Intermediate Hurling Championship – Group 2

St Gall’s 3-19 St Brigid’s Cloughmills 1-13

A strong second half performance saw St Gall’s get their first win in Group 2 of the Antrim Intermediate Hurling Championship at the expense of fellow strugglers Cloughmills at Whitehill Randalstown on Saturday evening.

Both teams came into this game looking for their first points of the campaign, and St Gall’s got off to a good start, hitting the first three points through Kurtis McGreevy, Fergus Donnelly and Gregory McGreevy.

Cloughmills were level on four minutes when half back Jimmy Doc Doherty fired in a goal and they added four points, three of them from free taker Eoin Dobbin and one from distance from midfielder Conor Lavery.

The pendulum swung back in St Gall’s favour with points from Mark Napier (3) Ethan Walsh and Gregory McGreevy but back came Rian Dobbin, Ruairi Laverty and Catham Mullan for the Biddies to lead 1-07 to -08 just before half time. However the men from the Bog Meadows produced a storming finish to the half with a point from Gregory McGreey and an injury time goal fro Dubaltach Wilson to lead by 1-09 to 1-07 at half-time.

Ronan Crossan increased the St Gall’s lead to four when he pointed just after the restart and though Eoin Dobbin pulled on back for Cloughmills points from Fergus Donnelly and Dubaltach Wilson, plus a goal by Sean McAreavey put the Belfast men in the driving seat.

The Biddies pulled a couple back through James Doherty and Eoin Dobbin but two by Wilson and one by Napier saw St Gall’s pull eight clear with just ten minutes left to play. Michael Morrison and Johnny Duffin came back with points for Cloughmills, but St Gall’s were now in control and when Mark Napier got their third goal five minutes from time there was no way back for Cloughmills.

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