\n Bride Rovers 1-18 St Ita’s 1-15\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Bride Rovers have booked their place in the final of the East Cork JAHC Final following a deserved victory over St Ita’s at Dungourney on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Level at the interval, Rovers moved four points ahead midway through the second half before it almost came crashing down upon them.<\/p>\n
Ciaran O’Brien converted a 65, Seamus Harnedy was cool as a cucumber with the next 0-6 from play, and then came what looked like the game-changing moment.<\/p>\n
Daniel Hickey, who finished up with 1-4, was on hand to pounce on a breaking ball to fire to the back of the net to put his side in front on 50 minutes: 1-15 to 1-14.<\/p>\n
It was level again when the impressive Shaun Knox converted a free and he had Bride Rovers back in front this time from a 65. They moved three clear when Cormac Barry raised two white flags.<\/p>\n
Ita’s had their chances but Hickey missed two crucial frees on the bounce which he would normally put over… small margins.<\/p>\n
The favourites actually only led on three occasions, though that included after Hickey’s late goal. In the end, Rovers’ second team pulled off a huge upset.<\/p>\n
Ita’s opening score was cancelled within an instant when Knox fired to the back of the net. His free after 13 minutes put them 1-5 to 0-3 ahead.<\/p>\n
Ita’s got motoring through as they outscored the Rovers by 0-7 to 0-1 to put them a point ahead by the 27th minute 0-10 to 1-6.<\/p>\n
Cormac Barry leveled up the game on the stroke of half-time from a free.<\/p>\n
The second half was end-to-end with both sides going score for score level on 38 minutes when Cathal Deane pointed a monstrous effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Heagarty also added his name to the score sheets but when the game was in the melting pot the Rovers showed great character.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Bride Rovers: S Knox 1-7 (0-6 f, 0-1 65), Cormac Barry (0-2 f), D Dooley 0-3 each, Cillian Barry, E Cashman 0-2 each, R O’Callaghan 0-1.<\/p>\n
\n St Ita’s: D Hickey 1-4 (0-3 f), S Harnedy 0-6, C O’Brien (1 f, 1 65), C Deane 0-2 each, J Heagarty 0-1.<\/p>\n
\n BRIDE ROVERS: R O’Riordan; E O’Connor, T O’Sullivan; L Collins (c); K Cotter, A Hynes, O Roche; Cormac Barry, R Prendergast; Cillian Barry, C O’Sullivan, D Dooley; R O’Callaghan, E Cashman, S Knox.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C O’Connor for O’Callaghan (46), M Collins for Cashman (57), J Mannix for Cillian Barry (61 inj).<\/p>\n
\n ST ITA’S: P O’Brien (c); E Hegarty, B McCarthy, G Griffin; C O’Brien; M Doherty, M Lillis, G Coleman; M O’Brien, M Coleman; S Harnedy, H Connon, D Hickey, C Deane, J Hegarty.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: D Collins for Doherty (HT), D O’Brien for Lillis (43), J McCarthy for Griffin (42).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: Cathal McAllister ( Aghada)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bride Rovers 1-18 St Ita’s 1-15\u00a0 Bride Rovers have booked their place in the final of the East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,129,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-115494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-hurling","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}