutes they were unable to edge out the
Cove-Men at the end of the hour who had one point to spare.
Owing to An Rinn’s involvement at the Comórtas Peil
competition in Donegal, their game with Brickeys did not go ahead this weekend
and will be slotted in between rounds four and five.
Results from the past weekend
The Nire 1-13 Ballinacourty 1-5
Clashmore 2-10 Dungarvan 0-9
Saint Saviours 0-9 Rathgormack 0-9
Stradbally 0-8 Kilrossanty 0-7
Ardmore 3-10 Gaultier 0-11.
League Tables
Group One
The Nire 3 3 0 0 +33 6
Rathgormack 3 2 1 0 +6 5
Ardmore 3 2 0 1 0 4
Ballinacourty 3 1 0 2 -1 2
St Saviours 3 0 1 2 -18 1
Gaultier 3 0 0 3 -20 0
Group Two
Clashmore 3 3 0 0 +16 6
Stradbally 3 2 0 1 +15 4
An Rinn 2 2 0 0 +8 4
Kilrossanty 3 1 0 2 +1 2
Brickeys 2 0 0 2 -11 0
Dungarvan 3 0 0 3 -29 0
Next Fixtures 29 June at 7-30pm
Ardmore V Rathgormack in Kill
Saint Saviours V The Nire in
Kilmacthomas
Gaultier V Ballinacourty in Walsh
Park
An Rinn V Clashmore in Ardmore
Dungarvan V Kilrossanty in Stradbally
Brickeys V Stradbally in Lemybrien
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