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Clooney/Quin 2-18 – Wolfe Tones 3-11 at Shannon
BEING THE only Division 1 game played this weekend, Clooney/Quin took advantage to move to the top of the table when they recorded their third successive victory in the league over a Wolfe Tones side that has yet to register a win in five on Thursday evening. However, far from being a routine victory for the visitors, Wolfe Tones made them work all the way before an injury-time flurry put some gloss on the final scoreline.
After Martin Duggan found the net after only ten seconds, it seemed as if it would be a comfortable for Clooney/Quin. That claim was made even stronger after Padraig Ward (3f), Mike Daffy (2), Cathal Egan and Duggan had them 1-7 to 0-4 clear early in the opening quarter.
However, Wolfe Tones would pull level by the break after the game opened up with three goals, two of them crucially going the home side’s way. Gareth McPhillips snatched the first, an effort that was cancelled out by Mike Daffy’s 25th minute goal, only for Mark Regan to lift his side to a 2-7 to 2-7 interval stalemate.
Clooney/Quin pushed clear once more on the resumption, with five points without reply from Ward, Daffy, Duggan, Fergal Lynch and Ronan Gallagher but try as they might, they were unable to shake off a stubborn Shannon side.
Daithi O’Connell’s goal allied to a Gareth McPhillips point cut the deficit to only the bare minimum entering injury-time before Cathal Egan (2) and substitute John Earls made the points safe for the new table-top- pers.
Clooney/ Quin
Damien O’Halloran, Joe O’Loughlin, Conor Harrison, Shane McNamara, Mike McNamara, Cillian Duggan, Enda Harrison, Padraig Ward (0-5 4f), Sean Conheady, Ronan Gallagher (0-2), Cathal Egan (0-3), Martin Duggan (1-3), Mike Daffy (1-3), Fergal Lynch (0-1), Daire Hannon
Subs
Adrian Fleming for Lynch, John Earls (0-1) for Conheady, Derek Ryan for E. Harrison, Peter Duggan for Hannon, Patrick Cunninghamfor O’Halloran
Wolfe Tones
Paul Hogan, Niall Murphy, Patsy Keyes, Joe McAuley, Brendan Hughes, Bobby McPhilips (0-1), Barry Loughnane, Daithi O’Connell (1-0), Shane Chambers,Aaron Cunningham(0-3), Declan O’Rourke 0-1), Mark Regan (1-2), Ronan Hehir, Gareth McPhilips (1-4, 4f), Paul Walsh
Subs
John Guilfoyle for Murphy,Alan Hehir for Walsh, John Madigan for Guilfoyle, Eamon O’Neill for Chambers
Referee
JimHickey (Cratloe)