Premier League wins for Fairview, Aisling, Mungret and Nenagh

Aisling Annacotty 1

Geraldines 0

The top of the table clash between Aisling Annacotty and Geraldines brought the crowds to Annacotty on Saturday when a Conor Coughlan goal in the first half saw Aisling take the spoils and leapfrog Geraldines to the top of the table.

After an evenly contested opening half, Aisling took a lead into the dressing room, but after the restart the home side had to defend for their lives over the next 45 minutes as Geraldines chased the game.

Experienced goalkeeper Stephen McNamara played a big part in the win. He had a collection of good saves throughout but he also kept his young defence calm as the pressure built.

Ten minutes before the break, Aisling took the lead. Jack Aherne did well to break up a Geraldines attack and fed the ball to left-back Adam Costello, who played a clever ball in behind the Geraldines defence for Conor Coughlan to race through, leave the defenders in his wake and fire to the back of the net for a superb goal.

Geraldines emerged determined after the restart and were awarded a free kick outside the area. James Fitzgerald hit an excellent effort heading for the top corner before McNamara got a fingertip to it to put the ball over the bar.

Shane Dillon came sliding into the box to get on the end of Leon Johnson’s delivery, but once again Stephen McNamara blocked the effort.

Geraldines continued to push in the closing stages, peppering the Aisling goalmouth, but could not get the required touch to avoid defeat.

Aisling Annacotty: Stephen McNamara, Jamie Halpin, Adam Costello, Seán O’Haodha, David Moloney, Jack Aherne, Ben Kiely, Joel Coustrain, Niko Kozlowski, Adam Foley, Conor Coughlan, Subs: Francesco Martini, Sean Ezekannagha, Donnacha O’Leary.

Geraldines: Jose Zaguiceu, Dave Power, Scott Kinwin, Robbie Williams, Aaron Grant, Cian Fitzgerald, Gareth Ronan, Leon Johnson, Famara Kassama, James Fitzgerald, Muhsin Jelle. Subs: Ousman Darboe, Shane Dillon, Eoin Hanrahan, Munir Abdullahi.

Kilmallock 0

Fairview Rgs 6

Fairview Rgs eased into joint second spot with a comfortable win away to Kilmallock. Yoyo Mahdy put the reigning champions ahead from the spot and then set up Shane Duggan for a second before half time.

Duggan went on to complete his hat-trick after the break with Adam Dore and an own goal making up the winner’s tally.

Kilmallock: Lorcan Casey; Jack Barry; Connor Finn; Dwayne Bagnell; Aaron O’Hanlon; Jason Heffernan; Kyle Tierney; Sean Kiely; Paul Doona; Mark Hayes; Bjorn Downes, Subs: Aidan Walker; F Freyne

Fairview Rgs: Josh McCarthy GK; Jake Dillon; Blake Curran; Jason Cross; Thomas O’Connor; Ryan Bowden; Shane Duggan; Josh McCarthy; Yoyo Mahdy; Adam Dore; Oleg Vysochan, Subs: Chad Molloy; Danny O’Neill; Ethan O’Sullivan.

Mungret Reg 3

Janesboro 1

Mungret Reg made it two wins from two starts when they outsmarted Janesboro in Mungret. Cian McNicholas gave the home side the lead directly from a corner kick and despite being reduced to ten men, Mungret doubled the lead from a spot kick shortly after, again courtesy of McNicholas.

Kian Barry made it 3-0 before the break and the home side held out comfortably in the second half until the final play when Mark Lynch stuck a fine goal to complete the scoring.

Mungret Reg: Daniel Doyle; Evan Patterson; Conor Myers; Aaron Long; Jake Prendergast; Darragh Killian; Danny McCarthy; Conor Madden; Kieran Long; Kian Barry; Cian McNicholas, Subs: Abdallah Hamareh; Mike Curran; Craig Prendergast

Janesboro: Guilherme Teixeira; Steven Bradley; Shane O’Brien; Dylan Moriarty; Colin Doody; Adam Finn; Graham Bourke; Aodh O’Hanluain; Josh Toomey; Rubin McCarthy; Dion Lynch, Subs: Kai Joyce; Diarmuid Grimes; Eric Carr; Eoghan Burke; Mark Lynch.

Nenagh AFC 2

Pike Rovers 0

Nenagh turned in their best performance of the season to record a rare win over Pike Rvs at the Tipperary venue on Sunday morning.

Scoreless at the break the home side broke the deadlock with 20 minutes remaining when Tarla Doris finished off a good team goal.

Pike pushed for the equaliser but they were undone when Dylan Morrison scored a long- range effort to seal the win.

Nenagh AFC: Mark McKenna; Adam Brennan; Mark Manley; Kieran Barr; Conor McCormack; Conor Hannify; Daniel Connolly; Saeed Ryan; Matt O’Gorman; Dylan Morrison; Nathan Kelly, Subs: Tarla Doris; Colm Hayden; Kieran O’Brien.

Pike Rovers: Sam Casey; Ethan Joyce; Paddy O’Malley; Kyle Duhig; Sean Madigan; Shane Walsh; Aaron Cusack; Aaron Hough; Cathal McNamara; Steven McGann; Alex Keating, Subs: Lee McGuire; Aaron Murphy.

MUNSTER JUNIOR CUP

Athlunkard Villa 0

Ballynanty Rovers 2

The Munster Junior Cup kicked off at the weekend with the all-Premier clash of Athlunkard and Ballynanty Rvs in Lee Estate attracting most attention.

Balla took the lead midway through the opening half when Byrnes’ cross-field ball was cushioned by Kane Connolly for Shane Franklin to fire in from the edge of the box.

Calum Kiely doubled the lead before the break following a fine run and finish. The contest was killed off when Franklin was upended in the area and Connolly converted the spot kick.

Balla tacked on a fourth when Connolly provided again for Oscar O’Donoghue to volley in.

Athlunkard Villa: Robert Power; Darragh Peters; James Frahill; Dave Frawley; Ben Dillon; Danny Taylor; Hamza Selman Celik; Cormac Noonan; TJ McDonnell; Jack Flanagan; Cillian Scully, Subs: Justice Mbayimbayi; John Keogh; Keith Kane; Peter Taylor; Colin Nolan.

Ballynanty Rovers: Tommy Holland; Liam Byrnes; Calum Kiely; Alex Akujobi; Alex Kiely; Jamie Mitchell; Leon Kirrane; Eddie Byrnes; Vinny Ryan; Shane Franklin; Kane Connolly, Subs: Thomas Byrnes; Adam O’Regan; Jamie Greaves; Oscar O’Donoghue; Josh Adams.

Regional Utd B 2

Carew Park 3

Carew Park advanced in the Munster Junior after a thrilling 3-2 win over Regional United. Jonathan Moran gave Carew an early lead but N McCarthy equalised for the homesters.

Edward Ward restored Carew’s lead but just before the break Byron Fitzgerald tied up the game before Donal O’Connell scored the winner just after the hour mark to give Carew the win.

ROUNDUP

The Munster Shield also kicked off with most games going to script. A number of sides with realistic hopes of capturing the trophy eased to victories in their respective ties.

Former winners Balla B hit Southend for seven. Jack O’Callaghan claimed four and Kieran Hanlon hit a double while Dara McNamara also netted for the winners.

Tom Curran and Daniel Malone scored for Southend. Keith Kane and Jimmy Ryan scored for Athlunkard Villa B but they fell 6-2 to Pike Rvs B.

Ben Kennedy scored three for the winners, Jeffery Dore, Colin Strachan and Evan Lynch were also on the mark.

Adam Keating, Fionn Reid, Darren Roche and Josh McCoy scored for Fairview Rgs B in a 4-0 win over Corbally C while Aisling D went one better at Pallas Utd. Gerry Fitzpatrick 2, B McNamara, Eoin Williams and Dara Coughlan scored for the former runners-up.

Holycross ran riot at Dromore Celtic with James McCarthy, Paddy Moloney, Conor Hayes, Tony Burke, Niall O’;Riordan and C Reardon sharing the goals.

Juan Consea and Pietro Grigoletto were on the mark for Hyde Rgs B but they fell 4-2 to Aisling B whose scorers were Kelvyn Amadasun 2, Alessio Iaquaniello and Gift Amadsun.

Goals from Ronan Collins 2 and Thomas Savage saw Kilmallock past Cappamore on a 3-1 scoreline. Aaron Smith replied for the home side.

Lisnagry A eased past Geraldines B with scores from Lee Park 4, Jamie Stuart 2 and Eric Sheehan while Croom Utd beat Knockainey with two apiece for Josh Shinnors and Mark Siemkovych.

Caherdavin Celtic B went down 3-0 at home to Summerville Rvs B. R Delgado, Jon Chinuga and Lloyd Woulfe netted for the visitors while Pike Rvs C edged out Shelbourne B 2-1 aet. Inan Cullen scored for Shels. Evan Duhig and A Bourke scored for Pike.

A delayed start to youth football ended on Sunday when the Under 17 Leagues kicked off. In the Premier League goals from L Fitzgerald and J Sheahan GAVE Aisling an opening day win over Fairview Rgs.

Pike Rovers and Caherdavin Celtic drew 2-2. Rian Hanrahan Stewart scored twice for the Hoops, A Ward and A Galligan replied for Celtic.

In Division 1, Will Drury, T Begley, D Barry and M Hogan score for Pike in a 4-0 win at

Corbally while Lough Derg hit Balla for seven courtesy of C Haas 2, A Flynn 2, O Shanahan, M Jugowiec and H Thompson.

Yevhen Teliatnikov and C Donnelly scored for Holycross who edged out Aisling by the odd goal in three. N Foley netted for Aisling.

D Kelly and C Howard were on the mark for Bridge Celtic bout they fell 4-2 to Herbertstown with the winning scores coming from R Keogh 2, J Foley and P Byrnes.

In Division 2 a late goal from O Scmidt gave Aisling the points at Parkville in a feisty game. Lough Derg B team emulated their A team recording a 7-0 win.

E Pauliunas 4, D Houlihan, L Green and J Nelson accounted for the winning scores v Corbally Utd. P Morrissey was on the mark for Cappamore but they conceded five to Mungret B courtesy of Christian Kally 3 and S Cusack 2.

Caherconlish and Nenagh played out an exciting 5-5 draw in Caherconlish. A Ryan 2, A O’Brien 2 and L Browne scored for the home side; H O’Gorman 2 , M Mohamed 2 and Jamie Ryan replied for Nenagh.