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Clooney/Quin 1-19 – Clarecastle 2-11 at Páirc Uí hAonghusa, Clooney
MEANINGLESS IN terms of advancement or relegation to the home side but it mattered to Clarecastle who may yet be dragged back into the relegation mix if Wolfe Tones win their remaining game on Wednesday. In the end, it was two purple patches that secured victory as they bounced back from an early three point deficit to hit eight points without reply in a nine minute period midway through the half on their way to a 0-11 to 0-04 half-time lead.
And with Tyrone Kearse and Jonathan Clancy leading the comeback rally for the Magpies on the restart, when grabbing five out of the first seven points, a 43rd minute Adrian Fleming opportunistic goal put the skids on the visitors fightback and initiated another scoring spree of four successive points to lead by 11 by the 52nd minute.
Clarecastle did rally with goals from substitute Sean Talty and a Kearse 20 metre free but the damage was already done as Clooney/Quin finished the league on a positive note while the Magpies will have to sweat it out until Wednesday at least.
Clooney/ Quin
Damien O’Halloran, Joe O’Loughlin, Conor Harrison, Shane McNamara, Donnacha Murphy, Cillian Duggan, Enda Harrison, Mike McNamara, Padraig Ward (0-8 6f), Seamus Conroy (0-1), Sean Conheady (0-2), Martin Duggan (0-1), Mike Daffy (0-3),Adrian Fleming (1-0), Daire Hannon (0-3)
Subs
Ruairi McNamara (0-1) for Hannon, Ger Leamy for M. Duggan,Tony McMahon for E. Harrison
Clarecastle
Donnagh Murphy, Seanie Moloney, Patrick Kelly, Garrett Barry, Danny Scanlon, Eric Flynn, Garry Farmer,Tyrone Kearse (1-4 1-3f), Jonathan Clancy (0-4), Derek Quinn (0-1), Kieran O’Dwyer (0-1), Fearghus Ryan, Jamie O’Connor,Alan O’Loughlin, Niall Dunne
Subs
Aaron Considine for Ryan (Inj), David Green for O’Loughlin, Eamon Callinan (0-1) for O’Connor, SeanTalty (1-0) for Dunne,Andrew Page for Farmer
Referee
Ger Hoey (Killanena)