BUNDORAN GAINED TWO valuable league points in their quest to stay in Division 1 of the AllSportStore.com All-County Football League when they defeated an understrength Glenswilly in Gaelic Park last night.
Bundoran 1-10 Glenswilly 0-11
A Tommy Hourihane goal in injury time gave Bundoran both points in a match which lacked real quality throughout.
The home side opened the scoring when Jamie Brennan jinked his way through the visitors defence for a fine point.A Hourihane free was soon cancelled out by Gary McFadden.
Picture caption: Bundoran’s Shane McGowan gets away from Glenswilly’s James Pat McDaid. Picture by Geraldine Diver
Christy Keaney pointed only for Joe Gibbons to reply with an excellent long-range effort.
[adrotate group=”59″]Points from Darragh Hoey and Johnny Boyle put the home team three up, but James Pat McDaid cut the deficit again.
The Seasiders finished the half strongly to hit three points without reply from Hourihane, Hoey and Brennan to leave the half-time score Bundoran 0-8 Glenswilly 0-3.
The men from the Glen upped their performance considerably in the second half and found themselves only two behind with Darren McGinley, Caoimhinn Marley and Christopher McMonagle all finding the range.
[adrotate group=”37″]Bundoran hit their first score of the half from a Hourihane free.
The momentum had now swung in favour of the visitors as Bundoran’s running game kept breaking down too often in the half forward line.
McFadden hit three in a row to level it up and he scored another after Keaney, briefly, restored Bundoran’s advantage.
[adrotate group=”45″]As the game entered injury time the veteran Hourihane showed a moment of quality when he lobbed Philip O’Donnell in the Glenswilly net.
Despite another McFadden free it was the home who would claim victory.
[adrotate group=”68″]Bundoran: Conor Carty; Diarmuid McCaughey, Peter McGonigle, Pauric Rooney; Barry McGowan, Paul Brenna,n Johnny Boyle (0-1); Ciaran McCaughey, Niall Dunne; Michael McEniff, Darragh Hoey (0-2), Shane McGowan; Jamie Brennan (0-2), Tommy Hourihane (1-3), Christy Keaney (0-2). Subs: Shane Moohan for McEniff (45), Tommy Govorov for J Brennan (50), Paul Delaney for Dunne (57), Niall McGonigle for D McCaughey (60).
Glenswilly: Philip O’Donnell; Mark McAteer, Eamonn Ward, Aidan McDevitt; Cathal Gallagher, James Pat McDaid (0-1), Paddy McFadden; Ciaran Gibbons (0-1), Gary McFadden (0-5); Joe Gibbons (0-1), Darren McGinley (0-1), Ryan Diver; Caoimhinn Marley (0-1), Cormac Callaghan, Christopher Mc Monagle (0-1). Sub: Ethan Sweeney for Diver (60).
Referee: Shane Toolan (Aodh Ruadh).
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