Under 15A Football Championship final @ Dunsilly
St Brigid’s 4-13 St Enda’s 0-7
St Brigid’s won the Under 15 Football Championship title with a comprehensive win over St Enda’s at Dunsilly on Thursday evening. In dark and wet conditions the Musgrave Park boys had just too much class for their hard working opponents and in centre forward JJ Higgins they had the outstanding player on the field. Higgins ended with 3-7 to his name, 1-6 of which came in the first half and hard though they tried St Enda’s just could not contain him.
It was St Enda’s who opened the scoring when they broke in from the right wing and fisted the ball over the bar but St Brigid’s were level inside a minute when JJ Higgins swung over a free. Slowly but surely St Brigid’s began to get on top and two more from Higgins frees put them 0-3 to 0-1 clear by the 12th minute. St Enda’s thought they had made the breakthrough when 11 fired to the net, but the referee had already blow for an earlier foul and Musgrave Park side took advantage as Higgins hit two more before smashing in the first goal of the game on 18 minutes.
St Enda’s had their best spell of the game when they hit three points in a five minutes, one from Cathair McKenna and two from Paidric O‘Hare, but St Brigid’s finished the half strongly and points from Higgins and corner forward Joe Logan had them a 1-8 to 0-4 ahead at the break.
A point from Conor O’Connell just after the break, and a goal from his fellow half back Joe Mulgrew soon after the restart left St Enda’s with a mountain to climb, but Padhraig O’Hare gave them some hope with a well taken point. However a superb goal from Higgins in the 39th minute, all but wrapped it up, and though he missed a great chance of another major a minute later, he made amends in the 47th minute with another great strike. O’Hare came back with points in the 52nd and 56th minutes for St Enda’s but Higgins wrapped it all up with the last point of the game in the Dunsilly darkness to complete a great season for this St Brigid’s side.
