Hughes boys’ scoring spree aids Bredagh

24 May 2017

BREDAGH climbed to sixth in the league after they beat bottom of the table Drumaness by 11 points on Thursday evening.

In a pretty dour opening 10 minutes, both teams were continually turned over, continually gave away possession of the ball and kicked shots galore either short or wide.

Fortunately, the Hughes brothers, Donal (0-3) and Cormac (0-2) stepped up to the plate for Bredagh and thumped over some splendid long range efforts from play. Drumaness scored two points amidst these scores before Joe Shields ended the half with a point in the 30th minute.

Bredagh started the second half on the attack, Conor Francis pointing in the 31st minute and Drumaness responding from their midfielder Ryan Connolly two minutes later.

Francis then showed a clean pair of heels to the Drumaness defence when we went on a turbo charged run and coolly slotted into the bottom left hand corner of the goal.

The Hughes brothers were at it again and rattled over points in the 36th and 37th minute.

To their credit, Drumaness never gave up the chase and closed the nine point gap to four with two points from play and a expertly taken penalty by Brian McGivern in the 41st minute, but Bredagh upped their game in the last 10 minutes.

Conor Francis went on a blistering run and dispatched a shot that was brilliantly saved by the Drumaness ‘keeper Conor Donnelly only for the predatory Donal Hughes to thump the rebound into the net.

Bredagh’s hardworking midfielder Benny Hasson fisted over a score after a lung bursting run and Donal Hughes scored his second goal of the game after Francis went on another high octane run and passed the ball off to him.

Drumaness: Conor Donnelly, Philip Cassidy, Ryan Noade, Mark Rainey, Ryan Walsh, Gary Murdock (0-1), Brian McGivern (1-0), Ryan Connolly (0-1), Ryan Noade (0-1), Brett Ritchie (0-1), Neil Stranney, James McGivern, Nathan Jones (0-1), Sean Carville, Darren Lyons. Subs: Ryan Murdock for James McGivern, Conor Lynch for Lyons.

Bredagh: Odhran Devlin, Conal Tolland, Declan O’Hara, Chris Savage, Donal McKegney, Kevin Dornan, Michael Woods, B Hasson (0-1), Cormac Hughes (0-3), Emmett Costello, Joe Shields (0-1), Michael Robinson, Bryan Rice, Donal Hughes (2-4), Conor Francis (1-1). Subs: Kealan Devlin for Rice and Sean Blaney for Robinson.

Drumaness 1-5

Bredagh 3-10

ACFL DIVISION 2

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