On Saturday
morning last in glorious sunshine, Clonakilty U12 footballers were our guests
in Wolfe Tone Park.
From the throw-in Bantry were ready for the challenge and Ciaran Thornton
opened the scoring with a point, quickly followed by one from Kevin Clifford.
Clonakilty got into the game and took the lead with a goal. The first half
continued as a very even contest with further Blues points from Ciaran
Thornton, Keelan Lynch, Paddy O’Neill and Ayrton Doyle but Clon held the lead
by the minimum at the break at 1-4 to six points.
The second half
proved to be a very entertaining affair with plenty of scores. Bantry finished
on a scoreline of 4-13(25) but went down by a kick of a ball to Clonakiltys
7-07(28). Ayrton Doyle grabbed 2-3 over the half with Paddy O’Neill and Aiden
O’Sullivan also getting on the scoresheet.
Team: Hugh
Fitzgerald, Matthew Harley, Greg Cotter, Keelan Lynch (0-1), Barry O’Shea,
Charlie Lavin, Ayrton Doyle (2-4), Kevin Clifford, Aiden O’Sullivan (1-1),
Paddy O’Neill (1-5), Ciaran Thornton(0-2), Daniel Downey.
The following
Monday evening Bantry’s U13 hurlers made the short journey to Aughaville to
take on Tadhg Mac Carthaigh. With the Blues team missing a couple of players
through injury, the Caheragh lads had the best of the first half and were
leading by 2-5 to 1-1 at half time, Killian Crowley the Bantry goalscorer.
The home team
got a few early goals and it looked like they were going to run out easy
winners but a good closing quarter from Bantry brought them back into the game.
Unfortunately time ran out for them and it finished Tadhg Mac Carthaigh 5-09,
Bantry Blues 2-09. Fine displays all round with James O’Shea good in goals with
David O’Sullivan clearing a lot of ball in defence, ably assisted by Greg
Cotter and Oisin Bennett. Tom Flynn played well at midfield with James Crowley
also having a good second half.
Team: James O’Shea, Oisin Bennett, David
O’Sullivan, James Buckley, Greg Cotter, Billy Foley(1-3), Shane Buckley, Tom
Flynn, Killian Crowley(1-0), Patrick Barry, Shane Murray(0-6,2F)James Crowley,
Timmy O’Driscoll, Keelan Lynch, Michael Cronin.