Ballyhea, Charleville, Cork
Ballyhea, Charleville , Cork, Ireland.
November 11 2007
Ballyhea intermediates wrapped up their season capturing the liam breatnachcup today after a cracking encounter with courcey rovers.ballyhea settledwell and led 0-4 to 0-2 after 10 mins thanks to 2 neil ronan frees andpoints from darran ronan and mce o sullivan.then on the 15th minute darranronan picked out mce o sullivan with a brilliant pass and mce duly slottedthe sliotar to the net to put us 1-5 to 0-3 clear.ballyhea were hurlingwith great confidence now and with neil ronan and mce o sullivan firingover some fine points we were full value for our 1-11 to 0-8 half timelead.corceys with the aid of the breeze in the second half were thrown alife line with a well taken goal in the 33rd minute.ballyhea rallied againthough with further points from neil and mce and a quality score from youngchristopher hanley to have us 4 pints clear with 14 mins to go 1-15 to1-11.at this stage both sides were serving up an excellent contest, iancurtin pointed to put us 5 clear, courceys though mainly through vinciehurley frees brought the deficit back to one 1-16 to 1-15 with 5 minsremaining. mce o sullivan clipped over his 6 point to put ballyhea 2 aheadagain in the 57th min, courceys had a point in the 1st min of injury timeto set up a nail biting finish, but ballyhea stood firm to win the liambreathnach cup for the 1st time since 1994.after the game county boarddevelopment officer declan walsh presented the liam breathnach cup toballyheas captain stephen dennehy.scorers:mce o sullivan 1-6, neil ronan 0-6 , ian curtin 0-2, ian ronan 0-1, darranronan 0-1, christopher hanley 0-1.team: olly morrissey, john o riordan, eamon morrissey, hugh o leary,stephen dennehy, barry coleman, michael morrissey, aidan crowley,christopher hanley, mce o sullivan, gavin morrissey, neil ronan, timshanahan, ian ronan, darran ronansubs: ian curtin(used), owen o sullivan (used), edward rea (used), dave oriordan, paddy o connor, dermot hawe, stephen coleman.