‘A’ League Division 3B Round 6
Seneschalstown 3-11 Navan O’Mahony’s 3-08
Seneschalstown joined the logjam of teams on 10 points at the top of the Division 3B table on Thursday night, defeating fellow table-toppers Navan O’Mahony’s in Fr. Tully Park on a glorious sunny evening. Seneschalstown largely had Johnny Gilsenan to thank for leading them to victory, a 0-09 haul for the full-forward spearheading the Seneschalstown charge.
Navan O’Mahony’s opened the scoring inside 90 seconds with a free but Seneschalstown levelled a minute later when Gilsenan landed a stunning point from wide on the right. Éamon Finnegan moved Seneschalstown in front a minute later with a free and had a point from play for himself in the seventh minute to boot. Gilsenan also kicked a free for himself before Owen Mullen struck a major blow for Seneschalstown, finishing off a wonderful team move with a calm precise shot low to the bottom right corner of the net leaving Seneschalstow 1-04 to 0-02 ahead on eight minutes. Gilsenan was successful with another free moving the lead out to six points but O’Mahony’s halved that in a two minute spell with three points on the trot.
Gilsenan was enjoying a fruitful half, and he kicked another two points from play either side of a Podge Finnegan goal. Finegan getting on the end of a move to excellently finish the ball into the bottom corner. Seneschalstown were now eight points up after 21 minutes but wouldn’t score again in the half as the visitors almost totally wiped put the lead in five minutes at the end of the half with 2-01, bringing them right back into the game as Eamon Barry blew for half-time with the scoreboard reading 2-07 to 2-06 in favour of the hosts.
The Gilsenan show continued upon the resumption with yet another point before Declan Byrne began to turn to this bench introducing David Fox. Fox, with his first touch of the ball found himself bearing down on the O’Mahony’s goal and producing a powerful finish into the net. Gilsenan, who kicked 0-06 from play on the night put his name to two more scores after the goal as Seneschalstown began pull away once again.
O’Mahony’s first score of the second half came from a free in the 47th minute as they never let the gap become too comfortable for the home side. Despite the scores slowing in the last quarter, Seneschalstown had enough in the tank and another Gilsenan free ensured the lead was big enough withstand a late O’Mahonys fightback which included a late goal, but Seneschalstown were able to hold on for a crucial three point win.
Seneschalstown are on the road to Cortown on May 23rd for another top of the table clash, while the other two teams on 10 points, Slane and O’Mahony’s also face off in what will be an important night in the division.
Seneschalstown: Luke Healy, Cormac Mullen, Mark Fox, Cormac Carolan, Joe Norris, Ronan Conneely, Conor McDonnell, Podge Finegan (1-00), Darren O’Brien, Tom McDonnell, Jamie Kirwan, Owen Mullen (1-00), Eamon Finnegan (0-02, 1f), Johnny Gilsenan (0-09, 3fs), Eddie Meade.
Subs: Danny Waters, Séimí Byrne, David Fox (1-00), Liam Maguire, Shane Mulvany
