Junior Hurling

The club’s second hurling teams won two matches in the last week. On Tuesday evening last the second team won the ACHL 2C fixture against Buffer’s Alley by 1-19 to 0-3 (HT 0-7 to 0-2). Man of the match was Eoin Lacey, who has recently returned after a long injury. He scored 1-9 including 2 pointed sideline cuts, 5 frees and 1-2 from play. The other scorers were Dave Bury (0-4, 3 frees), Bernard O’Gorman (0-2), David Banville, Tom O’Gorman, Martin Coady, and David Morrissey (0-1) each.

On Saturday evening the club defeated Horeswood in the Junior B championship by 2-11 to 3-6. Many of the players involved in the second team in the league are unavailable for Junior B championship having played in the Junior A championship. This made team selection easy. Eoin Lacey was available and his accurate long frees were crucial to the success. In total he scored 1-7. At half time Horeswood lead by 1-4 to 0-5. For the second half Nicholas Cousins was switched from goalkeeper to corner forward and Eoin Lacey from midfield to full forward which improved the potency of the attack. Junior A team manager John Waters came on as a substitute in the second half and scored a point. Michael O’Gorman and Shane Coady also registered points. The result means that there is now a 3-way tie in the group between Taghmon-Camross, Horeswood and Gusserane for the two district semi-final spots.

The first teams plays the postponed ACHL 2A home fixture against Clonard on Saturday evening. The New Ross district U-21 football final against Horeswood may be played on Friday evening in Grantstown.