Donoughmore 1:3 Glenville 5:9
Glenville made the journey to mid cork on Saturday to play Donoughmore. Glenville had a slow start to this league losing our first two games and winning our last outing against Erins Own, so a win here today was vital.
Glenville had a bright start. Mark O'Donoghue was Glenville's key man in the first 10mins and scored 1:1 in this time to get Glenville up and running. Colin O'Keefe was causing the Donoughmore back line a lot of trouble and picked off a few lovely scores. In midfield Eoin FitzGerald began to take charge, and he made some great runs and Donoughmore had no answer to this. Daniel Cronin was Eoin's midfield partner. He was marking the Donoughmore danger man and had to be on the top of his game throughout. Glenville began picking off the scores very well throughout the first half and a long ball from Colin O'Keefe was expertly deflected into the goal by Ben Flanagan. Liam O'Keefe, who was late to the match due to a SatNav malfunction was introduced early on and was made a great contribution to his team. The score was 3:3 to 1:1 at half time.
Although the forwards were causing havoc throughout the game, it was the dominance of the Glenville backs that was most impressive today. In particular the full back line of Eoghan Knapp and Patrick Ryan was arguably the winning of the game, and this young pair seem to be improving with every game they play. In the halfback line, there was no getting the better of Sean Murphy, Donal Sheehan and centreback Davin Sullivan.
Glenville won well in the end. Colm O'Regan almost scored a spectacular goal late on when he lobbed the goalie only for the ball to rebound off the post. He followed this up with a great handpass over the bar, a score which would not have looked out of place in FitzGeralds Stadium or Croke Park!
Glenville will have a break now for two or three weeks, but will return with and important game against league toppers Kiltha Og.
Glenville made the journey to mid cork on Saturday to play Donoughmore. Glenville had a slow start to this league losing our first two games and winning our last outing against Erins Own, so a win here today was vital.
Glenville had a bright start. Mark O'Donoghue was Glenville's key man in the first 10mins and scored 1:1 in this time to get Glenville up and running. Colin O'Keefe was causing the Donoughmore back line a lot of trouble and picked off a few lovely scores. In midfield Eoin FitzGerald began to take charge, and he made some great runs and Donoughmore had no answer to this. Daniel Cronin was Eoin's midfield partner. He was marking the Donoughmore danger man and had to be on the top of his game throughout. Glenville began picking off the scores very well throughout the first half and a long ball from Colin O'Keefe was expertly deflected into the goal by Ben Flanagan. Liam O'Keefe, who was late to the match due to a SatNav malfunction was introduced early on and was made a great contribution to his team. The score was 3:3 to 1:1 at half time.
Although the forwards were causing havoc throughout the game, it was the dominance of the Glenville backs that was most impressive today. In particular the full back line of Eoghan Knapp and Patrick Ryan was arguably the winning of the game, and this young pair seem to be improving with every game they play. In the halfback line, there was no getting the better of Sean Murphy, Donal Sheehan and centreback Davin Sullivan.
Glenville won well in the end. Colm O'Regan almost scored a spectacular goal late on when he lobbed the goalie only for the ball to rebound off the post. He followed this up with a great handpass over the bar, a score which would not have looked out of place in FitzGeralds Stadium or Croke Park!
Glenville will have a break now for two or three weeks, but will return with and important game against league toppers Kiltha Og.