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Ballycran
minors defeated in Ulster Semi Finals - 18/11/02
Armagh side Keady Lamh Dhearg kept the
Armagh winning ways going when they defeated Down Hurling
minor champions Ballycran 2 - 11 to 2 - 05 in the Bodyline
Leisure Complex Ulster Club Minor Hurling Championship semi
final at Ballinascreen yesterday. Ballycran won the inaugural
Ulster minor league title last week but they struggled to
get into this game.
Ballycran started the brighter side scoring
two points but the Armagh side soon took control of the
game. By half time the Armagh side had shoot themselves
into a 2 - 05 to 0 - 04 lead. The two goals coming from
left corner forward Paul Breen. The first goal coming after
seven minutes. Breen followed this up with a free. Two more
points were added to the board for the Armagh side to put
them four points in front of the Ards men. The second goal
was a well work move from the Armagh defence to full forward
Eugene McDonnell who sent a great cross to Breen, who turned
his marker before burying it into the Ballycran net.
Keady kept up the pressure in the second
half however as in the first half Ballycran started the
brighter scoring a goal in the first minute. However Keady
scored five points to go back into the driving seat. Kevin
Enright scoring two, John O'Neill, and Eugene McDonnell
scoring one each. Ballycran spent the last twenty minutes
trying to score goals. Keady were more than capable of keeping
them out. Ballycran eventually broke through for a goal
on the 27th minute to bring them back to within four points.
However Enright and Breen finished the
scoring to give the winners a more than comfortable victory
than the scoreline suggests.
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