*Chibby Okoye keeps the ball from Jamesy McConigley
Newmarket Celtic maintain top spot in the Maloney Garden Premier Division while Ennis Town continued their run of impressive form with Avenue Utd coming out on top against Shannon Town.
Hehir’s strike proves decisive
Avenue United 3
Shannon Town Utd 2
Venue: Roslevan
Two of the fancied teams for honours this season clashed at Roslevan on Sunday in the Premier league and the home side emerged with the points after a lively contest.
Avenue led at the break through a Ronan Kerin goal which was scored three minutes before the half time whistle.
Kerin struck again ten minutes after the break, doubling his side’s lead but Shannon Town came back strongly and for the third week in a row, Gary O’Connell scored. He added two to his collection this week and these scores levelled the contest at 2-2.
Ten minutes from time an Avenue free rebounded off the upright and Conor Hehir was quickest to react and he fired home what proved to be the winner for the Ennis based club.
Avenue United: Paul Roche; Cullen McCabe, Conor Mullen, Dylan Casey, Conor Hehir; Mark Roche, Eogxhan Thynne, Alan Roche, Cian O’Dea; Ronan Kerin, Eliaz Kunz
Subs: Thomas Hehir for Kunz; Stephen Jordan for M. Roche; Dylan Barry for A. Roche; Shane Brown for Thynne; Jamie Roche for Mullen.
Shannon Town A: Shane Russell; Steven Carroll, Colum Treacy, Darren Griffin, Brian Monaghan; Jack Kelly, Brian O’Connor, T.J. O’Dwyer, Rob Wall, Kieran Hackett, Gary O’Connell
Subs: Charlie Morrisson for B. O’Connor, Rory Hayes for R. Wall; Cody Waller for Carroll.
Strong finish from Ennis Town
Ennis Town 4
Sporting Ennistymon 2
Venue: Lees Rd, Ennis
Ennis Town continued their impressive early season form when they defeated Sporting Ennistymon in the Premier League on Sunday.
A storming finish from the Ennis side saw them score four times in the last twenty minutes at Lees Road to claim the points.
The winners were down to ten men following the sending off of Peter O’Brien but they dominated the closing period and goals from substitute Robbie Gormley, Sean Perrill and two from Davy Keenan helped them to maintain their winning run.
Sporting Ennistymon’s goals came from Mikolay Augustyn in the first half while Jack O’Dea hit the target in the second period.
Ennis Town; Aidan Jordan; Thomas Collins, Sean Perrill, Stephen Horgan, Chibby Okoye, Eoin Keenan, Declan Ensko, Peter O’Brien, David Keenan, Lee Clohessy, Dean Hegarty
Subs: Robbie Gormley for Ensko; Lase Isebajo for S. Horgan.
Sporting Ennistymon; Darragh Flynn, Joe Gallagher, Ciaran Monaghan, Michael Leigh, Jack O’Dea, Thierry Buton, Chris O’Keeffe, Matthew Crowe, Mikolay Augustyn, Jamsey McConigley, Darren McNamara;
Subs: Eanna Collins for Matthew Crowe.
Spoils shared at Cassidy Park
Lifford 1
Mountshannon Celtic 1
Venue: Cassidy Park, Ennis
A share of the spoils resulted when Lifford entertained Mountshannon Celtic at Cassidy Park on Sunday afternoon.
The visitors took the lead midway through the opening half through Martin Cunningham after he received a pass from William Glass. Cunningham’s effort should have been dealt with by Lifford goalie Rhys Phillips.
Midway through the second half, Lifford equalised through Dean Coughlan who should have put his side into the lead moments later but he failed to avail of an excellent opportunity.
An understrength Mountshannon team will be happy with a share of the spoils but Lifford will rue a number of missed opportunities.
Lifford: Rhys Phillips; Josh Ryan, Zube Okoye, Darragh Kerin, John Maher; Michael Junaid, Gary McNaboe, Matthew Kearney, Dylan Ryan, Nathan Boaventura, Dean Coughlan;
Subs: Lunga Balman for D. Ryan; Jean Ganda for M. Kearney
Mountshannon Celtic: Andrew O’Dwyer; Michael O’Brien, Oran Scanlan, Niall Deer, William Kavanagh; Martin Cunningham, Michael Barrett, Ben Harrington, Ronan Dooley, William Glass, Conor Whelan
Subs: Harry Gaffney for B. Harringtom; Ethan Madden for W. Kavanagh; Luke Sugrue for R. Dooley; Stephen Hayes for L. Sugrue (inj)
Easy for Newmarket Celtic
Shannon Hibs 0
Newmarket Celtic A 5
Venue: Riverside Park, Shannon
Newmarket Celtic maintained their strong challenge for another Premier Division title when they accounted for Shannon Hibs on Sunday.
The winners led 4-0 at half time and at this time they were well on their way to collecting the points.
They continued to hold the upperhand in the second half and emerged as comfortable winners on a day when David McCsrthy (2), ex Hibs player Jamie Egan and Paddy Purcell (2) were the goalscorers.
Newmarket Celtic A: Shane Cusack; Conor McDaid, Paddy Purcell Eoin O’Brien, David O’Grady; Alan Kelly, Jamie Egan, Pat Mc Daid, David McCsrthy, Garry Higgins, Cathal Hayes;
Subs: Eoin Kelly for Higgins; Ian Collins for McCarthy
Shannon Hibs: Piotr Kaluzza; Bob O’Connell, Alex Cole, Pa Devanney, Ciaran McKee, Declan Delaney, Lee Wall, Adam Ryan, Zygge Wall, Darragh Mc Dade, Billy Connors.
Subs: Shane Keating for D. Delaney; Scott Whelan for Ryan
