ACHL Division 3
Armoy 3-24 St. Brigid’s 2-17
When Naomh Brid headed to the dressing room at half time, trailing by only three points but with the stiff breeze to come on their backs for the second half they must have fancied their chances of causing an upset.
Their opponents Glen Rovers, Armoy had other ideas however and in a blistering opening to the second half Thomas Burns pointed, Owen Kinney fired home their second goal and Emmet O’Hara and Trevor Linton added further points.
Kinney added the Glen Rovers second goal before free taker James Kelly finally got the visitors opening point in the 7th minute but by that stage Armoy were 11 clear and it was going to take something special to turn this one around.
It was Trevor Linton who led the Armoy charge during the opening period as he fired over three points to add to an opening score from Kieran McToal and another from PJ McBride had the hosts 0-5 to 0-2 ahead after a lively opening 7 minutes with the Naomh Brid points both coming from James Kelly frees.
James Kelly who gave a fine exhibition of free taking for Naomh Brid and (Above-featured image) Trevor Linton who was in devastating form for Glen Rovers
The visitors suffered a bad blow when their keeper, Matthew Madden was injured in a collision with Trevor Linton as the Armoy striker chased a dropping ball and flicked over the Naomh Brid keeper’s head at the expense of a goal.
Madden had to be stretchered off after receiving medical treatment with John McGuckian taking over between the sticks and Chris Lundy entering the action, requiring a reshuffle in the Brid’s defence.
After a long stoppage the action got underway again with Linton pointing a 16th minute free before ace free taker, James Kelly raided the visitor’s third white flag.
Naomh Brid had been second best for nearly all of the opening exchanges but slowly they began to get to grips with McGuckian finding players from his puck outs and a great end to end move saw David Prenter fire to the net in the 23d minute.
As the game moved into an extensive period of first half injury time, Brian McGurk added a second for the Musgrave Park side to close the gap to the minimum with Emmet O’Hara, Eamonn McCaughan and Trevor Linton for Armoy and McGurk for St. Brigid’s exchanging late points to leave it 1-13 to 2-7 for the men from the Glen as Ryan O’Reilly sounded his half time whistle.
Those hopes of a second half comeback for the visitors were quickly dashed in a whirlwind opening period by the home side as they added 2-3 without reply and it was a period that Naomh Brid never recovered from despite another exhibition of free taking from James Kelly for the visitors.
Armoy goal scorer, Owen Kinney is challenged by Jack Pardy
Almost single handed, Kelly would keep the scoreboard ticking for St. Brigid’s from a series of frees and a couple of excellent points from play while Phelim Lennon was also on target but the damage was already done.
Trevor Linton, who was excellent throughout continued to find the target and Tarlach McBride concluded the evenings action from his second long range free of the half to give Glen Rovers what was a comfortable victory in the end.
Armoy: 1 Conor Watterson, 2 Callum Mort, 3 Liam Dillon, 4 Joseph McFetridge, Timothy Burns 6 Tarlach McBride, 7 Kieran McToal, 8 PJ McBride, 9 Conor Christie, 10 Thomas Burns, 11 Eamonn McCaughan, 12 Emmet O’Hara, 13 Trevor Linton, 14 Owen Kinney, 15 Liam O’Hara
Subs: 19 Callum Coyles
Naomh Brid: 1 Matthew Madden, 2 Ronan O’Loughlin, 3 John McGuckian, 4 James Massingham, 5 Jack Pardy, 6 Phelim Lennon, 7 Dara Sidebottom, 8 Cathal Conway, 9 Joseph McCarney, 10 James Bready, 11 Brian McGurk, 12 James Kelly, 13 David Prenter, 14 Conor Leonard, 15 Oisin McDonnell
Subs: 17 Chris Lundy, 19 James McCarney, 20 Pearse Hamill
Referee: Ryan O’Reilly (Glenravel)
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