OB Construction Intermediate Football Championship
Rasharkin 1-11 Glenravel 0-17
Glenravel overturned an early March league defeat by the same opponents at the same venue to emerge winners in this tightly contested championship match at Dreen on Saturday. On that occasion, Rasharkin came out tops by a single point but this weekend it was the visitors who proved too strong. Rasharkin’s late goal put a sheen on the result but there was a bigger gap in reality between the teams.
In glorious sunshine the Dreen pitch was immaculate but the opening seven minutes belonged to the men in green & white who rushed into a three point lead courtesy of some accurate finishing from Callum Higgins, Eamon Fyfe and Ryan McQuillan. The next seven minutes were dominated by Rasharkin who managed to draw one point ahead with four scores on the bounce from sharp shooter Ryan Lynch. Eoin Hynds would level things at the end of the first quarter with a lovely point from along the sideline only to see the home team go ahead again from the ingenuity of Lynch. Con Magees regained control and went on to record the next four scores but Rasharkin finished out the half stronger with three points from Andrew Hasson (02) and Eamonn McNeill and so both teams retired to the shelter of the changing rooms on level terms 0-08 each.
The visitors’ started the second half stronger with points form Ryan McQuillan and Eamon Fyfe, but again Lynch pegged one back for Rasharkin and the game looked like it would be a carbon copy of the earlier league game with very little separating the teams. But Glenravel had other ideas and they really put the squeeze on in the third quarter with four unanswered points from Fyfe, Hynds and Martin McCarry to put some daylight between the teams. Ryan Lynch once again kept his team in the game with a pointed free but Glenravel were in no mood for a second consecutive defeat and they rallied with three scores in the closing ten minutes to lead 0-17 to 0-10 and put the game to bed. But we hadn’t planned for nine minutes added time during which the home team, went for broke and recorded 1-01 to leave the final score Rasharkin 1-11 Glenravel 0-17
This result now means that Rasharkin will bow out of the OB Construction IFC and Glenravel and Davitts will fight for top spot in Group 3 in two weeks’ time.
RASHARKIN
Tiernan O’Boyle, Colm Kennedy, Emmet McFerran, Pearce Kennedy, Fearghal Kennedy, Conor Hasson, Oran McMullan, Seamus Ennis, Ruairi O’Boyle, Shane Hasson, Eamon McNeill, Donagh Quigg, Ryan Lynch, Andrew Hasson, Thomas McMullan.
CON MAGEES
James McEvoy, Declan Traynor, Eoin McCusker, Charlie Henry, Rian Lennon, Niall Swann, Daniel McQuillan, David Higgins, Callum Higgins, Aidan O’Donnell, Eoin Hynds, Conor McNeill, Johnny Fyfe, Eamon Fyfe, Ryan McQuillan
