Antrim Football League Division 1
Tir na n0g 3-08 Creggan 2-17
Creggan had six points to spare over neighbours Tir na nÓg in Sunday’s early game at Whitehill as the Kickhams maintained their perfect start to the league campaign. The game, which had a 10-45 throw-in due to the funeral of former Creggan player Bosco Murray, was played in a variety of weather conditions, but provided good entertainment for those who had made the effort to attend.
With Creggan leading by 0-02 to 0-01 after ten minutes Dominic McAteer grabbed the first goal of the game to stretch the visitors lead to four and centre forward Liam Quinn pushed it out to five soon afterwards with a well taken point.
Tir na nÓg kept in touch with points from Oliver McAtamney, Emmet Murray and free taker Darragh Fagan but Creggan still held the upper hand and led by 1-06 to 0-05 at half time.
A half time hail shower sent the spectators running for cover but by the time they returned to the field conditions had thankfully improved. Tir na nOg got themselves back in the game when Oliver McAtamney finished off a good move by palming the ball to the net to close the gap to just two, Creggan hit back right away and three quick points, one from Conor Johnston and two from Liam Quinn to stretch the gap to five again.
Creggan then took control and the gap was out to nine when Eunan McAteer fisted over from close range before Shea McCann stretched the gap to ten when he popped over a free.
It appeared the contest had petered out when Creggan led by ten with just three minutes of normal time to play but quick thinking by the home side’s full forward Darragh Fagan fired a low shot to the corner of the Creggan net. Less than a minute later Tir na nOg grabbed another goal and suddenly the gap was down to just four, but Creggan went straight up the other end and were awarded a penalty which Shea McCann fired past the diving Tir na nÓg goalkeeper Sean Paul McAtamney to seal the win.
1-Sean Paul McAtamney 2–Declan Mallon 3–Brandon McLarnon 4–Manus Smith 5–Ciaran O’Neill 6–Ciaran McGrellis 7–Aodhan Tolan 8–Ryan O’Neill 9–Oliver McAtamney 10–Padraig Redmond 11–Joshua Higgins 12–Sean McKeown 13–Ryan Crilly 14–Darragh Fagan 15-Emmet Murray
1 – Mark Dougan 2. Aidan Maguire 3. Ricky Johnson 4. Liam McLernon 5. Sam Maguire 6. Ethan Carey Small 7. Dominic McAteer 8. Jamie McCann 9. Eunan McAteer 10 Shea McCann 11 Liam Quinn 12 Ruairi McCann 13. Joe McAteer 14. Aidan McKeown 15. Conor Johnson
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