Antrim Football League Division One.
Con Magees Glenravel 2-14 Patrick Sarsfields 5-07
Sarsfields’ centre three-quarters, Jay Maguire, was his team’s hero when they beat Glenravel on Sunday at Fr Maginn Park in Division 1 of the Antrim Football League.
As well as scoring a hat-trick of goals and a two-pointer, Maguire also landed the winning score when Glenravel fought back to level matters in injury time.
Glenravel had started well in the opening half and an Eamon Fyfe goal gave them an early lead, but the Paddies hit back with two goals of their own, one from Conall McMahon and the other from Maguire. Fyfe grabbed another goal for the home team, and things looked good for them when they went to the dressing room at half time with a two-point lead. Glenravel 2-5, Sarsfields 2-3.
Glenravel increased the lead to three points in the first minute of the second half, but Sarsfields hit back with three goals in a seven-minute spell that turned the game on its head. Maguire claimed two of those goals to complete his hat-trick, his third a fantastic individual score when he ran through from midfield and gave Conleth O’Loan in the Glenravel goal no chance.
Glenravel were reeling and for ten minutes they struggled to find any rhythm in their play. However, in the last ten minutes they started to put a few decent moves together, helped by a two-pointer from Rian Lennon they drew level as the game went into injury time. It looked like the home side had earned a precious league point in their battle against relegation, but following the equalising point, Sarsfields won the ball from the kick out and were given a free 40 metres from goal. Cometh the hour, cometh the man up stepped Maguire once again and drilled the ball high between the posts to send his team back to the Bear Pit with both league points.
Pádraig Sáirséil CLG (Sarsfields) 1 Brian McCaul, 2 Martin McPolin, 4 Jay Ward, 5 Philip McPeake, 6 Liam Mitchell, 7 Daragh Gorman, 8 Caolan McKernan, 9 Conor Moley, 10 Conall McMahon, 11 Jay Maguire, 12 Fionn Jemfrey, 13 Tomas Skillen, 15 Conor Glenholmes,
Subs – 27 Niall Ferris, and 30 Connor Laverty.
Conn Mag Aoidh (Con Magees) 1 Conleth O’Loan, 2 Conor Carey, 3 Eoin McCusker, 4 Charlie Henry, 5 Cathal Hynds, 6 Niall Swann, 7 Rian Lennon, 8 Calum Higgins, 9 David Higgins, 10 Niall Hynds, 11 Eoin Hynds, 12 Joe Martin, 13 Shea O Broin, 14 Eamon Fyfe,
16 Jude Scullion, 18 Luke McQuillan, 19 Conor McQuillan, 22 Sean Higgins, 23 Cormac McKeown, 24 Aidan O’Donnell, 25 Fergus Donaghy, 26 Sean Paul Mckenna, 27 Ryan McQuillan, 28 Joseph McKay, and 29 Oisin McKeown
