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St Lomans Mullingar 3.08 Ballymore 3.07

St Lomans left it late before picking up maximum points against a determined Ballymore side in Lakepoint Park under floodlights on Friday evening last.

Despite the scoreboard showing St. Lomans trailing by four points at half time they had actually played quite well and displayed some attractive football at times. It was the concession of three goals in the opening twenty minutes (goals that varied from sloppy to fortunate) that left St Lomans facing an uphill struggle. However, the Blues refused to panic and they chipped away with some nice points coming from Tristan Johnson, Chris Gilbert, Garrett Hickey and Eoin Fox whilst it was Evan Meleady that hit the Ballymore net. The score at half time read St. Lomans 1-5 to Ballymore’s 3-3.

During half-time several positional changes were made along with one substitute being introduced for the second half all of which paid early dividends. Enda Lambden was brought out to midfield and played excellently throughout while Hickey was moved to full forward and distributed the ball superbly whilst bagging another 1-2 for himself. The substitute Stephen Sheridan scored a cracking goal and Senan Russell scored a screamer after initially winning the ball from his own corner back position. With ten minutes to go St. Lomans had finally levelled the game and most Ballymore attacks were being repelled by the likes of Sean Kelly, Jack Tyrrell and the excellent Seanie Dinnegan. The lead changed hands several times from there on in but when referee Ken Daly blew the final whistle The Blues had held on for a very deserved win.

Team; Joe Matthews (C), Sean Regan, Sean Kelly, Senan Russell (1-0), Jack Tyrrell, Seanie Dinnegan, Tristian Johnson (0-1), Eoghan O’Keeffe, Chris Gilbert (0-1), Michael Gleeson, Garett Hickey (1-3), Eoin Fox (0-2), Evan Meleady (1-0), Enda Lambden, Conor Matthews. Subs Used; Gerry Farrell, Stephen Sheridan (1-0), Andrew McKenna, Ryan Cleary.