Boys in Blue lay down the law against Moysiders
Mark Noonan scored one of the three goals struck by Claremorris in their easy win away to Moy Davitts.
Claremorris took advantage of a lacklustre display from Moy Davitts to boost their own chances of reaching the knockout stages of the Mayo Senior Football League, with a comprehensive twelve points victory, in Foxford, last Friday evening.
The home side, who were missing a number of their regular starters, put in arguably their poorest display of the season with Claremorris able to create seven goal chances, hitting three of them.
The visitors raced into a three points lead with Darragh Fallon, Adam Beirne and James Shaughnessy pointing inside six minutes. Paul Gilmore was also unlucky to not hit the net after five minutes as Moy Davitts goalkeeper Chris McGlynn kept his effort out.
The home side got up and running through Padraig Ruane in the eighth minute and had closed the gap to one point by the eleventh.
The impressive Claremorris forwards took control once again, however, and pushed the lead out to five as Conor Og Dennedy, two points, Beirne, Shaughnessy and Gilmore were all on target.
Sean Kelly almost pulled Moy Davitts back into the game on 23 minutes when he was played throough on goal from the left wing but his shot at the near post was pushed out by Darragh Fallon.
That was the home side’s best chance of getting themselves right back into the game as they went in at the break five points down, Liam Byrne and Sean Kelly trading points with James Shaughnessy and David O’Reilly, to leave Claremorris in the ascendancy.
The cut and thrust that as evident in the opening period seemed to have been left in the dressing-rooms at half-time with just one point scored in the first fourteen minutes of the second-half. Brian Reape raised a white flag in the 36th minute to bring the gap back to four.
In that period the hosts hit four wides with Claremorris tallying up three of their own before the visitors hit the net for the first time in the 44th minute. Mark Maloney and Adam Beirne hand-passed their way through the heart of the home defence without a glove being laid on them before Maloney fired the ball under McGlynn from close range.
Moy Davitts would respond with three quickfire points through Ronan Clarke and a Padraig Ruane double but the game would be put beyond doubt in the 47th minute when Adam Beirne raised a green flag, burying the rebound after Chris McGlynn had saved the corner-forward’s initial shot.
Three minutes later and the lead would be in double digits as Mark Noonan ran through a gaping hole in the home defence to fire to the net from close range.
The game petered out from there as David Hurley, David O’Reilly and Matthew Macken added late points for the visitors with Padraig Ruane closing out the scoring with a later effort for the hosts.
Moy Davitts were missing up to ten players, including Conor Reid and Cian McHale who manager Paul McGarry might have hoped to have back following the end of Mayo’s inter-county season, but Claremorris were on fire at times and the hosts simply couldn’t handle their direct running.
Scorers – Claremorris: Adam Beirne 1-0-2 (0-1f), Mark Maloney and Mark Noonan 1-0-0 each, James Shaughnessy 0-0-3, Conor Og Dennedy and David O’Reilly 0-0-2 each, Matthew Macken, Paul Gilmore, Darragh Fallon (’45) and David Hurley 0-0-1 each.
Moy Davitts: Padraig Ruane 0-1-2, Ronan Clarke 0-0-2f, Brian Reape, Liam Byrne, Sean Kelly and Oisin McHugh 0-0-1 each.
Moy Davitts: Chris McGlynn; Ryan Binley, Tadhg Ruane, Kevin Moylette; Colm McHale, Oisin McHugh, Stephen Clarke; Ryan Kenny, Padraig Ruane; Sean Kelly, Brian Reape, Sean Mulroy; Liam Byrne, Ronan Clarke, Conor Ryder. Subs used: Ajay McGrath, Paul Byrne.
Claremorris: Darragh Fallon; Daniel Murphy, Paddy Barry, Rio Mortimer Paul Gilmore, Mark Noonan, Matthew Macken; Adam Vahey, Conor McGuinness; Conor Og Dennedy, Padraig Cummins, Mark Maloney; James Shaughnessy, David O’Reilly, Adam Beirne. Subs used: David Hurley, Conrad Dixon, Harry Smyth.
REF: Declan Corcoran (Islandeady)
