Ulster Intermediate Football Championship – Preliminary round
Glenullin 2-17 Moneyglss 0-06
Moneyglass came up well short in Saturday evening’s Ulster Intermediate Football Championship preliminary round against Derry champions Glenullin at Owenbeg. The Derry men, who were playing in the competition for the third time in four years, had just too much craft for the St Ergnat’s side and took total control in the second half to win by seventeen points.
Glenullin got a fortunate break to get them off the mark when a shot from full forward Donal O’Kane saw two Moneyglass defenders get confused under the dropping ball and it ended in the net to set them on their way.
With the breeze in their favour the Derry champions pushed on and were 1-03 to the good before Moneyglass opened their account with a Colum Duffin point, but Glenullin came back with two 2pointers inside a minute from midfielder Niall McNicholl to take total control, but the Antrim champions grabbed two late points before half time through Tyler Cassidy and Sean Boyd to cut their arrears to seven at the interval.
With the breeze at their backs in the second half there was still hope for St Ergnat’s but Glenullin slammed the door firmly shut when Donal O’Kane pointed from an early free and when right half forward Cathal Hasson added two more the only thing in question was the size of the winning margin.
It was just one of the those nights when nothing would go right for Moneyglass and though they battled away, very little was falling their way and Glenullin grabbed their second goal to push the lead out to 2-12 to 0-03.
Moneyglass broke their second half duck with a point from Conleth McCann and he added another soon afterwards, but the Derry men were just too good on the night as they went through to the quarter finals.
Glenullin: N O’Kane; E Boylan, Daniel O’Kane, E O’Kane; C Rafferty, J O’Kane, D McNicholl; T Bradley, N McNicholl (0-6, 2tp); Cathal Hasson (0-2), C Dempsey, C Bradley; C Mullan (0-1f), Dónal O’Kane (1-4, 1-3f), R McNicholl (1-1)
Subs: E Bradley (0-2, 1f) for C Mullan (40), E McIlvar for C Hasson (46), R Close for T Bradley (50), E Hasson for E O’Kane (52), D Close for D McNicholl (56)
Moneyglass: J McLaughlin; M Mullan, Z McCaughan, J McCormick; T McCormack, P Duffin, C McCann (0-2); K McCann, S Duffin; S Boyd (0-1), A McErlain, F Duffin; C O’Kane, C Duffin (0-1f), Tyler Cassidy (0-1)Subs: C Boyd for O’Kane (43), M McLaughlin for F Duffin (50), R Boyd for Cassidy (50), E Kelly for J McCormick (56), R Campbell (0-1) for S Boyd (56)
Black card: Z McCaughan (37)Yellow cards: A McErlain (10), E Kelly (63)
Referee: S Murphy (Armagh)
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