Junior A Hurling Championship: Erins Own 1-15 SarsFields 0-21

On Sunday evening we played our first round against Sarsfields out in Carrignabhear, it was a game that was neck & neck for the full hour, Cathal Heavy opened our scoring with a point, Alan Bowen added another 2, Martin Buckley hit 3 from free’s, Diarmuid O Flynn put over a free from deep in his own half & James O Carroll rattled the net from a superb run, leaving only a point between the to sides at half time, Erins Own 1-07 Sars 0-11,  in the second half we saw sars hitting 4 points to our 5, James O Carroll with 2, Alan Bowen & Diarmuid O Flynn  hit 1 each & Martin Buckley with 1 from a free, which left things all square at full time 1-12 to Sars 0-15, Extra time was needed to find a winner after 10 minutes we were up by a point thanks to a Martin Buckley free & a point from James O Flynn, the second half we only managed a point by James O Flynn & Sars found the legs to separate the sides by 3 points in the end. Diarmuid O Flynn, Paul Ryan, Patrick Fitzgerald & James O Flynn played well for Erins Own.

Team in full: 1.Paul Ryan 2.Paul Fenton 3.Patrick Fitzgerald 4.Niall Foughy 5.Shane Broderick 6.Diarmuid O Flynn 29.Stephen Cronin 7.Sean Crowley 9.Ronan Carroll 8.Alan Bowen 11.James O Flynn 12.Ian Moylod 13.Cathal Heavy 14.Martin Buckley 15.James O Carroll, Subs used: Michael Murphy for Ian Mylod, Conor Smiddy for Cathal Heavy & Ian Mylod for Ronan Carroll.