Omerbane…..2:03
St.Johns…….2:13
(Omerbane = Glenravel/St.Brigids Cloughmills Amalgamation)
A holiday depleted (Horsey is in Canada!) St.Johns
Minor team travelled to Glenravel on Friday night to
play Omerbane in the league.
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Despite missing personnel St.Johns maintained
their 100% league record with another good win.
Jimmy Peoples opened the Johnnies scoring on
2 minutes with a well converted 25m free from
the left. Omerbane however over the next 7 minutes
missed 4 pointable frees before Colm McFall pointed
a 65 for St.John’s second score.
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warming up
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Aaron Smiley then latched on to a long ball from midfield
to round his marker and pointed from 20m for Omerbane.
Eoghan Caldwell then broke on the left and hand passed
to the centre for Jimmy Peoples to pop over his second
point of the evening. Caldwell then managed to hit the
upright a minute later after some good work out on the
left again. Kevin Kennedy then turned provider for Jimmy
Peoples with some good work and a deft hand pass to
give Peoples another tap over from 25m.
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charging down the ball
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The ‘hand pass to Jimmy show’ then
continued with the industrious Tony Fearon hand
passing to Peoples who took his 4th score of
the game.
Conor Donnelly began to raise his game at midfield
for the glens men at this stage but his good
work was countered when Tony Fearon sidelined
the ball to Dermot Hartigan who worked his way
across the front of Omerbanes goals past two
defenders before blasting to the goal keepers
left with a well placed shot from 20 yards.
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This gave the Johnnies a solid lead of 1:05 to 0:01
with half time approaching.
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Another good move on the left with Caldwell,
Rooney and Fearon combining for Tony Fearon to
point from 20m to give St.Johns a 1:06 to 0:01
half time lead.
Omerbanes inability to take their scores in this
first half would ultimately cost them the game.
They missed 8 pointable frees and had 5 wides
from play during the first half compared with
only 4 misses for the Johnnies in the same period.
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halftime team talk.
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Upon resumption , St.Johns now playing with the wind
,quickly took the game to Omerbane with quick points
from Caldwell & Fearon in the first 5 minutes before
Kevin Kennedy flicked deftly over the bar on 8 minutes
to give St.Johns a 1:09 to 0:01 lead. Aaron Smiley then
replied for Omerbane with a 20m free before Caldwell
pointed again after a 30m run. Conor McStein who up
to then had been having a quiet game by his standards
then pulled on a breaking ball on the ground to give
the South Antrim men a 2:10 to 0:02 commanding lead.
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Omerbane hurlers
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Colm McFall who had switched to full forward
pointed another point after receiving an intelligent
sideline cut from Jimmy Peoples. Liam Knocker
then pointed a 65 for the Johnnies before Omerbane’s
substitute Dean Kerr replied with a goal.
Colm McFall replied with a another point before
Dean Kerr again showed great opportunism to
latch onto the sliotar for his second goal of
the game.
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Colm McFall then replied again with a 25m free fro
the right to finish proceedings.
Although a 10 point victory for the Johnnies , Omerbane
were worth more than the scoreline showed. If they had
brought a free taker with them and started the sharp
Dean Kerr the result could have been a lot different.
Brian O’Neill, Conor Donnelly, Dean Kerr, Stephen
Martin ,Paddy O’Neill & Aaron Smiley had good
games for Omerbane.
St.Johns had reasonable performances from Captain Liam
Knocker, Dermot Hartigan and Jimmy Peoples.
Omerbane: 1.Dave Kane 2.Paul Hughes 3.S.L.Kerr
4.Daniel McLoughlin 5.Kieran Reid 6.Brian O’Neill
7.Shane Woulhan 8.Conor Donnelly© 9.Stephen Martin
10.Damian McGowan 11.Paddy O’Neill 12.Fran McCann
13.Benny Martin 14.Aaron Smiley 15. Matt Rea
Substitute: 16.Dean Kerr
Omerbanes Scorers: Dean Kerr 2:00, Aaron
Smiley 0:03(0:01f).
St.Johns: 1.Aodhan Mulholland 2.Peter
McGarrity 3.Noel Rooney 4.Colm McCrudden 5.Gerard McCann
6.Liam Knocker 7.Barry McFall 8.Colm McFall 9.Dermot
Hartigan 10.Jimmy Peoples 11.Tony Fearon 12.Eoghan Caldwell
13.Conor McStein 14. Kevin Kennedy 15.Aaron McKenna
Substitute: 16.Gerard Carberry
St.Johns Scorers: Jimmy Peoples 0:04(0:01f),
Colm McFall 0:04(1f,1 65), Dermott Hartigan 1:00, Conor
McStein 1:00, Tony Fearon 0:02, Eoghan Caldwell 0:02
Kevin Kennedy 0:01, Liam Knocker 0:01(1
65).
Referee: Leo Heatley
