Kilcoo
bury Burren in 2003 SFC - 16/08/2003
Down
Senior Football Championship first round: Kilcoo 2-05 Burren 0-10
Former All Ireland Champions Burren were defeated by a young
Kilcoo side in Hilltown last night. Kilcoo owe their victory to two goals which
they scored early in the first half. In a two minute spell between the sixth and
eighth minute Kilcoo hit the Burren net twice.
Burren opened
the scoring with Gavin Murdock, James McCartan and Paddy Bradley all scoring to
put Burren three points up with only six minutes gone. Kilcoo forward Gary McEvoy
then shocked the Burren defence when he lobbed the Burren keeper to level the
game. Two minutes later a brilliant through ball from Dominic McEvoy set up Mark
Brannigan for Kilcoo's second goal. Both sides exchanged points as Kilcoo went
in at half time two point up - Kilcoo 2-02 to Burren's 0-06.
As
in the first half Burren got the opening scores through James McCartan and Gavin
Murdock. The sides once again exchanged scores through Kevin Morgan and Ronan
McGovern.
A Mark Brannigan free put Kilcoo back in the lead
and five minutes later he added another to put Kilcoo two points in front with
only a few minutes remaining. Burren throw everything they had at Kilcoo in the
search for the winning goal, which would have taken them into the next round of
the Down Senior Championship and PJ McAlinden seemed to be through for that goal
but it was brilliantly saved by Kilcoo keeper James Kane. In the final minutes
Gavin Murdock scored a point to narrow Kilcoo's lead to a point, but Calico held
out for what will be seen as a famous victory and the second major shock in the
Down Championship after Newry Shamrock defeating Clonduff the previous night.
