Walterstown Vs Oldcastle –B League Div 2 —May 3rd 2017
Walterstown travelled to sunny Oldcastle on Wednesday evening for this match. The Blacks were in fine form and were 0-8 to 0-1 ahead after 10 minutes. Francis Cosgrove opened the scoring for Walterstown with the first of his 0-6 points of the evening. Oldcastle fought gamely but their opposition were quickest to the ball and set up attack after attack. At half time the score was 2-13 to 0-4.
In the second half Walterstown continued to dominate. Darragh Keegan made some fine saves for Walterstown and his kickouts seemed to always find a Black jersey. Midfielder, Alan Wall worked hard all over the field and contributed 0-2 for the winners. His fellow midfelder Joey Coogan had a personal tally of 0-5. Walterstown’s full back line of Dan Halligan, Conor McGuinness and the evergreen, Donal Traynor gave Oldcastle few opportunities. The half back line of Aaron Mc Loughlin, Brian McGrane and Mark O Meara started a lot of moves which ended in scores, with the latter contributing 1-2. In the half forward line Paul Donnellan distributed the ball skilfully while Brain O Connell notched up 1-3. The full forward line of Conor Cassidy , Kevin Devine and Jerome McLoughlin all scored also.
At the whistle the score was 3-23 to 0-7 in favour of Walterstown.
Walterstown:: Darragh Keegan, Dan Halligan, Conor McGuinness, Donal Traynor, Aaron McLoughlin(1-0) , Brian McGrane, Mark O Meara (1-02), Joe Coogan(0-5) , Alan Wall,(0-2) Paul Donnellan (0-1), Brian O Connell (1-3, 1F), Francis Cosgrove (0-6), Conor Cassidy (0-1), Kevin Devine (0-2), Jerome McL:oughlin (0-1) .
SUBS Aaron Dunphy for Kevin Devine and Ciaran Lydon for Brian McGrane
