A League Division 2 - Round 5. Skryne 2-15, Castletown 1-15

Skryne 2-15 Castletown 1-15

A League Division 2 – Round 5

An excellent game of football played on a perfect pitch in ideal conditions resulted in victory for Skryne by 3 points in this A League Division 2 encounter. Castletown began the match much brighter than Skryne and had a goal and a point on the board in the first few minutes. Paddy Carpenter got the home team off the mark with a very well taken point and two more from Bryan Davis seemed to settle Skryne but Castletown regrouped and their forwards had the Blues defence in all sorts of trouble all through this first half. They were never headed in this period and fully deserved their half time lead of 1-08 to 0-09 having played into the road end goals with little or no breeze to contend with.

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The second half proved to be the opposite with Skryne on top right from the start and scored two goals and a point before Castletown had their first point eight minutes in. Mark Battersby and Patrick O’Rourke getting the Blues goals after some great work out the field with a number of players involved in both moves. Batts added three pointed frees before Castletown got back into the game and had the Skryne’s lead back to two points with a minute of normal time left. Again the Blues finished strongly and Darragh Campion scored the last point of the game to seal victory for the home team.

This was a good team performance from Skryne with some very good individual displays particularly from Ian Gillett in goals – two brilliant saves kept his side in front in that helter skelter second half. Mark Jordan was back to his best and Mark Harrington got to grips with the dangerous Castletown full forward in the second half. The midfielders broke even while upfront Bryan Davis and Patrick O’Rourke stood out, but overall every player played their part in an important victory which keeps Skryne in the top half of the League table.

Skryne – Ian Gillett. Eoghan Greene, Mark Harrington, Mark Jordan. Paddy Carpenter (0-1), Niall Lenehan, Adam O’Sullivan. Aidan Tuite, Ciaran Lenehan. Eoin Smyth, Bryan Davis (0-5), Patrick O’Rourke (1-2). Jason Fox (0-1), Mark Battersby (1-5), Darragh Campion (0-1).
Subs used – Declan Morley and Paddy Fox.