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Clonlara 0-20 – Kilmaley 0-05 at Clooney
AND SO it came to pass. The perfect year of a clean sweep of league and championship honours that encompassed a 15 match winning run was finally realised on Saturday. Even the dogs around Clonlara could have told you that the title was destined for the club, especially after romping to the Junior A league.
And while this wasn’t their most impressive of displays this year, particularly in the opening period when only holding a 0-7 to 0-3 advantage, having benefitted from the aid of a strong breeze, once they opened up on the turnover it was merely a matter of how much the winning margin would eventually be.
Kilmaley for their part, fought the good fight in the opening half but against such a clinical outfit, they simply needed to take every opportunity and missed frees ultimately proved costly, six in the first half alone.
That said, it’s unlikely it would have mattered to the overall result as Clonlara were devastating in the second half with Barry Moloney unerring through frees while captain Alan O’Connell tacked on three points to cap off another masterful display.
Junior A championship beware.
Clonlara
Patrick Stritch, Patrick Conlon, Fergal
Barron, Owen Hackett, Patrick Clancy, Brian Woods, Ronan Carey, Diarmuid O’Meara (0-1 s/l), Barry Moloney (0-9f), Harry Horgan, Jason Murphy (0-1), Michael Collins, Ryan Morris (0-2), Paul Barry (0-2),Alan O’Connell (0-4)
Subs
Kieran Murphy for Clancy,TomBegley (0-1) for Horgan, Kenneth Haskett for Collins, Eoin Meehan for Conlon, Padraig Hession for Morris
Kilmaley
Eoin Meehan, ColmLynch, James Murphy, Darragh McMahon, Jacko Neylon (0-1), Gerard O’Sullivan, Sean Hogan, Ciaran O’Loughlin, DavidTalty, John McMahon, Dick Pyne, Darragh Gregan (0-1), Eamon Bracken (0-1), Gerry Kennedy (0-2), Dermot Queally
Subs
James O’Rourke for Queally, Eibhear Slattery for Pyne, Shane O’Malley for O’Loughlin, Dermot Maher for J. McMahon, Flan Queally for Talty
Man of the Match
Barry Moloney (Clonlara) Referee Michael Fitzgerald (Ballyea)