Seneschalstown 5-10 St. Colmcille’s 1-08

Seneschalstown made it a day of double celebration for the club when the second team followed the Senior teams lead by also claiming victory over St. Colmcille’s in the newly rebranded Meath Cleaning Supplies Junior All County Football Championship Division 1 Group B Round 1 encounter in the second game of the double header between the clubs in Stamullen on Saturday afternoon.

After an opening half which was nip and tuck, Seneschalstown put the foot down after break and raced clear in the second period, outscoring their opponents 3-07 to 0-02 for a fourteen point victory.

Both teams got more joy playing into the light breeze that was blowing into the scoreboard corner and it was St. Colmcille’s who got the opening two points of the game in the second and ninth minutes. Seneschalstown had to wait 11 minutes to open their tally when Jamie Norris came forward to kick a 45’ from his goalkeeping berth. They were level minutes later when Collie Scanlon, who had come to make an impact in the earlier SFC game kicked his first score of the hour.

The Cilles regained their lead in the very next attack but the game was tied up again midway through the half through Charles McCarthy, a member of last year’s Minor team.   In the 17th minute, Seneschalstown got in for their first goal. Collie Scanlon played a deft ball over the top of the St. Colmcille’s defence which found Seán Davis unmarked in behind and he made no mistake as he dispatched the ball beyond the goalkeeper for the first green flag of the afternoon.

It was St. Colmcille’s though, who reacted better to the goal as the clawed their way back into the game. Seneschalstown hadn’t scored since the goal when St. Colmcille’s levelled the game at 1-03 to 0-06 courtesy of white and orange flag scores and it got worse for Seneschalstown a minute later when the east Meath outfit bagged a goal of their own to go three points ahead a minute before the regulation thirty minutes was up.

Despite the setback, Seneschalstown responded in the best possible fashion in first half injury time. A high ball in towards the St. Colmcille’s goal was let bounce and Will Finegan jumped for the ball with the goalkeeper. The Seneschalstown man got his hand to the ball first and on it’s way into the net it deflected off the onrushing Neil Darby before the umpire went for the green flag. It was level at the break, 2-03 to 0-06.

The sides swapped points in the opening seven minutes of the second period with James Conlon on target for the men in blue and from here the winners would go onto dominate the remainder of the game. A key turning point in the game was a goal from Conlon in the 37th minute when he eventually forced the ball over the line after his initial effort was saved.

A point for St. Colmcille’s in the 41st minute reduced the gap to two points once more but this would be the last time the Seasiders would score as it was all one way traffic from there on.

Conlon fired over a point to add to his goal before substitute Kyle Hosie got in for Seneschalstown’s fourth goal when Conlon let a long delivery go over his head into Hosie’s path and he did the rest.

Conlon was beginning to really enjoy himself, and he added two further points either side of a Seán Carey effort which left the three goals between the sides at 4-08 to 1-08 with little over ten minutes to go.

The last ten minutes were a bit scrappy with the game over as a contest and substitutes being brought in. The other Hosie, Cian, kicked his first point of the day from a right sided free off his left foot but his brother Kyle wasn’t finished finding the back of the net however. After a mazy run in from the sideline between a number of challenges he kept his composure to emphatically finish to the net for his second and Seneschalstown’s fifth goal of the game with seven minutes to go.

To round off their tally for the day, Seneschalstown finished as they started as Jamie Norris landed a ’45 to complete a great days work for the club as a whole, in complete contrast to opening day twelve months ago when St. Colmcille’s won both Senior and Junior games at the same venue.

Seneschalstown will look to kick on the All-County Junior Football Championship when they play away to Wolfe Tones in Páirc Baile Gib on Tuesday August 19th at 7:30pm in Round 2.

Seneschalstown: Jamie Norris (0-02, 2 45’s), Liam Maguire, Eoghan McGuaran, Ryan Finnegan, Cormac Carolan, Liam Dillon, Charles McCarthy (0-01), Will Finegan, Mattie Cowley, Neil Darby (1-00), Cian Hosie (0-01f), Jack McDonnell, Seán Davis (1-00), James Conlon (1-04), Collie Scanlon (0-01).

Subs: Kyle Hosie (2-00), Seán Carey (0-01), Jamie Kirwan, John Smith, Ryan O’Dowd, Joe Norris, Seán Reilly

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