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Mike O’Halloran reports on the opening round of the Garveys Supervalu Kerry hurling championship game played on Friday evening at Austin Stack Park…
Ballyduff GAA 4-20
Ballyheigue GAA 0-11
The Ballyduff panel. Photo by Mike O’Halloran
A big win for Ballyduff in the opening round of the Garveys Supervalu Kerry hurling championship.
Ballyduff led by their young guns came out on top over a much depleted Ballyheigue outfit. Ballyheigue had to line out without their two county men Colin Walsh and Michael Leane.
Ballyheigue had the opening score from the stick of Philip Lucid after two and a half minutes. Ballyheigue were not to lead again after Dylan Moriarty pointed for Ballyduff 30 seconds later.
A minute after that, Padraig Boyle was found with space close to goal and he blasted to the net. Kyle O’Connor finished off and end to end move with a fine point.
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With eleven minutes on the clock, Graham Slattery pointed for Ballyheigue while Jack O’Sullivan and Phelim O’Sullivan swapped scores so it was Ballyduff 1-03 Ballyheigue 0-03 after 13 minutes.
The Ballyheigue panel. Photo by Mike O’Halloran
Kyle O’Connor had two points in a row and Eoin Ross made it 1-6 to 0-03. Ballyduff lost Padraig Boyle to injury and he was replaced by Jack Enright.
Ballyheigue only managed two more points before halftime from Philip Lucid and Felim O’Sullivan. Ballyduff added 1-04 in the final ten minutes of the half — Kevin Goulding netting for Ballyduff.
Goulding also added a point along with Michael Boyle, Dylan Moriarty and a point from downtown by Eoin Ross to leave the halftime score Ballyduff 2-10 Ballyheigue 0-05.
Early in the second half, Michael Boyle grabbed the ball in the air and he was fouled. Dylan Moriarty pointed the free and another a couple of minutes later.
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Eoin Ross and Kevin Goulding had a point each before Nathan Guerin pointed for Ballyheigue. Daniel O’Carroll had a point for Ballyduff, who had eight different scorers by the 37th minute (they would have nine different scorers by games end).
Dylan Moriarty and Philip Lucid exchanged points, Philip had two more points — one from a 65. Michael Boyle brought the Ballyduff score to 2-17 to Ballyheigue’s 0-9 points.
On 53 minutes, Michael Boyle caused havoc in the Ballyheigue goal mouth and the ball crept over the goal line.
Ballyheigue added two more points before the end, but Ballyduff put one goal and two points on the board — Kevin Goulding weaved his way through the Ballyheigue defence to tip the ball to the net one handed.
Cillian Boyle son of Michael Boyle had the final score of the game a point from a free.
This victory was forged by the young lads from Ballyduff augmented by the more experienced players, Ballyduff looked like a team that is coming together.
I was very impressed by the decision making of the young players especially Dylan Moriarty who was pretty close to player of the match. Final score again Ballyduff 4-20, gallant Ballyheigue 0-11.
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