Division 2, County Senior Football League, Round 5.
Listry 1-06, Templenoe 1-06.
Templenoe and Listry shared the spoils after a disappointing encounter in Listry last Sunday. All in all a draw was probably a fair result, with both sides equally guilty of poor shooting and coughing up possession throughout which made for a low scoring contest.
The game was played in dampest conditions and the home side went into an early lead with the opening score from a Joe Clifford free. Templenoe responded quickly with Brian Crowley venturing up the field to cancel out his effort. However, then Listry started to get on top, putting Templenoe on the back foot. A long range free broke kindly for the Listry corner forward Sean O’Sullivan who was at the right place at the right time to pull on the ball to the net. The hosts consolidated their position with two points on the trot from Gearoid Murphy and Aaron O’Shea to make the score 1-03 to 0-01 after 12 minutes of play. To compound matters for the visitors, Templenoe then lost John Rice to injury. He was replaced by Joseph Sheehan, who in fairness acquitted himself well. Scores were hard to come by in the second quarter, Colin Crowley earned a mark and duly obliged with his effort in the 21st minute, before Danny Cahalane pointed from an acute angle to reduce the deficit to a goal just before the interval.
Half Time Score: Listry 1-03, Templenoe 0-03.
The second half continued in the same vein as the first half with scores few and at times far between. But Templenoe were starting to grow in confidence when Stephen O’Sullivan converted a free to leave just the two points in it with 37 minutes played. Micheal Keane replied with Listry’s first score in 27 minutes. Very soon after the game was put in the melting pot with Stephen O’Sullivan finding the net for Templenoe, after a superb ball into him from Josh Crowley Holland. The sides were now tied at 1-04 apiece. The next ten minutes saw both sides exchanging a few wides and turnovers. Then in the 50th minute a Sean Lehane free edged the hosts back in front, but Templenoe’s response was instant with Aidan Crowley although under pressure managed to swing his shot over the bar. More wides followed from both teams, before a pointed free from Colin Crowley put Templenoe in front for the first time with only two minutes of normal time remaining. However, there was six minutes of injury time to be played and Listry’s John Foley showed nerves of steel to fire over the equalizer just ahead of the final whistle.
Final Score: Listry 1-06, Templenoe 1-06.
Scorers:
Listry: Sean O’Sullivan 1-00, Joe Clifford 0-01 (1f), Gearoid Murphy 0-01, Aaron O’Shea 0-01, Micheal Keane 0-01, Sean Lehane 0-01 (1f), John Foley 0-1.
Templenoe: Stephen O’Sullivan 1-01 (1f), Colin Crowley 0-02 (1f) (1m), Brian Crowley 0-01, Danny Cahalane 0-01, Aidan Crowley 0-01.
Teams:
Listry: David Carroll, Danny Wrenn, Paudie Lehane, John Foley, Daire Murphy, Anthony Kennedy, Seamus Giles, Jimmy O’Leary, Gary O’Sullivan, Michael Keane, Aaron O’Shea, Gearoid Murphy, Joe Clifford, Sean Lehane, Sean O’Sullivan.
Subs: Michael Buckley, Kieran Murphy, Cain Bradley.
Templenoe: Mark Looney, Kieran McCarthy, Kieran O’Neill, John Moriarty, Mark Casey, John Rice, Brian Crowley, Sean Sheehan ©, Tom Spillane, Daniel Crowley, Danny Cahalane, Josh Crowley Holland, Aidan Crowley, Stephen O’Sullivan, Colin Crowley.
Subs: Joseph Sheehan, Michael F O’Connor, John Morley.
