ACL Div.5: Mullingar Shamrocks 0-13 Rosemount 0-11

Mullingar Shamrocks had a welcome and deserved victory over Rosemount in this ACL Div.5 match played in Springfield on Friday evening. This was a good game of football between two evenly matched teams played at a decent pace with some fine displays of skill evident from players on both sides. From the Shamrocks perspective, the improvement was noticeable as players become more familiar with the football as they commit to their training. The sides were level at half-time with Rosmount probably the more dominant but they failed to transfer this to the score board. David Gavin opened the scoring for Shamrocks, Pearse Corroon added two from frees, Stephen Hassett added another before Ross Corroon hit a great long range effort. Pearse Corroon scored the sixth point with a neat left footed finish.

Roles were reversed in the second half with Shamrocks the more dominant. Rosemount kicked the opening point but this was quickly neutralised with a David Gavin effort; Kenneth O’Reilly, Ross and Pearse pointed without any response from Rosemount to send Shamrocks into a 0-10 to 0-7 lead. Rosemont pointed but Conor Twomey (making a comeback to active service) responded in similar manner (0-11 to 0-8). Rosemount added two; Kenneth O’ Reilly scored with a great effort from close to the sideline but Rosemount were good for one more point (0-12 to 0-11) and with their final attack were wide from a good scoring position. Shamrocks gained and retained possession and with their final attack Conor Bracken pointed, this time from even closer to the sideline, before referee Alan Coyne ended the evening’s sport.

Mullingar Shamrocks: Kilian White; Ryan Blundell, James Shaw, Eamonn Breslin; Neil Hannigan, Ross Corroon (0-2), Stephen Hassett [0-1] (Daragh White); Nathan Smith (Conor Bracken 0-1) and James Grogan; Pearse Corroon [0-3] (Seán Wylie), Robbie Ryland (Kieran O’ Mara), Kenneth O’Reilly [0-2] (Matthew Kelly); Gary Corroon (Niall Kevin), David Gavin (0-2), Conor Twomey (0-1).