Junior Championship Arva 2-08 Swanlinbar 4-10

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Arva were defeated by Swanlinbar in the quarter final of the Hotel Kilmore Junior Championship on Sunday last in the First Ulsters Park, Ballyconnell on a score line Swanlinbar 4-10 Arva 2-8. This was a game both sides will want to forget for different reasons – Arva for giving away 3 slack goals from which they could not hope to recover. This is a young Arva team and if they learn from this game it will stand to them in the future.

Arva Team

Peter Morris had the opening scores for Arva with 2 points in as many minutes but Swad hit back with 3 points in the 4^th(free), 5^th and 7^th minutes to take the lead. Morris levelled matters in the 9^th minute from a free but Swad replied 2 minutes later to lead once more. In the 13^th minute Gavin Doyle was heading for Goal when he was held and from the resultant penalty Shane Bouchier made no mistake to put Arva 2 points ahead. It was just seconds later that Swad had a player Red Carded and as so often happens they upped their game and in the 16^th minute they scored a great goal to put them ahead once more and they led from there to the finish. A pointed free (18 mins) and a pointed “45” (19 mins) pushed them further ahead, Morris was on target for Arva in the 20^th minute while Swad pointed another “45” a minute later. Gavin Doyle punched a great point (23 mins) and Thomas Brady pointed (25^th min) to leave a point between the sides. The winners pointed another free (27 mins) but disaster struck just before half time when a pass out of the Arva defence was intercepted and sent to the net to leave the half time score Swanlinbar 2-8 Arva 1-6.

If the first half ended badly for Arva the start of the second half was a disaster. A high ball into the Arva goalmouth sailed over the fingers of the backs and into the net in the second minute. Thomas Brady ( 3 mins) & Alan Barry ( 4 mins) left 2 goals between them but in the 6^th minute a free for Swad sailed into the Arva net just like the previous one. In fairness to the Arva players they did not lie down and were rewarded with a goal from Thomas Brady a minute later. That was as good as it got for Arva and they failed to score from there to the finish. Swanlinbar got 2 more points in the 9^th(free) & 15^th minutes and for the final quarter there was no score as the game turned into a niggling affair with 2 Arva players sent off after they were caught retaliating.

Arva Team – Darragh Fox, Shane Bouchier (1-0), Dermot Mc Glade, Philip Galligan, Stephen Ellis, Fergal Brady, Conor Mc Entee, Fergal Mc Glade, James Morris, David Bouchier (Capt), Alan Barry (0-1), Brian Ellis, Thomas Brady (1-2), Peter Morris (0-4), Gavin Doyle (0-1). Sub’s used - Patrick Murtagh, Brian Fitzpatrick, Sean Donnelly. Arva have 3 games left in the Division 3 League and are still in the shake up for honours depending on results.

August 31, 2009 (9:53PM)

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