Cannistown’s Charlie Roe surveys his options despite pressure from St Paul’s Beth Murphy. Photo: Gerry Shanahan-www.cyberimages.net
DIV 2 HURLING – Cannistown NS 2-7 St Paul’s NS, Navan 0-8
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Cannistown’s Charlie Roe surveys his options despite pressure from St Paul’s Beth Murphy. Photo: Gerry Shanahan-www.cyberimages.net Gerry Shanahan
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Cannistown NS capatins Eoin O’Brien (left) and Micheál Smyth received the Zak Moran Cup from Catriona Moran following the Div 2 Hurling final win. Gerry Shanahan
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Cannistown’s Séamus McKeigue received the Spirit of the Final award from Meath Chronicle’s Jimmy Geoghegan and Catriona Moran. Gerry Shanahan
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The Cannistown NS players (from left) were: back – Ciarán Reilly, Tom Travers, William Tully, Séamus Tobin, Eoin O’Brien, Micheál Smyth, Cal Hennessy, Arthur Mallon, Brían Meade; front – Michael Mallon, Charlie Roe, Dylan Kavanagh, Liam Sheridan, Tom Hayes, Séamus McKeigue, Christopher Burke, Tom Dorrigan, Bobby Saul, Hugo Snow, Liam O’Brien, Cormac Corcoran. Photo: David Mullen/www.cyberimages.net David Mullen
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The St Paul’s NS Navan players (from left) were: back – Sadhbh McDaid, Karlitas Volkovas, Jack Quinn Rogers, Maxwell Flanagan, Mario Bici, Ronan Cromwell, John Graham, Niall Sweeney, Tom Kerrigan, Ríain Byrne, Cian Sweeney, Dáire Carolan, Andy McCann, Daniel Efros, Matt Travers, Sean Flanagan, Meadhbh McDermott, Enda McGrane; front – Elliot McHugh, Eoin McGoona, Osgur Mohan, Ollie Killeen, Beth Murphy, Ryan Chambers, Eoin Shannon, Cian Brady Fitzgerald, Odhran Fitzsimons, Tyler Byrne, Leo Murray, Dara Tolster, Danny Moran, Sean Broderick Mooney, Joe Quinlan, Sean McGoona, Conor Weafer, Harry Weafer, Donnchadh Mohan, Tom Oakes. Photo: David Mullen/www.cyberimages.net David Mullen
Carrying a scoring threat from many parts of the team, Cannistown powered to victory over St Paul’s in this Div 2 Hurling final and claimed the Zak Moran Cup on the sun-splashed Trim pitch on Friday.
That threat was underlined in the way five of their players got on the scoresheet – Tom Dorrigan, Seamus McKeigue, Seamus Tobin, William Tully and Tom Travers. In contrast St Paul’s relied on just one player – Niall Sweeney – to get their scores and all of those were from frees.
On the way to the final Cannistown chalked up some notable achievements including the fact that they defeated both Athboy and Baconstown – on the same day! That kind of fluency and high fitness levels were in evidence in this encounter as they went about creating a taking a steady stream of chances.
Wearing black and amber Cannistown were well on the way to victory at the interval when they led 2-4 to 0-3. It was always going take something special to stop the Cannistown momentum after that.
Dorrigan and Tobin both conjured up superb finishes to find the net in that opening half with Cannistown displaying a sharpness in front of the posts that only comes with practice and dedication.
Defensively too the black and ambers were strong and alert with goalkeeper Christopher Burke at one stage executing a superb save to deny Sweeney a goal.
The Saints toiled and battled with players such as Meadhbh McDermott, Sadhbh McDaid and Riain Byrne relentlessly working throughout but they just found it hard to find a way past the Cannistown battlements. St Paul’s were certainly not short of heroes
This was a real team effort from Cannistown, that fact most forcefully demonstrated with that impressive spread of scorers while St Paul’s too can be proud of what they achieved this year. Even reaching a final is not easy.
Cannistown NS – Christopher Burke; Arthur Mallon, Micheal Smyth; Charlie Roe, Eoin O’Brien, Liam Sheridan; Seamus Tobin (1-0), Tom Travers (0-1 free); Tom Hayes, William Tully (0-1 free), Hugo Snow; Tom Dorrigan (1-2 one free), Seamus McKeigue (0-3 one free). Subs – Bobby Saul, Michael Mallon, Ciaran Reilly, Liam O’Brien, Dylan Kavanagh, Cal Hennessy, Brian Meade, Cormac Corcoran. Mentors – Dean Curran, Kate Boles.
St Paul’s NS, Navan – John Graham; Max Purvis, Tom Kerrigan; Jack Quinn Rogers, Meadhbh McDermott, Mario Bici; Ryan Chambers, Ronan Cromwell; Leo Murray, Sadhbh McDaid, Niall McSweeney (0-8 frees); Dara Tolster, Riain Byrne. Subs – Andy McCann, Odhran Fitzsimons, Joe Quinlan, Osgur Mohan, Beth Murphy, Ollie Killeen, Daire Carolan, Maxwell Flanagan, Sean Flanagan, Cian Sweeney, Danny Moran, Eoin Shannon, Enda McGrane, Karlitas Volkovas, Tyler Byrne, Donnchadh Mohan, Eoin McGoona, Sean McGoona, Harry Weafer, Conor Weafer, Elliot McHugh, Tom Oakes, Cian Brady Fitzgerald, Sean Broderick Mooney. Mentors – Chris Lynagh, Sean Enright.
Referee – John Byrne (Ballivor NS).
