Garveys SuperValu County Senior Football Championship, Round 2.
Templenoe 1-16, Shannon Rangers 1-12 (AET).
Templenoe have qualified for the county championship senior quarter-final, after overcoming Shannon Rangers in an entertaining game that went all the ways to extra time. In doing so, Templenoe have maintained the club’s proud record of reaching the last eight of the county championship every year since Templenoe’s debut season in the county championship back in 2020.
The game was played on a dry afternoon at Fitzgerald Stadium last Sunday. Shannon Rangers started the brighter with Jack Kennelly (mark) and John Coolahan splitting the posts to get them off the mark. It took Templenoe a while to settle before their sharpshooter Killian Spillane put over two points from play either side of a Jack Kennelly white flag for the north Kerry side. This made it 0-02 to 0-03 in favour of the Rangers at the end of the first quarter.
Templenoe were the dominant side in the second quarter and they made it count with a brace of points from Kieran McCarthy, Gavin Crowley, Brian Crowley and John Rice. Then Templenoe almost had a goal when a diagonal ball across the goal from Colin Crowley was nearly fisted to the net from Killian Spillane only to be denied by Pa Carmody. Jack Kennelly pointed another free just before the break to leave two points between the sides at the interval.
Half Time Score: Templenoe 0-06, Shannon Rangers 0-04.
Shannon Rangers enjoyed a purple patch at the beginning of the second half. Four unanswered points from Dara Keane, Jason Foley, Jack Kennelly and Evan Boyle saw them re-take the lead by two before Killian Spillane cut the deficit to the minimum once more with a converted free. Then came the Templenoe goal in sweet move involving Josh Crowley Holland and Killian Spillane who put Tadhg Morley through on goal and Morley executed his shot perfectly giving Rangers keeper Pa Carmody no chance. Colin Crowley added another point immediately after to put Templenoe 1-08 to 0-08 ahead at the end of the third quarter.
Templenoe consolidated their lead with two more points from Brian Crowley and Killian Spillane to extend Templenoe’s lead to five points coming into the home stretch. Credit to Shannon Rangers they kept plugging away and they brought Templenoe’s lead back down to three points courtesy of two quick scores from Brendan O’Neill and Jack Kennelly. The announcement of 5 minutes injury time gave hope to the Rangers as Templenoe retreated to defend their lead. Then a high ball in from the north Kerry side broke kindly to Kevin Goulding and he fired home the equalizer to bring the game into extra-time. Templenoe did have one last chance to win the game in normal time, but a placed ball effort from Colin Crowley went narrowly wide of the posts.
Full Time Score: Templenoe 1-10, Shannon Rangers 1-10.
Buoyed by their injury time goal to draw the game at the end of normal time, Shannon Rangers duly got the first score in extra-time through Jack Kennelly. But Templenoe were having none of it and reignited with the next four points on the trot courtesy of Adrian Spillane, Brian Crowley (2) and well won and converted mark from Killian Spillane.
Extra-Time, Half Time Score: Templenoe 1-14, Shannon Rangers 1-11.
Shannon Rangers tried hard for a second goal by hitting a few probing balls in towards the Templenoe goal, but the Templenoe defence cleared their lines each time and went on to make sure of their hard earned win with two late points from Kieran McCarthy and Adrian Spillane either side of pointed free from Jack Kennelly.
Final Score (AET): Templenoe 1-16, Shannon Rangers 1-12.
Scorers:
Templenoe: Killian Spillane 0-05 (2f) (1m), Brian Crowley 0-04, Tadhg Morley 1-00, Kieran McCarthy 0-02, Adrian Spillane 0-02, Gavin Crowley 0-01, John Rice 0-01, Colin Crowley 0-01.
Shannon Rangers: Jack Kennelly 0-07 (3f) (1m), Kevin Goulding 1-00, John Coolahan 0-01, Dara Keane 0-01, Jason Foley 0-01, Evan Boyle 0-01, Brendan O’Neill 0-01.
Wides:
Templenoe: 4
Shannon Rangers: 7
Teams:
Templenoe: Mark Looney, Michael Hallissey, Kieran O’Neill, John Rice, Mark Casey, Tadhg Morley, Kieran McCarthy, Sean Sheehan, Gavin Crowley, Colin Crowley, Josh Crowley Holland, Adrian Spillane, Killian Spillane, Brian Crowley, Aidan Crowley.
Subs Used: Ríain O'Byrne, John Spillane, Daniel Crowley.
Shannon Rangers: Pa Carmody, David Mulvihill, Tadhg O’Carroll, Jack Gogarty, Brian Mason, Jason Foley, Kevin Goulding, Robert Stack, Jack O’Sullivan, Adam Segal, Evan Boyle, Dara Keane, John Coolahan, Jack Kennelly, Luke Rochford.
Subs Used: Danny Wren, Shaun Wren, Dara Slattery, Brendan O’Neill, Conor Toomey, David Lynch, Liam Guiney, Daith Toomey.
