John Brennan 

On Friday night Glasdrumman were the visitors to top four contenders Ballyholland who were eager to avenge their result in Glasdrumman earlier in the season. Two points from Shane Mulholland and Robbie Quinn opened the scoring for Ballyholland but Glasdrumman responded with a Cormac Murphy point. At this early stage there was already a scent of goals in the air. Young Connaire Harrison, when clean through, was most unfortunately denied a goal chance by the strangest of refereeing decisions. Inspired by this let off Ballyholland responded with points from Paul Murphy and Ronan Murtagh before Connaire Harrison pulled one back for Glasdrumman in the twelfth minute. A minute later the first goal came when Ronan Murtagh found the back of the Glasdrumman net. Inspired by this Ballyholland moved up a gear adding a further three points to their tally with two from John Barry and one from Ronan Murtagh. The pressure on Glasdrumman was further added to when Ronan Murtagh’s fisted effort found the Glasdrumman net. Although Glasdrumman were to enjoy their best period of the match in the closing minutes of the half, striking four points, two from Connaire Harrison and one each from Cormac Murphy and Raymond Clarke, to a solitary response from John Barry, there was still eight between them at halftime with the score line Ballyholland 2-8 Glasdrumman 0-6.
Glasdrumman started the start the second period a lot sharper and Raymond Clarke opened the scoring with a first minute point and again they were denied a goal chance when Mattie Shields was called upon to make a great stop with the goalkeeper beaten when the ball seemed to stick in the mud inches short of the Ballyholland line. Inspired by this let off Ballyholland effectively killed off the game with points from Robbie Quinn and Ronan Murtagh, a goal from Tony Havern and four more unanswered points, two from Murtagh and one each from Paddy McAnulty and Murphy. Although the game was out of their reach Glasdrumman plugged away to the end, and got the last three scores of the game, one each from Cormac Murphy, Connaire Harrison and James McDowell to leave the final score Ballyholland 3-14 Glasdrumman 0-10.

Glasdrumman: Ronan McDowell, Shaun McVeigh, Kevin Burns, Daniel McCartan, Colm Carr, Brian Burns, Art McCartan, Pat Mallon, Declan Grant, Connaire Harrison (0-4), Cormac Murphy (0-3), Martin O’Neill, James McDowell (0-1), Raymond Clarke (0-2), Sean McDowell,

Subs used: Christopher McDowell for Shaun McVeigh, Gary McGreevy for Declan Grant, Shane Feeney for Sean McDowell.

Ballyholland: Kieran Murphy; Anton Haughey, Damien Campbell, Paul McAteer; Paddy McAnulty (0-1), Mattie Shields, John Barry (0-4); Paddy McKernan, Paul Murphy (0-1); Robbie Quinn (0-1), Shane Mulholland (0-1), Tony Havern (1-0), Mark O’Hare, Ronan Murtagh (2-5), Colman Smith. Subs used: S Fitzpatrick, K Dunne, Paddy McAteer, J Murphy (0-1), C McAteer.

***  Friday night’s senior match is against Attical in the championship quarter final in Ballymartin commencing at 6.45pm.

*** Go Games training on Wednesday night at 7.30 and on Sunday morning.

***   New club jerseys are now available for ages 5/6, 7/8 and 9/10. Contact Terry Joyce on 43767450 for more details

***   Bingo as usual in the clubrooms on Thursday night commencing at 8.30pm.