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PARTEEN may have beaten Broad- ford twice in last season’s champion- ship, but they’ll remember Broadford for a very different reason this term — Glenomora Park may well have sounded the death knell of their championship hopes as they were taken apart by a rampant Whitegate team on a balmy Saturday after- noon.
Both sides needed something from this game after first round losses, but it was Whitegate who steamed to victory to finally ignite their cham- pionship challenge after a shock first round exit to Ennistymon.
It was over at half-time really as Whitegate built up a 2-9 to 0-6 lead, having slipped into an early two- point deficit after Colm Quinn and Dara Yelverton found the range for Parteen.
However, Whitegate never really looked back once they settled with points from George Waterstone and Brendan Bugler by the sev- enth minute. Then goals from Pat Minogue and George Waterstone in the ninth and 22nd minutes effective- ly killed Parteen’s challenge.
Minogue profited from clever play by Terence Fahy to score the first, while Waterstone’s was a brilliant individual effort when he slalomed past three Parteen defenders to put Whitegate on the high road.
There was more to come from Wa- terstone and company in the second half, while before the break Terence Fahy, Eric Minogue and Stephen Malone extended their lead to nine points.
By this stage Parteen had lost their most potent forward Dara Yelverton
with a hand injury, while their last point of the first half came from Ivan Conway in the 17th minute.
It got no better for Parteen in the second half as Whitegate piled on the misery, outscoring their opponents by 2-11 to 1-1 over the half hour. The
first goal came five minutes in when Waterstone again sauntered through the Parteen defence and hammered to the net.
Ivan Conway hit back with a goal for Parteen inside 30 seconds, but any hopes that this strike might kickstart
a storming comeback were quickly extinguished inside another 30 sec- onds when Terence Fahy kicked to the net from close range.
From there on it was a canter, while Parteen’s misery was completed when sub Padraig O’Doherty was
red carded.
Whitegate reeled off seven unan- swered points from Terence Fahy, Pat Minogue, Brendan Bugler (2), Michael O’Brien (2) and Raymond CFT TIE
James Long registered Parteen’s last score in the 52nd minute but before the end Whitegate moved through the gears once more to score four more points before the end.
Whitegate’s championship 1s final- ly up and running, even though they now face an 11-week hibernation.