Defeat for Skryne in Stamullen
St. Patrick’s 2-10 Skryne 0-12
A League Division 1, Round 12
Skryne travelled to Stamullen for this A League Div 1 match against St. Patrick’s last evening (Wednesday) but came away pointless as the hosts ran out winners by 4 points – 2-10 to 0-12. On one of the best pitches we played on this year Skryne began the game very well and Paddy Fox and Mark Battersby scored the first two points early on. St. Pats recovered sufficiently to lead 4 points to 2 ten minutes in. The breeze although blowing mostly across the field, slightly favoured St. Pats in this half and even though Skryne levelled on 4 points each after fifteen minutes they didn’t score again until ten minutes into the second half. The Stamullen men lead at half time by 6 points to 4 and went on to score 1-2 early in the second half and Skryne seemed in trouble. But the management team made some changes in personnel and the system to stem the tide. They dispensed with the sweeper and went more direct which had the desired effect and with nine minutes to go were back within a point of the leaders.
Unfortunately once again the concession of goals lost the game for the Blues and the last score of the game was one for the Pats. The Skryne defence found it difficult to cope with the speed of the Landy brothers who contributed 2-05 between them of the winners final score of 2-10.
Skryne also had their own twin attackers in Mark Battersby and Patrick O’Rourke who scored 11 of Skrynes total of 12 points between them. Declan Morley had a fine game as sweeper for the Losers until the system was changed and he was well supported by Ciaran Lenehan and Aidan Tuite. Unfortunately the old injury jinx cropped up again for Skryne as Niall Lenehan retired early in the game with a hamstring problem.
Skryne – Ian Gillette. Niall Lenehan, Ciaran Lenehan, Mark Joradn. Stephen O’Brien, Vinny O’Reilly, Ronan McCabe. Aidan Tuite, Paddy Fox (0-1). John Morley, Neal Burke, Thomas Mckeown. Declan Morley, Patrick O’Rourke (0-5), Mark Battersby (0-6).
Subs used – Mark Harrington, Allan Carty and Cian Lynch.
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