Under 19 Hurling League
Cushendall 5-20 Glenariffe- Glenravel 3-12
Cushendall beat neighbours Glenarife-Glenravel in a high scoring Under 19 Hurling League game at Pairc Mhuire on Monday evening in a match produced 8 goals and 32 points.
The first half saw both teams match each other score for score with and Orrin O’Connor goal getting Glenariffe-Glenravel ahead for the first time on eight minutes. Five minutes later Cushendall got back ahead when top scorer Joseph McLaughlin grabbed the first goal for the home team but Cormac McKeown hit back with the visitors second major to regain the upper hand.
From then until the 25th minute it was score for score with the McLauglins Joseph and Thomas hitting the target regularly for the Dall, while McKeown and Brogan O’Connor added regularly to the Glenariffe-Glenravel score. With five minutes of the first half remaining the game was turned on its head when Cushendall got in for three goals in as many minutes, the first coming from Jospeh McLaughlin while McGarel, who had played all his juvenile hurling for Glenariffe, got the other two.
With such a deficit it was always going to be hard for the visitors to get back into the game, but when Orrin O’Connor grabbed a goal four minutes after the restart and his brother Brogan added a point there was a ray of hope. That didn’t last long however as from the poc-out Cushendall’s Joseph McLaughlin completed his hat trick with a neat finish, and three points in a row from Padraig McKillop, Oisin Woodhouse and McLaughlin ended any lingering doubts.
Glenariffe-Glenravel dis come back with four in a row of their own, with two points apiece from the O’Connor brothers, but the gap was just too big and by the end it was out to an emphatic 14 points.
