Meath make it 2 wins from 2 outings
Meath 5-18 Louth 6-6
Meath 5-18 Louth 6-6
It was a beautiful evening for football and a great one for goals in the first of the Round 2 games of the Gerry Reilly U-16 FT played in Millbrook, Oldcastle.
Louth’s Cathal Fleming opened the scoring with a point, but then Meath replied with6 unanswered points by the 11th minute. Meath were coasting to victory and made many changes. They led by 5-17 to 2-5 with less than 10 minutes to go when Louth had a purple patch with 4 goals on the trot to reduce the arrears. Adam Kelly finished a great move to the Louth net for Meath’s first goal which had started with Colin Hawdon. Meath now led by 1-6 to 0-1. Louth replied with 3 points to narrow the gap. Bryan McCormack got Meath’s second goal and Louth’s Daire Nally cancelled that out at the other end with Louth’s first goal. Meath were certainly unlucky not to have another goal with successive goals attempts of the crossbar and finally off the post.
Joseph Connor’s goal for Louth left 3 points between the sides. However Meath added 2 points (Brian O’Hanlon and Luke Mitchell(f)) to their tally just before the break.
H/T: Meath 2-9 Louth 2-4
On the restart it was all Meath and went on to lead by 5-17 to 2-5 with some terrific movements and scores.
Louth then had a terrific purple patch with 4 goals on the trot (including a converted penalty).
It was certainly a night with the attacks of both teams on top. Overall Meath were the stronger team, but they would have to be concerned about all the goals conceded.
Meath’s Colin Hawdon was presented with the RESPA ‘Man of the match’ award by John Farrelly (Oldcastle GFC)
Meath: Sean Brennan, Conor Hetherton, Luke Newe, Conor Farrelly, Colin Hawdon, Jaeic Timmons, Luke Kelly, Adam Reilly (0-1), Killian Hogan, Adam Treanor, Darragh Swaine (0-4), Bryan McCormack (2-1), Adam Kelly (2-2), Luke Mitchell (1-6,3f), Brian O’Hanlon (0-3).
Subs: Cathal McCormack (0-1) for O’Hanlon, Sean Commons for Mitchell, Ian Bermingham for Adam Kelly, Sean Martyn for Treanor, Karl Cassidy for Newe, Sean Coughlan for Brennan
Louth: James McGillick, Craig Callan, Nathan Buckley, Finbarr Lynch, Andrew Lennon, Paul McEvoy, Captain, James Harper, Gabriel Bell, Rúairí Hanlon, Seán Healy, Dáire Nally (1-2), Cathal Fleming (2-2), Mícheál Begley, Joseph Connor, Jonathan Commins (3-1)
Subs: Craig Lennon (0-1) for Healy, Jamie Winters for A Lennon, Jay Crawley for Callan, Martin McEneaney for Bell, Padraig Duffy for Hanlon, Gerard Whitew for McEvoy
Ref: Michael Lee (Cavan)