The Shelmalier Junior A footballers were never in trouble against Gusserane.
Date: Sunday April 15th Venue: Gusserane Opponents: Gusserane
Competition: Division 1A football League
Full time score: (Shels) 2-13 (Opp.) 1-7
The shelmaliers dominated the game controlling the half back, mid-field and half forward lines. With some great first half performances from Conor O’Shaughnessy, Denis Kelly, Chris Gordon and Gary Bridges the shels were easily leading at half time by 1-6 to 0-4. The half time score was Shelmaliers 1-6 Gusserane 0-4 with Gary Bridges 0-2, Mark Tobin 0-2, Keith Devereux 1-1, Chris Gordon 0-1 on the mark for the visitors.
The trend continued in this half with Shels again controlling the vital areas. P. Quill was very dominant at corner back as was David Kenny at wing forward. Gary Bridges was in great scoring form with 0-5 to his credit over the hour. In the end, Shels ran out easy winners by 2-13 to 1-7. G. Bridges 0-3, M. Tobin 0-1 (free), Michael Kingston 1-0 got the scores for the Shels in the second half.
There were good performances from: Conor O’Shaughnessy, Denis Kelly, Chris Gordon and Gary Bridges
Shelmaliers Vs. Gusserane
Competition: Division 1A football League
Team Line out.
1Ciaran Murphy
2 Cian O’Leary 3 Colin Redmond 4 Paudie Quill
5 Conor O’Shaughnessy 6 Denis Kelly 7 Niall Cullen
8 Chris Gordon 9 Brendan Larkin
10 Gary Bridges 11 Keith Devereux 12 David Kenny
13Michael Kingston 14 Mark Tobin 15 Cathal O’Shaughnessy
Replacements:Damien Breen for Cathal O’Shaughnessy (45 mins), graham Power for B. Larkin (45 mins) and John Nolan for K. Devereux (55 mins).