Tues. June 2nd. Red FM I.H.L.

 

 Blackrock 2 – 20 V 4 – 16 Watergrasshill @ Chruch Road.

Report by Roger Ryan

In a high-scoring game at Church Road on Tuesday evening our Intermediate Hurlers lost out to Watergrasshill by the narrow margin of 2 points.

Despite conceding 3 goals in the first half we still only trailed by 3 points at half time thanks to some excellent point scoring by our boys. The half time score read Blackrock 0 – 13, Watergrasshill 3 – 07. Our scorers in this half were,

Eoin Coughlan 0 – 05, Lee O'Sullivan 0 – 02, Peter Linehan 0 – 02,Fionn O'Keeffe 0 – 01, Shane O'Keeffe 0 – 01, Riain O'Riordan 0 01, Ian O'Keeffe 0 – 01.

Watergrasshill increased their lead to 5 points but Riain O'Riordan with a point and Eoin Coughlan with a goal from a penalty had us within a point of them.

It was tit for tat from there until the final 10 minutes when Watergrasshill scored their 4th goal to push ahead by 6 points 1 – 18 to 4 – 15. In a late flurry we scored a point and with time running out, Peter Linehan scored a goal before the Ref blew full time leaving us trailing by 2 points 2 – 20 to 4 – 16.

Our Overall scorers were: Eoin Coughlan 1 – 08( 07f, Goal Pen.), Peter Linehan 1 – 03, Lee O'Sullivan 0 – 02, Fionn O 'Keeffe 0 01, Shane O'Keeffe 0 – 01, Riain O'Riordan 0 – 02, Ian O'Keeffe 0 – 01, Alex Geary 0 – 01,Ciarán Cormack 0 01.

Team: Ross Browne, James Ryan, Diarmuid Cormack, Richie Laide, Lee O'Sullivan, Ciarán Cormack, Gary Norberg, Peter Linehan, Sean Healy, Eoin Coughlan, Ian O'Keeffe, Riain O'Riordan, Eoin O'Farrell, Shane O'Keeffe, Fionn O'Keeffe.

Subs Used: Alex Geary, Ollie Mc Adoo.

Referee: Mark Maher, St.Finbarrs.