ACL Div.1 Mullingar Shamrocks 3-15 The Downs 0-13

Mullingar Shamrocks extended their unbeaten run in the ACL Div.1 League to six matches with this impressive victory over The Downs on Tuesday evening. It’s been some time since we managed such a sequence.

Shamrocks dominated the early exchanges and in a matter of minutes had 0-3 on the scoreboard with fine points from Dean Moore (0-2) and Ciarán Curley.  Harry Caulfield and Luke  Loughlin had points for The Downs before Denis Corroon kicked a fine long-range point for Shamrocks. Luke Folan and Conor Murray pointed for The Downs to reduce the margin to the minimum. Denis Corroon added two points before Dean Moore netted for Shamrocks after Micheál Curley’s punched-point effort rebounded from the post (1-6 to 0-4). Shamrocks had two great goal scoring opportunities at this stage: the first was blasted wide by Ciarán Curley and the second denied by Trevor Martin in The Downs goal who brilliantly saved from Darren Keena. Prior to this the goalkeeper had pointed a 45. Conor Murray and Darren Keena exchanged points before Harry Caulfield, Luke Folan (playmaker supreme in the first-half) and Luke Loughlin pointed to reduce the deficit to the minimum (1-7 to 0-9). A brilliant Folan pass sent Loughlin through but Philly Shaw was alert to the occasion and saved superbly.  Ciarán Curley had time for one final point before half-time; so too did Luke Loughlin and with Shamrocks leading by 1-8 to 0-10 referee Brendan Keena called for the interval break. Marc Eivers replaced the injured Micheál Curley for the second-half.

Tye Adamson opened the scoring for Shamrocks after the restart with one of his typical long-range boomers and almost immediately, the man who is off to Philadelphia in the morning, created a great goal scoring chance for Dean Moore with a superb run through The Downs defence but the opportunity was spurned. Points from   Paddy Joyce (0-3), Dean Moore (0-2) and Tye Adamson (0-1) completed the fifteen-point total (14 from play); in addition, there were thirteen wides clocked-up. Pádraig McKenna (who replaced the injured Killian Daly) had Shamrocks second goal when he completed a move that began when Philly Shaw collected a long-range point effort from Luke Loughlin. The ball was transferred down field via Mark Butler, Marc Eivers, Efe Siode to Ciarán Curley who delivered the final pass to McKenna who finished to the net for his first senior goal for Shamrocks. Pearse Corroon scored the third goal with a delicate chip over The Downs’ excellent goalkeeper Trevor Martin. A great Philly Shaw save denied The Downs a late goal and limited their second-half total to 0-3. Overall a fine positive team performance by Mullingar Shamrocks that maintains the momentum that began with our victory over Coralstown-Kinnegad. 

Mullingar Shamrocks: Philly Shaw; Eddie Moore, Efe Siode, Mark Butler; Micheál Curley (Marc Eivers), Kieran Gavin, Paddy Joyce (0-3); Denis Corroon (0-3) & Alan Cashman (Conor Twomey); Killian Daly (Pádraig McKenna, 1-0), Dónal O’Donoghue, Tye Adamson (0-2) [Pearse Corroon (1-0); Ciarán Curley (0-2), Dean Moore (1-4), Darren Keena (0-1)

Under-10 Blitz in St Loman’s …

Shamrocks fielded two great teams full of energy and enthusiasm in the St. Loman’s Under-10 Blitz on Tuesday night. Our lads played against St Loman’s, Killucan and Coralstown-Kinnegad. Tremendous skill on display along with tenacious tackling and of course no shortage of point scoring. Well done to all the young Shamrocks men.