Senior Hurling Championship – Friday 15th August 2014
Kilmallock 0-17 Effin 0-14
This was no vintage performance from Kilmallock. This game was not a classic – but it’s better to win a game playing badly than to lose a classic. We must try to take the positives, few though they were, from this game and move forward.
The teams went in at half-time tied at eight points each. Six points from Eoin Ryan – four from frees and one from a 65 kept Kilmallock in touch against an Effin side that hunted and fought for every ball.
The Kilmallock supporters expected Kilmallock to come out with all guns blazing in the second-half but this expectation never materialised and the second-half continued as the first-half had finished with too many misplaced passes and far too many wides, too many unforced errors. It must be a cause for concern that in the entire sixty minutes we had no goal chance nor did we create a goal-scoring chance. Effin, to their credit, battled on right to the end and it was a relieved Kilmallock following that greeted Johnny Murphy’s full-time whistle as Effin pushed and threatened to get the score that would have forced a draw.
Team : Barry Hennessy, Liam Hurley, Mark O’Loughlin, John Meade, Aaron Costello, Philip O’Loughlin, Liam Walsh, (0-1) Eoin Ryan (0-10, six frees, one 65), Paudie O’Brien (0-1), Robbie Egan (0-3), Gavin O’Mahony (0-1), Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Graeme Mulcahy (Captain) (0-1), Jake Mulcahy, Conor Barry.
Substitutes : Benny Burke for O’Shaughnessy 40 mins, Kieran Kenneally for Barry 42 mins.
