County Senior Football League, Division 2, Round 11.

Laune Rangers 1-17, Templenoe 2-10.

Templenoe lost out to Laune Rangers by four points in the final round of this year’s county league last Friday evening in Killorglin. With both teams already safe from relegation, but out of contention for promotion prior to this contest, the game perhaps unsurprisingly lacked excitement, although there was a steady flow of scores.

On a glorious evening for football, both teams wasted no time finding their shooting boots with Eoghan Hassett and Stephen O’Sullivan trading two scores each in the opening 4 minutes. Indeed Stephen O’Sullivan was on fire for the visitors in the first half. He added another point to his tally before he bagged two well taken goals to put Templenoe 0-03 to 2-03 up by the 11^th minute. Stephen Daly had a score for Laune Rangers in between, before two points on the trot from David Mangan and Daniel Macbeth helped to slightly soften the blow of Templenoe’s two green flags. For the remainder of the first half it was pretty much score for score. Templenoe had points from Stephen O’Sullivan (2) and Colin Crowley (2), while Laune Rangers produced white flags from David Mangan, Eoghan Hassett (2) and Eoin Clifford. Then just before the half time whistle came the turning point when the Templenoe defence under strong pressure from the Rangers attack struggled to clear their lines from inside the box and the referee awarded a penalty. John Tyther neatly converted the spot kick to reduce the margin to the minimum.

Half Time Score: Laune Rangers 1-09, Templenoe 2-07.

Buoyed by their goal just before the break, Laune Rangers started the second half on the front foot, with a long ball to Daniel Macbeth who called the mark and duly obliged with his effort. Stephen O’Sullivan briefly restored Templenoe’s one point advantage, however this would be the last time the visitors had the lead. Laune Rangers then hit purple patch with four answered points courtesy of Patrick Carey, John Tyther, Shane Doona and Gabriel Griffin to make the score 1-14 to 2-08 mid way through the second half. Brian and Colin Crowley (f) responded with two hard earned scores for Templenoe. This put just the one point between the sides with seven minutes left to play. However, coming into the home straight, Laune Rangers just had that bit more in the tank with Calum Moriarty, John Tyther and Patrick Carey tagging on three more points to safely close the game for the hosts.

Final Score: Laune Rangers 1-17, Templenoe 2-10.

Scorers:

Laune Rangers: Eoghan Hassett 0-04 (2f), John Tyther 1-02 (1p) (1f), David Mangan 0-02, Patrick Carey 0-02, Daniel Macbeth 0-02 (1m), Shane Daly 0-01, Shane Doona 0-01, Gabriel Griffin 0-01, Calum Moriarty 0-01, Eoin Clifford 0-01.

Templenoe: Stephen O’Sullivan 2-06 (3f), Colin Crowley 0-3 (2f), Brian Crowley 0-01.

Teams:

Laune Rangers: Padraig Ahern, Sean Cleary, Sean Arthurs, Evan Madden, Ryan Diggin, David Mangan, Rory O’Connor, Shane Daly, Calum Moriarty, Patrick Carey, Eoin Clifford, Daniel Macbeth, John Tyther, Peter Crowley Eoghan Hassett.

Subs used: James Treacy, Gabriel Griffin, Shane Doona, Killian Spillane, Marc Clifford.

Templenoe: Mark Looney, Mark Casey, Kieran O’Neill, John Rice, Brian Crowley, Joseph Sheahan, John Moriarty, Tom Spillane, Josh Crowley Holland, Colin Crowley, Kieran McCarthy, Martin Reilly, Stephen O’Sullivan, Aidan Crowley, Daniel Crowley.

Subs used: Hugh Granville, Michael F O’Connor, Dan O'Connor

Senior Football League Division 2