ACFL Division 1
All Saints 1-14 St. Ergnat’s 1-14
In a game of changing fortunes All Saints and St. Ergnat’s couldn’t be separated in the end in an entertaining ACFL Division 1 clash at Slemish Park on Saturday night.
The Ballymena side looked like they were heading for their second win on the bounce when they led by four at the break and moved 7 ahead, 12 minutes into the second half but Moneyglass finished strongly to share the spoils.
All Saints started brightly with points from Harry Connon, Ronan McKillop, Benny McDonnell and McKillop again to lead by four with 10 minutes gone but in virtually their first meaningful attack, Aidan McErlain fired to the net for the visitors to leave just one between the sides.
However All Saints continued to enjoy the better of the first half exchanges as Conor Stewart struck a 2 pointer with Colum Duffin pointing for the visitors in reply.
A James McDonnell point and a goal from the lively Harry Connon in the 19th minute put Baker Bradley’s side five ahead with Colum Duffin 0-2 and Tyler Cassidy bringing the visitors total to 1-5 for the first and Matty Downey and Connell Lemon replying for the home side.
Sean Boyd reduced the gap to three on the restart but Connell Lemon replied with All Saints second 2 pointer of the evening and in a low scoring third quarter, James McDonnell split the posts to move the home side seven ahead by the 12th minute and seemingly in control.
It would be a further 11 minutes before the men in black would raise another flag as visitors St. Ergnat’s dug beep to launch an excellent comeback with points from Sean Boyd, Colum Duffin and Boyd again before Ronan McKillop replied for the hosts.
The momentum was now very much with the men in Blue however with Duffin kicking three on the bounce between the 25th and 27th minutes and further points from Callum Murray and Conleth McCann saw them hit the front and the points looked to be heading the way of the visitors.
All Saints launched one final attack however and Ronan McKillop became their hero of the evening when he sent over the equaliser, two minutes into time added on to earn his side a valuable point.
All Saints: 1 Ryan Stewart, 2 Sean McDermott, 3 Michael Read, 4 Joe Rafferty, 5 Harry Connon, 6 Cal O’Brien, 7 Matthew Downey, 8 Emmet Killough, 9 Peter McReynolds, 10 Connell Lemon, 11 James McDonnell, 12 Conor Stewart, 20 Darrach Bradley, 14 Brendan McDonnell, 15 Ronan McKillop
Moneyglass: 1 James McLaughlin, 2 Eunan McErlain, 3 Matthew Mullen, 4 James McCormick, 5 Callum Murray, 6 Feargasl Duffin, 7 Odhran Duffin, 8 Conleth McCann, 9 Dermott McErlain, 10 Sean Boyd, 11 Colum Duffin, 12 Tyler Cassidy, 13 Charlie McCloskey, 14 Aidan McErlain, 15 Caolan Boyd
Referee: Brendan Toland (Lamh Dhearg)
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