Bredagh win East Down U12 Final - 08/09/2003
EAST DOWN U12
A CHAMPIONSHIP 2003: Bredagh 5-7 Kilcoo 4-3, Saturday, August 30th, Loughinisland
Bredaghs
Conor McCloskey opened the scoring for the Belfast side with a right-footed point,
angling the ball over the bar from out on the left. Minutes later, Niall Wright's
pass dropped in behind the Kilcoo full-back to leave McCloskey with a run on goal.
His shot had too much power for the goalkeeper.
Marcus
Young added a second point and the same player made numerous tackles and blocks
throughout the game. Ruairi Johnston took another point from distance, McCloskey's
speculative left-footed high kick was adjudged to be over the goal-line when the
goalkeeper got his hands to it, Danny Nolan capitalised on a poor kick-out for
the fourth point and then the same player cracked in a brilliant goal after a
sweeping move all the way from the defence, involving Costello, Wright and Fitzpatrick.
Donal Hughes makes a fine catch under pressure.
The large
Bredagh crowd cheered every score as the boys continued to dominate. Paddy Hannity
took a fine point (which incidentally was the team's 100th point in competitive
games this season), McCloskey added another and from a Niall Wright pass Ciaran
Fitzpatrick collected the ball, turned and drilled a low shot into the corner
of the Kilcoo net.
Game over, and it wasn't even half-time.
Early in the second-half, the electric Niall Wright pounced
on a pass from Donal Hughes and beat two defenders before firing a great shot
past the keeper to leave 18 points between the teams. Kilcoo came back like champions
with four goals, but Paddy Woods made some terrific saves and clearances as Bredagh
held out for an historic win.
TEAM & SCORERS:
Paddy
Woods, Damien Moreland, Jamie Cleary, Emmett Costello, Pearse Leitch, Declan O'Hara
(capt), Donal McKegney, Paddy Hannity 0-1, Ruairi Johnston 0-1, Donal Hughes,
Conor McCloskey 2-3, Niall Wright 1-0, Marcus Young 0-1, Ciaran Fitzpatrick 1-0,
Daniel Nolan 1-1.
Subs: Michael Magee for Leitch (half-time),
Leitch for Hannity (51 mins).
