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Inagh/Kilnamona 0-16 – Clooney/Quin 0-12 at Clooney
THE COMPETITION for two semifinal places from Division 1 became a four horse race on Sunday as Inagh/Kilnamona kept their hopes alive with a four point victory. With two games to play against Tulla and Whitegate, the Combo gave themselves a fighting chance of grabbing one of those spots but will need to win both and hope that others lose in order to guarantee a last four spot.
Still, they will be delighted with victory here considering the list of absentees that included Eamonn Glynn, Conor Tierney, Cathal Lafferty, Tomás Kelly, Eoin and Haulie Vaughan while Clooney/Quin were also without Fergal Lynch, Cathal Egan and Brian Shally to name but a few.
Inagh/Kilnamona took the game to their opponents early on and with Niall and Ger Arthur sharing the scoring duties, they held a 0-9 to 06 half-time lead. That advantage was stretched to eight as the second half developed but there was a late kick in the home side and after reducing the deficit to four, they might have made the climax very nervy for the visitors only for Cillian Duggan’s late 20 metre free to be stopped by goalkeeper Patrick Kelly.
It meant that Inagh/Kilnamona have something tangible to play for this weekend while Clooney/Quin will have to settle for a mid-table finish.
Inagh/ Kilnamona
Patrick Kelly, Milo Keane, Brian Glynn, Dermot Lynch, Ronan O’Looney, David Hegarty, ColmPilkington, Paul O’Looney, Brian Foudy, StephenToomey, Niall Arthur, Damien Lafferty, Cathal Griffin, Dermot Gannon, Ger Arthur
Subs
Johnny Cullinan for Toomey,Alan Mullins for Gannon,TomMcConigley for C. Griffin
Clooney/ Quin
Damien O’Halloran,Tony McMahon, Conor Harrison, Joe O’Loughlin, Donnacha Murphy, Sean Conheady, Shane McNamara, Padraig Ward, Mike McNamara, Seamus Conroy, Enda Harrison, Martin Duggan, Mike Daffy,Adrian Fleming, John Earls
Subs
Cillian Duggan for McMahon, Daire Hannon for Conroy, Ger Leamy for Ward
Man of the Match
Paul O’Looney (Inagh/ Kilnamona) Referee Michael Troy (Broadford)