Kildress were in danger of over-loading their newly-repaired scoreboard tonight as they powered to this 6-19 to 0-3 League win over Killyman at a nippy Gortacladdy. The Tones were very accurate all night, kicking very few wides though good Killyman blocking also denied them possibly another couple of goals. They were also strong all over the field, with Callum Holland and the Loughrans again watertight at full-back, Enda McAleer, Shea Murphy and Stephen Loughran dominant around the middle and Matty McGuigan, Philip Lennon and Caolan McNamee real handfuls in attack, scoring 4-9 from play between them.
Kildress were already 0-6 to 0-1 ahead before Matty McGuigan’s palmed goal, following good work by Enda McAleer, helped them to a 1-9 to 0-3 half-time lead. With the difficult breeze now in their favour the Tones really pulled away in the second half with Philip Lennon’s clever goal after ten minutes putting them a massive 15 points to the good. Game over or not, Kildress didn’t slacken and more goals followed from Caolan McNamee, Corey Holland and Shea Murphy, as well as a couple of booming points from Pauric Lagan. Bigger tests might lie ahead but this was a good win for Kildress in a game well refereed by Mickey McCarron.
Kildress: | Gerard Grimes | Aaron Loughran, Callum Holland, Marty Loughran | Jonny Connolly (0-1), Dean McNally, Conor Quinn (0-1) | Enda McAleer, Shea Murphy (1-1) | Stephen Loughran (0-2), Des Treacy, Eoin Brannigan | Philip Lennon (1-5), Caolan McNamee (2-1), Matty McGuigan (1-6) |, Corey Holland (1-0), Pauric Lagan (0-2), Niall Connolly, Tiernan McNamee, Damian Kelly
Kildress Reserves burned brightly under the lights as the night got colder at Gortacladdy and yet again piled up an eye-catching score, winning out over Killyman by 6-18 to 2-5. Corey Holland, very lively all night, Mickey Treacy and Marty McGurk got the first half goals that put Kildress in charge by 3-10 to 1-2 but Killyman were very spirited for much of the second half until later goals from Mark Treacy, Damian Kelly and Matthew Loughran maintained their side’s phenomenal scoring record this season.
A final word on Killyman: a Club with one of the smallest picks anywhere still resolutely fields two adult teams on a cold Friday night away from home. Food for thought there for a lot of us!
