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St. Joseph’s 4-16, Mattock Rangers 2-11

St. Joseph’s captured a second Paddy Sheelan Cup win when they came out on top in their meeting with Mattock Rangers in Darver this morning. The Joes set the foundation for this win with an excellent first half performance that saw them go in at half time leading by 2-8 to 0-1. The Joes duo of Conall Smyth and Oisin McGuinness led the Joes scoring in the opening 10 minutes, McGuinness with a point in the first minute, quickly followed by a Smyth point. A further Conall Smyth point, with Oisin McGuinness setting up Smyth to palm the ball to the net on 8mins. Alan Quigley and Cathal Fleming for Mattock exchanged frees with Gabriel Bell splitting the posts to give the Joes a 1-5 to 0-1 on 15mins.

Mattock Rangers found it difficult to break through a well organised Joes defence with turnovers from Michael O’Brien and Rian Devlin leading to points from Ben Collier and Jack Mulligan to extend the Joes lead. Despite been reduced to 14 following a black card the Joes continued to dominate the scoring. The Joes hit a second goal when Oisin McGuinness raced through to drive a low shot across the face of goal to the left corner of the net on 21mins. It was Conall Smyth who finished the first half scoring to send the Joes in leading 2-8 to 0-1 at the break.

Ben Collier was on target with the first point of the second half for the Joes, with Ciaran Johnston flashing his shot across the face of the Mattock goal. On 38mins Alan Quigley crashed the ball to the net following a superbly weighted pass over the top from Gabriel Bell. Cathal Fleming kept the Mattock scoreboard ticking as he was unerring with three pointed frees. Stephen Smith in the Mattock goal who made a number of fine saves, denying the Joes on 44mins, Killian McDonnell pointing under pressure. A Karl Grimes free for Mattock left the Joes ahead by 2-11 to 0-5 at the end of the third quarter.

Mattock Rangers took the game to the Joes in the final quarter, a two pointer from Cathal Fleming was followed by well worked goal driven low to the net by Fleming on 48mins. A Jack Mulligan free was quickly followed by a Karl Grimes free and another two pointer for Mattock on 56mins. Jack Mulligan pointed on 57mins with Cathal Fleming hitting the net from the penalty spot to cut the margin to five, 3-13 to 2-11. The Jos finished with a flourish as Evan McEnteggart pointed and Oisin McGuinness hit a superb point off his left. In the first minute of added time a high dropping ball from Ben Collier found its way to the net with Gabriel Bell finishing the scoring to give the Joes a deserved 4-16 to 2-11 win.

St. Josephs: Adam Cassidy, Ciaran Johnston, David Kieran, Rian Devlin, Michael O’Brien, Gabriel Bell(0-2), Conor Neary, Killian Staunton, Oisin McGuinness(1-2,1f), Jack Mulligan (0-4,1f), Ben Collier (1-2), Rory McLoughlin, Alan Quigley (1-1,1f), Alan McKenna, Conall Smyth (1-3), Cormac Marmion, Evan McEnteggart (0-1), Sean Allen, Aidan Kieran, Killian McDonnell (0-1), Cian Sheridan.

Congratulations to Michael O’Brien who made his first senior start today, wishing you the very best in your future career.
Below we have Michael in action today with Conall Smyth finishing off the first Joes goal. Well done guys 🟢⚪️🟡 ... See MoreSee Less