Antrim Hurling League Division 3
Con Magees Glenravel 0-8 St Brigid’s Cloughmills 5-9
Cloughmills had too much power for an understrength Glenravel side when the two met on Sunday morning at 10am at Fr Maginn Park.
Setting some sort of record for the earliest game ever played at the venue both teams looked a little sluggish in the early stages, but once Mickey Devlin pointed Cloughmills ahead on six minutes there was no looking back for the visitors and they went 0-4 to 0-1 ahead after nine. The first if their five goals came on ten minutes when Eoin Dobbin fired home from close range and midfielder Ruairi Laverty added a point soon after to but the Biddies in complete control.
By half time it 2-7 to 0-3, James Doherty getting the second Cloughmills goal on 24 minutes, while James Duffin was the man on target for Glenravel, adding two points from frees.
A goal at the start of the second half by James Doherty saw the home team goalkeeper Ronan Donnelly have to retire inured, which didn’t help their cause, Rian Lennon being called in to deputise. The scoring dried up for both teams for a while with just one Mickey Devlin point coming in the ninth minute, but the Biddies soon got going again and substitute Liam Kearns grabbed his team’s fourth goal in the 47th minute.
Two pointed frees by Padge O’Neill and James Duffin got Glenravel on the scoreboard in the second half and a late flurry from Niall Donnelly saw him add three more, two from frees and one from play, but Eoin Dobbin got Cloughmills fifth goal and also added a point from play to see his team head back down Omerbane with another win under their belts, as they continue their good start to the season.
