Minors
Minor County League Div 2A– Round 3 Ballymacelligott v Kilcummin–
Ballymacelligott 4-04
Kilcummin 1-14
Our Minor team played their third game in the county league Division 2A against Kilcummin in atrocious conditions on Wednesday evening March 15th.
Ballymac started this game on the front foot and had a penalty converted by Jack Slattery in the second minute and followed two minutes later by another goal from Luke Silles and after 10 minutes Ballymac led Kilcummin 02-00 to 0-02. Luke Silles got his second goal of the game in the 12th minutes and for the rest of the first half points were traded and at half time Ballymac went into the dressing room with a five point lead 03-02 to 00-06.
Ballymac had to withstand constant pressure from Kilcummin throughout the second half. Kilcummin scoring 1-03 without reply inside the first eight minutes of the second half. Ballymac responded with courage following this setback and got a crucial goal from Shane Gilroy in the 41st minute. The rest of the game was end to end and strongly contested throughout with Kilcummin just running out single point winners on a scoreline of Ballymac 04-04 Kilcummin 1-14.
Great credit has to given to our lads who fought and battled throughout the sixty plus minutes and the effort shown only bodes well for the rest of the season.
Well done to our boys for the effort shown on the day.
Luke Silles (2-02), Jack Slattery (1-00) Shane Gilroy(1-00), Eoin Moriarty (0-01) Ciaran O’Connell (0-01)