Melview …… 8-8 St. Michael’s …… 4-2

Match report by Ray Donlon

Melview overcome a strong St. Michael’s side

Melview and St. Michael’s played their round three game of the in Longford Slashers and going into this game both sides had good wins recently with St. Michael’s having a convincing win over Newtownforbes and Melview overcoming Edgeworthstown. Melview in the end came away with a good win but the score does not reflect the game as St. Michael’s fought hard and in the end were unlucky with Melview coming out on top with the final score readying Melview 7-5 to St. Michael’s 4-2.

Melview registered the first score of the game with Padraig O’Reilly slotting over a brilliant point from play. Robert Kennedy then pointed Melview’s next score of the game of with a nice point. Thomas Kelly was then on the mark for Melview with a well struck point from play. Melview went on to record the next score once more coming from a lovely point from play from Thomas Kelly. Melview were four points up with nine minutes gone on the clock.

Coming off an excellent move down the centre of the field by Melview with Thomas Kelly hitting a cracking shot with it landing in the back of the St. Michael’s net. Melview then scored their second goal on the trot with Paul Devine smacking it to the back of the net this time. Melview who were the stronger side overall with them recording all the scores of the game in the first twenty-five minutes of the first half.

Thomas Kelly was once again on the mark for Melview when he fired over a well-taken point from play. St. Michael’s finally started to play some good football with them then scoring 1-1 in the space of two minutes with the first of them coming from Michael Stokes with a well-taken point. St. Michael’s goal then came from Jamie Mulligan hitting a cracking shot to the back of the Melview net. To leave the score at halftime Melview 2-5 to St. Michael’s 1-1.

Melview got off to the better start in the second half with Sean Flynn scoring a super goal from play one minute into the second half. St. Michael’s who never dropped the heads all during the game then scored a fabulous goal from play when Mark Mulligan was on the mark again with him scoring a lovely goal from play. Paul Devine however for Melview was on the spot once again with him winning a lovely ball and going through to fire home another super goal from play.

St. Michaels notched the next point of the game with Martin Nevin sending over an excellent point from long range. Melview once again took control of the of the game with Morgan Kelly who was not on the field five minutes scored 1-1 with the first of them a well-taken point from play and then from the St. Michael’s kick out he won a lovely ball again and sold the dummy and fired home a magical goal.

Thomas Kelly recorded the next two scores of the game with the first of them a lovely point from play, Kelly then went on to score Melview’s next goal of the game with him hitting a cracking shot to the back of the net. Melview’s next point came from one of the younger players on the field Franklin O’Reilly who fired over a brilliant point from long range.

Melview’s next goal also came from another one of the younger stars with Daniel Mimnagh firing a long range shot with it landing so perfectly in the top corner of the St. Michael’s net to put Melview well on the way now to victory. St. Michael’s did record one more goal before the end with Martin Nevin scoring it from play. Melview also registered their seventh goal of the game with Paul Devine on the mark once again.

This was a very exciting game contest played by two of the local town schools with Melview in the end having a good win. But the St. Michael’s side did to their credit try extremely hard and never stopped trying from start to finish.

MELVIEW: Harry Hughes; Michael Farrell, Sean Monaghan, Daniel Philips; Matthew Dowler, Simon Kiernan, Padraig O’Reilly (0-1); Thomas Kelly (2-3), Robert Kennedy (0-1); Sean Flynn (1-0), Mark Valentine, Gary Reilly; Rory Higham, Paul Devine (3-1), Ciaran Devine.

SUBS USED:- David Mimnagh for C Devine (18 mins); Morgan Kelly (1-1) for R Higham (30 mins); Daniel Mimnagh (1-0) for S Kiernan (35 mins); Franklin O’Reilly (0-1) for D Mimnagh (40 mins).

ST. MICHAEL’S: Jason Cody; Derek Carrigy, Chris Warnock, Aidan Cody; Shane McDermott, Michael Stokes (0-1), Shane Kelly; Shaun Hughes, Martin Nevin (1-0); Tommy Stokes, Mark Mulligan (2-0), Shaun Kane; Rory Lattimore (0-1), Mark Stokes (1-0), Robert Sheridan.

SUBS USED: Jamie Delvin, Mario Costello.

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