Boys Under 11

Managers: Rob Bohane (0861277458), John Keating (087-2354698), Tim McCarthy (087-9071998)

Training: Every Wednesday evening in Gortnaglough from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

MATCH REPORTS

Sun, Aug 31st - Ballincollig A 1 - 2 Ballinhassig

The U11’s had their very first outing of the U11 League with a visit to Regional Park to play Ballincollig. Ballinhassig boys definitely started the brighter, and for a while all the play was at the Ballincollig goal, with supporters at one stage wondering what we were going to have to do to get that all exclusive first goal, Cian O’Mahony was unlucky on numerous occasions, but great determination saw him drive forward and put a ball through to Jason Desmond, who was dominating the left wing and he had no hesitation in placing the ball in the back of the net. On the right wing Ben Spillane was proving to be very tricky and put some good ball through to Philip Grant to keep us looking for a 2nd goal. At the other end Ballincollig threatened very little and superb defending from William Greene, Liam Wheelan, Jack Keating and Darren O’Leary made sure goalkeeper Arthur O’Leary had little to do. The hard work in the middle of the park by Eoin McCarthy and Peter Murphy in the 1st half continued and in the 2nd half with help from substitute Kevin McGuire, kept Ballincollig at bay when they came hunting that equaliser, unfortunately 20 mins into the half saw a rather “dubious” penalty awarded to Ballincollig. The game was drawn at 1-1, substitute Eoin Buckley brought life back into the game and was very unlucky not to score on his first run with the ball. Cian O’Mahony had a great chance at goal minutes later but a fine piece of goalkeeping from the Ballincollig keeper denied him. Conor Bohane and Eoin O’Callaghan were brought on to relieve tired legs, Ballinhassig won a corner and even though a good few players had an attempt in the box it was deservedly Cian O’Mahony who sneaked the ball past the Ballincollig keeper. It took hard work and strong defending to keep Ballincollig from equalising , but that they did and were truly deserving of their first three points. Great team effort.