ACHL Division 3
St. Brigid’s Cloughmills 3-16 All Saints 3-10
All Saints suffered their second defeat in three games as they try to find their feet in division 3 of the ACHL after gaining promotion last year but there are signs that they are heading in the right direction.
They travelled to Cloughmills on Sunday to face a Naomh Brid side who were playing their hurling in division 2 a couple of years ago and should be strong contenders for division 3 honours this year and turned in a battling performance before going down by six points.
Ben McQuillan scored two goals for the home side and Eoin Dobbin sent over some excellent frees and had a few from play, Stephen Smyth was in fine scoring form for the ‘biddies’ and Reece Watt celebrated his introduction as a substitute with a goal.
In mid-week All Saints lost by four to a good Glenravel side in Ballymena and Chris Dornan’s side have certainly been competitive and I’m sure the former St. Gall’s manager will be looking at division 3 survival as the first goal for his side this year.
Cloughmills led 1-6 to 0-4 at half time but All Saints came out strongly in the second half and matched their opponents for long periods.
Eoin McGuigan led the way for All Saints with the corner-forward hitting 2-1 over the hour with their other goal coming for mister consistency, Damien Gillan while Ciaran Neeson weighed in with 0-7 (5 frees) in what was an encouraging performance.
Cloughmills: Chris McKernan Joe Smyth Martin Dobbin Jonny Duffin Rian Dobbin Conor Laverty Oran Corrigan Kevin OBoyle Odhran McCurdy Ruairi Laverty Michael Devlin Eoin Dobbin Stephen Smyth Ben McQuillan Liam kearns
All Saints: 1 Ciaran Cassley 2 Archie McGreevy 3 Colum Neeson 4 Kevin Brady 5 Luke O’Rawe 6 Liam Cassley 7 Daniel Gray 8 Padhraig magill 9 Conor Matthew’s 10 Damian Gillan 11 Jack Magill 12 Ciaran Neeson 13 Eoin McGuigan 14 James O’Boyle 15 Cormac Magill
All Saints Scorers: Eoin McGuigan 2-1 Damien Gillan 1-0 Cormac Magill 0-1 Liam Cassley 0-1 Ciaran Neeson 0-7 (5f)
Subs: Vinny Esler for Cormac Magill, Niall Murray for Jack Magill, Dwayne McKee for Archie McGreevy
Referee: Ray Matthews (Rossa)