SEXTON SNATCHES LATE WIN FROM LONG-TIME LEADER CREEDON
The Junior A 9-man final at Lyre on Sunday, proviced a score packed with excitement and wasn’t over until the last shot was thrown. After Creedons first four shots, in total control leading by a bowl, how could it go so wrong for him? Edmund Sexton v Conor Creedon v Ger O’Driscoll playing for a total stake of €10,500. O’Driscoll took two leads in this score his first shot and third shot past the forest entrance. Sexton was almost a bowl out of it at this juncture. Creedon was over the tunnel in four phenomenal bowls, top senior bowling. Here he had a bowl on O’Driscoll and throwing his odds over Sexton. Usually it is three handy bowls to Crowley’s bend from here but unfortunately it took Creedon five where both O’Driscoll and Sexton were closing the gap. But an incredible ninth bowl from Creedon, saw him bounce back, not alone did he cross over from a bad stand but went half way to McCarthy’s bend. That shot restored his bowl of odds advantage again and O’Driscoll went ahead of Sexton by ten meters. Both O’Driscoll and Sexton missed sight for McCarthy’s and this was an huge opportunity for Creedon to consolidate his lead and put this score away but unfortunately he also missed sight. Sexton made the middle of the farmyard with the aid of a rub. O’Driscoll got a huge bowl to the end of the railings but unfortunately it was “called” and his 2nd effort only just beat Sexton tip. This was still Creedons score but he got two poor bowls in succession and now there was only odds in it between the three. Two poor bowls from O’Driscoll and he was almost a bowl down, a huge thirteenth from Sexton won him his first lead in this score. Creedon beat the line but it was not enough to deny the Nadd man Sexton victory and take the first prize of €700.
Ballinacurra played off a junior a quarter final score between Peter Murray from Togher and Eoin O’Riordan from Macroom, playing for €4,000. Murray found himself a bowl of odds down very early in this score, from two poor opening shots in fact. Four and five shots each to Brinny cross where O’Riordan had a bowl and 15 meters. A huge sixth shot from O’Riordan extended his lead to almost two bowls. Murray never got going in this score at all. O’Riordan rose the two bowls with an incredible ninth shot from back of Perriots to three quarter way to the GAA entrance. Murray’s best was his twelfth shot past the GAA entrance and sight for Innishannon Cross that O’Riordan missed but instantly restored his two bowls when Murray’s thirteenth veered in left. O’Riordan out the last bend for the straight in two more rose a further bowl
MICHÁEL Ó'CEALLACHÁIN OFF TO A FLIER IN GAELTEACH NOVICE VETERAN
Rúnaí Micháel Ó’Ceallachain got off to winning ways in his Gaeltacht novice veteran score against Niall Murphy at Clondrohid. O’Callaghan had twenty meters at the steel shed and double this odds at the bark mulch, he got a great bowl to the small gate and a bad blunder here from Murphy cost him a bowl of odds. O’Callaghan held this odds through Teir Beg cross and on past O’Leary’s pillars. O’Callaghan extended his lead to a bowl and 50 meters at the black house, a blunder from here could have left Murphy back in this score but his bowl fell in twenty metes fore only. O’Callaghan made the graveyard with his next and Murphy missed this now two bowls down. Two more each to Kelly’s hump still two bowls. Murphy done well to go out Moore’s bend in two but O’Callaghan followed them and opened the last bend to win by two bowls. In a return score in the same championship Tony Healy had a convincing win over Pat Healy.
At Beal Na Marbh in a Tigh Ui Laoighre Cup SF score Matty McDonagh from Clondrohid beat local man Liam McCarthy for a stake of €500 a-side. McCarthy done well to keep with McDonagh for the first three shots, but after two more to the top of the hill McDonagh was extending his lead. McDonagh made the middle of the lawn in four more good bowls where he had a big bowl of odds. He held this odds to the end of the straight and won out in the end by a bowl. He awaits the winner of Martin McSweeny or John MacSullivan.