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REPORT/PHOTOS: St Brendans Run Riot In Big Win Over Ballyheigue

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Ballyheigue were trounced by a rampant St Brendans side yesterday in Abbeydorney. Mike O’Halloran reports on the Kerry SHC first round clash…

St Brendan’s 5-20

Ballyheigue 0-7

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Chris O’Mahony clears his lines for Ballyheigue during Sunday’s game against St Brendan’s. Photo by Mike O’Halloran

St Brendan’s were four points up after 50 seconds when Nicky O’Sullivan goaled from an error by the Ballyheigue keeper.

Ten minutes later they were ten points behind with Nicky scoring his second goal and St Brendans were well on their way.

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Nicky was to bag one more goal before the end of the game. The halftime score was St Brendan’s 3-9 to 0-4 for Ballyheigue, St Brendan’s third goal coming from Kevin Skinner on 21 minutes.

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Action from the Ballyheigue v St Brendans game on Sunday. Photo by Mike O’Halloran

John Egan, who was excellent throughout pointed within 20 seconds of the restart and so the second half went the same way as the first with St Brendan’s totally in command in all sectors of the field and ran out very convincing winners over a Ballyheigue outfit that never did themselves justice.

Final Score St Brendan’s 5-20 Ballyheigue 0-7

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Action from the Ballyheigue v St Brendans game on Sunday. Photo by Mike O’Halloran

Ballyheigue will now face Ballyduff in the losers round and will hope to get their challenge back on track. St Brendan’s will play Causeway in the next round.

Ballyheigue

Kevin O’Mahony; Danny Casey, Jason Casey, Mark Dineen (1pt) Padraigh Behan, Mike O’Halloran, Chris O’Mahony; Diarmuid Walsh, (1pt) Paudie Carroll, Jason Griffin, Tomas Casey (1pt) Ronan Kenny (1pt) Philip Lucid (3pts) Damian Casey, Shane Dunne.

St Brendan’s

Darren Delaney, Fionan Horgan, Rory Horgan, Conor Flaherty; Eamonn Corridon, Darren Dineen (1 pt). Kevin Orpen; Stephen Leen (1 pt), David Griffin ( 1pt); Tim Hannafin (1g 1 pt), Darren Wallace (Eric Leen) Kevin Skinner (1gl 4 pts) Cian Hussey  (2 pts) ( Padraigh Kearney) Nicky O’Sullivan (3 goals) John Egan (10 pts)