Credit Union County Senior Football League, Division 2, Round 4.
Beaufort 0-14, Templenoe 2-08.
An equalizing point from Killian Spillane shortly before the full-time whistle, saw Templenoe maintain their unbeaten run as do Beaufort in this year’s county league with four rounds played. It was absorbing game of football, played in ideal conditions at Beaufort GAA Grounds last Sunday, with no less than four Kerry senior panelists featuring, Mike Breen for Beaufort, Adrian Spillane, Gavin Crowley, and Killian Spillane (second half) for Templenoe.
Beaufort opened the scoring through their sharpshooter Liam Carey. However, two minutes later Templenoe had the ball in the net, when a high ball in was gathered by Aidan Crowley who offloaded to his brother Daniel for a well-executed goal. Templenoe quickly built on this with Stephen O’Sullivan and two scores on the trot from Adrian Spillane extending the visitors lead to five points 8 minutes in. Beaufort did create goal chances in the first half too but were denied by a block from Sean Sheehan for one of their chances, while Mark Looney spread himself well to prevent Fergal Hallissey rattling the net on another occasion. Nonetheless, four unanswered points from the hosts between the 10th minute and the 19th minute courtesy of Fergal Hallissey (2f), Liam Carey and a point from a mark through Darragh O’Connor saw Beaufort reduce the arrears to just the minimum, with the scoreboard reading 0-05 to 1-03 after 19 minutes of action. Templenoe rallied again with Patrick Clifford next to raise a white flag after he wisely hand passed the ball over the bar. Then came the visitors second goal of the day, in a move that stemmed from a perfect ball in from Gavin Crowley to Adrian Spillane who had only one thing on his mind and made no mistake with his finish. Beaufort refused to let their heads drop though and responded well with Danny Healy and Liam Carey both splitting the posts to keep the contest well alive at the break.
Half Time Score: Beaufort 0-07, Templenoe 2-04.
Templenoe had a trick up their sleeve with Killian Spillane introduced for the second half and he was less than a minute on the field before he got his name on the scoresheet with a pointed free. Colin Crowley added another soon after to put Templenoe five points to the good again. But the hosts battled their way back into it once more with Liam Carey and two placed balls from Fergal Hallissey reducing the margin to two points to make the score 0-10 to 2-06 after 42 minutes. Both sides were going all out for it now and Beaufort keeper Sean Coffey made two good stops with his long reach to pull down two Templenoe efforts that appeared to be going over the crossbar. Killian Spillane traded scores with fellow Kerry panelist Mike Breen, before Beaufort substitute Jack O’Connor reduced the margin to just one point with nine minutes left to play. Then coming into the home stretch Liam Carey with his fifth point of the game, followed by another from Jack O’Connor looked like snatching this game for Beaufort. However Killian Spillane proved how crucial his presence was when he took on responsibility to get hold of possession near the end line and fire over the equalizing point on the stroke of full time.
Final Score: Beaufort 0-14, Templenoe 2-08.
Scorers:
Beaufort: Liam Carey 0-05, Fergal Hallissey 0-04 (4f), Jack O’Connor 0-02, Mike Breen 0-01, Danny Healy 0-01, Darragh O’Connor 0-01 (1m).
Templenoe: Adrian Spillane 1-02, Daniel Crowley 1-00, Killian Spillane 0-03 (2f), Stephen O’Sullivan 0-01, Patrick Clifford 0-01, Colin Crowley 0-01.
Teams:
Beaufort: Sean Coffey, Ethan Coffey, Ger Hartnett, Josh Coffey, Mark Neary, Nathan Breen, Tim Casey, Sean O’Brien, Mike Breen, Ciaran O’Sullivan, Mikey Moriarty, Fergal Hallissey, Darragh O’Connor, Liam Carey, Danny Healy.
Subs used: Padraig Doona, Jack O’Connor.
Templenoe: Mark Looney, Ciaran Crowley, Kieran O’Neill, Kieran McCarthy, Joseph Sheahan, Patrick Clifford, Martin Reilly, Sean Sheehan, Gavin Crowley, Adrian Spillane, Colin Crowley, Hugh Granville, Stephen O’Sullivan, Aidan Crowley, Daniel Crowley.
Subs used: Killian Spillane
