Templenoe 4-17, Listowel Emmett’s 0-07
Templenoe recorded a comfortable home win over Listowel Emmett’s in Round 7 of the County Senior Football League on Saturday evening. The match was played in poor weather conditions, on a wet evening with a blustery wind helping Listowel in the first half.
Killian Spillane got the home sides first score with a lovely point from the outside of his right foot. This was quickly followed up when Josh Holland pounced on a Listowel defensive mistake for another point. On the 5th minute, the home side recieved their first goal when Brian Crowley was put through, who finished to the net.
Templenoe continued their good play and a great long ball found Brian Crowley isolated near the square. The visitor’s goalie, Keith Hughes pulled Brian back, resulting in a penalty and a black card. The penalty was well saved for a 45’ by the Listowel stand in goalie.
Templenoe added another point through Teddy Doyle, and on the 10th minute, John Rice notched Templenoe’s second goal. Listowel were in a lot of trouble at this stage and continued attacks were to yield further scores through a Killian Spillane point and a brace of identical goals from Teddy Doyle. Both of the Teddy Doyle goals came from Templenoe point attempts that dropped short around the square, which were punched to the net by Teddy. On the 15th minute, the scoreline was Templenoe 4-04, Listowel 0-01. Conor Cox scoring Listowel’s point from a free.
The match settled down for the rest of the half and Templenoe added a further 2 points from Brian Crowley and Teddy Doyle. Conor Cox responded with 3 points for the visitors. The score at the interval, was Templenoe 4-06, Listowel 0-04.
The expected response from Listowel did not really materialize at the start of the second half, and all intensity from the match was absent in the first 10 minutes. Templenoe scoring 2 points to the visitors single point in this period. Templenoe started to introduce subs, and continued to add on points including scores from Kieran O’Neill, Pat Spillane (2) and John Moriarity (2). Teddy Doyle also continued his fine performance with some great individual points.
Templenoe picked up the 2 league points on offer, on a final scoreline of Templenoe 4-17, Listowel Emmett’s 0-07.
Templenoe Scorers: Teddy Doyle 2-08, Brian Crowley 1-01, John Rice 1-00, Killian Spillane 0-02, Pat Spillane 0-02, John Moriarity 0-02, Josh Holland 0-01, Kieran O’Neill 0-01.
Templenoe Team: Anthony Sheehan, Mike Hallissey, Shane Cremin, Kieran O’Neill, Kieran McCarthy, Tadhg Morley, Gavin Crowley, Sean Sheehan, Cian Hallissey, Josh Holland, Brian Crowley, Adrian Spillane, Killian Spillane, Teddy Doyle, John Rice.
Subs: Danny Cahalane, Pat Spillane, John Moriarity, Daniel O’Neill, Denis O’Neill.
Listowel Scorers: Conor Cox 0-05, David Keane 0-01, Darragh Leahy 0-01.
Listowel Team: Keith Hughes, Shane Quinn, Jack McGuire, Brendan Guiney, Ger McCarthy, Noel Kennelly, Darragh Leahy, Darren Halpin, Sean McCarthy, David Sheehy, Callum Finnegan, Rici Hanley, David Keane, Conor Cox, John Buckley.
