New Oak on top form
P. J. Brennan of Hanover gets to the ball ahead of Parkville?s J. J. Connolly during the Premier Division game.
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Tuesday February 23 2010
GIVING their best performance of the season so far, New Oak proved too strong for the home side in Parkmore on Saturday.
New Oak were on top, enjoying much more possession of the ball than Baltinglass. After creating a few good chances, the visitors went ahead through Gavin Doyle on 28 minutes. Paddy Kelly for Town did test the New Oak goalkeeper with a free before half time, however the visitors well deserved their half time lead.
Baltinglass had their best spell early in the second half with Kelly going close with another and following that they won a penalty but Paddy Barry's spot kick was well saved by the New Oak goalkeeper. Following that New Oak seemed to get their second wind and proceeded to dominate the remainder of the half. Graham Dempsey put them two goals up and Nicolo Bottura soon had their third. As the Baltinglass heads dropped, Stephen Preston got goal number four and a late free from James Delaney went all the way to the Town net to give New Oak a comprehensive victory.
For New Oak Boys Daryl Hayden, Graham Dempsey and Stephen Preston stood out. Baltinglass Town Boy's best players were James Keane, Lee Furlong and Paddy Kelly. BAGENALSTOWN have become the surprise package, six points of the leaders and a game in hand, following their easy victory in McGrath Park.
All three goals from Bagenalstown came in the first half. As they over ran Killeshin. The first goal came on twelve minutes from Pat Abbey's boot and six minutes later Andrew Townsend got on the score sheet, his shot going in with the help of a deflection off a Killeshin defender. Brendan Hennessey had a chan of reducing the arrears for the visitors, having got inside the Town defence, skewed his shot over on 23 minutes.
This proved a costly miss for the Laois based lads as two minutes later Townsend with his second goal of the game made it 3-0 to Bagenalstown to put them at half time in a match winning position.
With Killeshin unable to lift their game to challenge Bagenalstown, the second half turned out to be a pretty dull affair as the home side strolled to victory.
Impressive for Bagenalstown were Pat Abbey, Adam Dermody and Éamon Nolan. For Killeshin, Alan Brennan, Evan Carr and Shane Lowry gave it their all.
