Simonstown 2—15 Skryne 1—11
Both teams needed the League points on offer and were in attack mode from the first whistle. Aaron Farrelly opened the home teams account in the third minute with a well taken point from play. Skyrnes Niall Finnerty replied with low drive to net to put his team ahead on five minutes. Smonstown became dominant and scored six (6) in row without reply. Aaron Farrelly (2),David McKeever(2),Eoghan Gough and Padraig McKeever all hitting the target to put Simos 0--7 To 1—0 up at the end of first quarter.
The Tara men then tagged on five points while Michael Gavin, Eoghan Gough and Andrew Kearney replied for Simons. The Navan men can be thankfull to Robbie Burlingham who brought off a wonderfull save just before the whistle sounded as the led by two 0--10 to 1—5 at the break.
Skryne started with a blitz of four points to Padraig McKeevers one for the Navan men to put the Tara men in the 0—11 to 1—9 with 8 second half minutes on the clock. Gordons Wards men upped intensity which resulted in two Padraig McKeever points. Sub Luke Caffrey returning after injury was fouled while bearing down on goal, took the penalty himself and finished neatly. This put Simons into a four point lead 1—13 to 1—9. Andrew Kearney then added more two points to Simonstowns tally. Luke Caffrey laid a fine pass into the square to the in running Shane McEnery who collected and blasted to the net. Skryne added two more points in injury time as Simons ran out winners 2—15 to 1—11. Congrats to another young man Cody Chinchilla who made his senior debut in this game.
Simonstown
Robbie.Burlingham...Mark Gardiner,Briain Conlon,Mark Devlin.....Aaron Chinchilla,Josh Carolan,Jimmy Heaney...
Sean Conlon, Michael Gavin (0—1)...David McKeever (0—2), Andrew Kearney (0—3)2f, Tadgh Hanrahan....
Padraig McKeever (0—4)2f, Eoghan Gough (0—2), Aaron Farrelly (0—3)....
Subs* David Kavanagh / T.Hanrahan...Luke Caffrey (1—0)p /A.Farrelly....Shane McEnery (1—0) / P.McKeever...Cody Chinchilla /M.Gardiner...Peter Duffy / M.Gavin.
