Upcoming fixtures
Minor County Football B Final
26th Oct, U10 Hurling Blitz, Away
Minor Football:
Kilpeacon footballers advanced to the County Minor Football B final following a hard-fought win over a strong Drom-Broadford side at the semi-final stage on Saturday last, Oct 5th. Conditions played a significant role in the game, with the aid of a stiff breeze Kilpeacon dominated for long periods in the first half. Early points by Micheál O’Neill(3),Cormac Flanagan,Gary O’Connell, Damien Kearney and the flying Craig McNamara(0.2) and put us 8 pts to 3 up. The critical score of the half came when Craig McNamara goaled from close range leaving the half time score 1.8 to 0.3. This advantage was built on the dominant work around the middle third by David Maken,Sean Fitzgerald and Conor Burke.
As expected Drom-Broadford stormed back early in the second half and scored 1.3 without reply. Excellent goal keeping by Eoin Enright on three occasion and super defending in the full back like by Tim and Evan Moloney and Liam Carey kept our lead intact. As we shored up the defence the tigerish work of Nicky Morrissey and Colm Carey were crucial in turning the tide back in our favour. When introduced, David Cregan covered an immense amount of ground providing a great attacking outlet and combined well with the excellent Gary O’Connell. Our midfield regained dominance again and set up the key points by C.McNamara, David Cregan, M.O’Neill and significanly to the penalty award that was cooly put away by Conor Burke. Late Drom pressure was rewarded with a goal, the introduction of David Butler helped us defensively to hold off the final attacks and see us through on the scoreline 2.11 to 2.7.
Well done to every panel member who has played a role in getting the team to this stage throughout all games thus far.
Panel: Eoin Enright,Evan Moloney,Tim Moloney,Liam Carey, Colm Carey,Nicky Morrissey, Conor Burke, Seán Fitzgerald, David Macken, Gary. O’Connell, Micheál O’ Neill,Damien Kearney,Liam Quirke,Cormac Flanagan,Craig McNamara, David Cregan, David Butler,Conor Griffin,Darragh Griffin,Thomas Keogh,Evan Keogh.
U6/U8 Hurling
On Saturday 5th October fifteen of the Crecora Manister U6 and U8 Hurlers attended the end of season blitz in Old Christians.
The team played three 10-a-side matches, against Claughaun, Ennistymon and the last match against Scariff (1st half) and South Liberties (2nd half)
All our players got involved, contesting the ball, with some getting very competitive.
The second match against Ennistynmon was a very exciting encounter with our team working hard to get past the Ennistymon backs to score.
The Crecora Manister players had a very enjoyable morning’s hurling and were glad to get well earned rest periods on the subs bench on what was a warm and sunny morning.
Coaches Wanted!
If anyone is interested in Coaching or helping out in coaching especially with our underage teams ie U6 , U8 and U10’s in both hurling and/or football please let Ger Riordan or Noel Kennedy know . We are short of football coaches all through the age groups especially at U6 , U8 and U10’s and could even do with another coach at u12’s so if you are interested or know of anyone who is interested, we will organise coaching courses etc to help you.