Club Notes: 10th August 2020

Post date: Aug 11, 2020 1:21:46 AM

Notaí CLG Tulach an Iarainn sponsored by Goalpost Ireland.

Junior Hurling Championship: Tallow 2-21 Brickey Rangers 1-11.

It was the first time I can remember we played Brickey Rangers in adult competition in a resplendent Tallow venue on Friday last. The two Tom's, Dinny and Brendan had the field looking as nice as I've seen it. Goals washed and painted, the field lined and the grass cut. It's no wonder our boys couldn't wait to get out there and play. The first three minutes had both teams swapping points from placed balls. Mark had two frees and Kevin Henley scored his first from play on five minutes . We lead three points to one and in the next five minutes Evan opened his account on a very solid evening from him followed a great point from sixty metres from Kevin . James Murray was a rock at the heart of our defence and hoovered up ball and delivered it with gusto to our full forward line.

Brian McCarthy had our first goal chance of the evening which just went wide. He opened his account two minutes later with a great catch to dissect the posts. At the first water break we lead seven points to three. Our full forward line were causing consternation to their markers. If big Brian wasn't catching the ball he would break it and Evan was collecting all the breaks. Although Mikey didn't score his intelligent use of the ball was evident throughout. A great catch from Brian and a hand pass out to Donnchadh and he opened his account. A Mark free and a long range Donnchadh strike from midfield had us 0-10 to 0-5 with five minutes of the half left. We closed out the half with an Evan goal. A first time pull from Brian struck the post and Evan reacted the quickest to bury the ball past a helpless cúl barra. The half time whistle blew with Tallow leading 1-11 to 0-6. We were hurling sharply and our striking was crisp and where putting the scores up even accruing to a few wides.

We got the perfect start to the second half when the big Brian got a goal from a ground pull after good work by Evan . Quite in the first half Eoin Condon stormed into the second half and was a fruitful ploy to any of Basher's puck outs as well as scoring one himself and making several. Evan added to his tally with another point and his personnal score of 1-06 all from play delighted the nice Tallow crowd in attendance as well as himself and his teammates. We lost Eamon to red card after hurling very solidly throughout. His other wing man Shaun limped out and was replaced by Noel Condon who turned into Paudie Maher for a minute with the citeóg knocking opponents out of his way to score great point after a powerful run. Ten minutes to go and with the Brickeys finding the net from a penalty , their goal line attempt two minutes after was repelled brilliantly by Basher .Evan finished off the scoring ,one in which he could claim to be the top performer in what was a great collective performance by the Tallow team, leaving the final score Tallow 2-21 Brickey Rangers 1-11.

Team : Brian Henley, Alan Curley, Dean Beecher, William Cunningham, Shaun Henley, James Murray, Eamonn Forbes, Jake Neville, Kevin Henley(0-2), Eoin Condon (0-1), Donnchadh Mulcahy(0-3), Mark Stewart (0-6, 5f), Mikey Curley, Brian McCarthy (1-2), Evan Sheehan (1-6). Subs Noel Condon (0-1) for Shaun Henley, William Murphy for Kevin Henley, Eric Hickey for Will Cunningham, Stuart Barry, Stephen Pratt, Billy Buckley.