East Down U-16 League Section B: Darragh Cross 0-09 Dundrum 2-04
By
Marc Mac Siomoin
[marc_mac_siomoin@yahoo.co.uk]
With thirty seconds remaining on the
clock Darragh Cross must have thought
that they were home and dry. They had
just slammed over four scores in
succession to put themselves in the lead
by two points.
Dundrum looked down and out. The seconds
were ticking away. Then all of a sudden
a tense silence was broken by a mentor
on the sideline. 'Remember the Abbey!',
he yelled.
At
this point Dundrum attacker Sean
O'Rourke picked up a breaking ball
around the middle of the park. He then
set off goalwards drawing a host of
Darragh Cross defenders to him.
This gave Conal McKee space wide on the
left. O'Rourke then quickly offloaded
the leather to McKee who darted towards
Duncan Miskelly's goal. Without a hint
of hesitation McKee let fly from thirty
yards out. The ball glided through the
air before smashing Miskelly's net. It
was despair for Darragh and delight for
Dundrum.
McKee might have replicated Chris
Coffey's heroics on St Patrick's Day but
over the hour Darragh may have just
deserved the win. They went in at the
break a point down. An early goal from
Dundrum's Sean O'Rourke dented Darragh's
early ambitions but they came back and
scored five points over the course of
half an hour. However, this was offset
by further Dundrum points from O'Rourke
(0-02) and Warnock (0-01).
The
second half saw both teams hit a lot of
wides. Darragh also managed to hit the
bar twice. O'Rourke opened the Duns
second half account but Darragh went on
to nail four scores in a row over a
twenty five minute period. In truth they
could of had a lot more.
The
final five minutes saw the St Mochai's
Park outfit hold on to the ball wisely.
Dundrum were hardly given a sniff of the
O'Neills as their opponents tried to
cling on to their lead. Then as the
final thirty seconds arrived Dundrum
performed a Houdini. O'Rourke the
creator, McKee the very grateful
recipient.
Dundrum: E.King, P.Mageean, R.Melville,
D.Brennan, C.Carville, C.McKee (1-00),
R.Carville, R.Cardwell, A.Mageean,
C.Miskelly, S.O'Rourke (1-03, 1 Free),
B.Cunningham, A.O'Hare, B.Warnock
(0-01), C.Magee. Subs: C.Mageean,
D.Cunningham.
