St Colmcille’s Under 17 footballers, in what is the new Minor grade, struck for a great win today in the Division 1 Championship Semi Final against our near neighbours Glanmire, at their grounds in Sallybrook.
Coming into the game as underdogs – afterall Glanmire were playing down a grade having won the Premier 1 County Championship at this age last year – our team never bought into that narrative and tore into it from the start. A 6 point lead was built up by the first-water break and that was stretched to 7 at half-time.
This was built on the performance of the backs who brilliantly snuffed out every attack, with Kevin Fitzpatrick and Martin Murphy particularly prominent. Robert Docherty dominated around the middle and Luke Kelleher was on song upfront.
After several goal attempts the net was finally struck by PJ O Donovan to seal the result and we ran out winners on a score-line of 1-14 to 0-05. Onto the final now for this great bunch, CLCG Naomh Colmcille Abú