Division 1 Victory for Minor A's

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On Sunday 16th May 2010 the Minor A team played Castleknock in the league at Silverpark.

On a lovely morning Crokes had the benefit of a strong breeze for the first half, however Castleknock opened the scoring with two pointed frees before Alex Pilkington scored a point from play. Soon after Castleknock scored another point. However Crokes replied with a goal, due to the forwards forcing the goalkeeper into making a mistake, before Justin Cassidy kicked the ball to the net. The remainder of the first half was very close with Crokes only adding two pointed frees from Jonathan Hayes, despite having a lot of possession. At half time the score was Crokes 1 4 Castleknock 0 3.

 

In the second half it was again very close with Castleknock drawing level despite Robert Murphy scoring a fine point soon after his move to centre forward. After 15 minutes the match started to turn Crokes way. Again the keeper and backs were harried to distraction and Robert Murphy got the final touch to knock the ball to the net. Jonathan Hayes was in great form with placed balls and scored 3 65s against the wind in the second half. With 5 minutes to go Crokes moved the ball quickly out of the full back line to Stephen Beale who fed Dillon Mulligan in the middle of the field. Dillon hit a lovely ball for Alex Pilkington to run onto and raise the green flag again. Alex then pointed twice more before the end.

 

Overall this was a good performance by Crookes with Dillon Mulligan and Tom Clarke at the heart of everything. James O'Keeffe played well at centre back ably assisted by Stephen Beale. Sean Boyd yet again had a magnificent match seeing off 3 different players and Sean Garvey kept a clean sheet and organized his defence well.

 

Final Score Crokes 3 10 Castleknock 0 11

Scorers: Jonathan Hayes 0 6 (3 65's 3 frees) Alex Pilkington 1 3 Robert Murphy 1 1 Justin Cassidy 1 0

 

Team: Sean Garvey Sean Boyd Robert Murphy Emmet Doherty Stephen Beale Enda Grogan Gary Melican Dillon Mulligan Mark O'Dwyer Alex Pilkington James O'Keeffe Tom Clarke Jonathan Hayes Ken Kelly. Subs John Huban for Justin Cassidy Conor O'Dwyer for Emmet Doherty

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