\n Na Piarsaigh 2-14 Fermoy 0-17\n <\/p>\n
Two second-half goals secured Na Piarsaigh\u2019s win over Fermoy in their Co-op Superstores SAHC clash at Lisgoold on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
The win was enough to see them go through on points difference over their opponents as they bounced back from losses to Killeagh and Carrigtwohill to secure a quarter-final spot.<\/p>\n
Over the hour they were deserving winners, but they were made battle right to the finish by Fermoy.<\/p>\n
It was only when the final whistle went Piarsaigh could relax and celebrate going through over a devastated Fermoy.<\/p>\n
Ross O\u2019Sullivan and Padraig Guest got the all-important goals as they now have a quarter-final to look forward to in a few weeks.<\/p>\n
Na Piarsaigh got off to a blistering start and before Fermoy knew what hit they were 0-6 to no score behind, after 10 minutes play.<\/p>\n
Padraig Guest got their first, with Ross O\u2019Sullivan adding a second from a free inside the first two minutes.<\/p>\n
Another free from O\u2019Sullivan extended their lead, with DJ Coffey making it 0-4 to no score with seven minutes played.<\/p>\n
Guest and Craig Hanafin added scores to see the city side well in front.<\/p>\n
Credit Fermoy they worked their way into contention, with Brian O\u2019Sullivan getting their first score from a free. Shane Aherne added a second, with O\u2019Sullivan replying at the other end.<\/p>\n
Fermoy then enjoyed their best spell of the first half as they hit four without reply.<\/p>\n
Kieran Morrison made it 0-7 to 0-3, before Aherne got his second to reduce the deficit.<\/p>\n
Two frees from Brian O\u2019Sullivan put only a point between the sides, before Ross O\u2019Sullivan pointed for Piarsaigh to stretch it to two again, 0-8 to 0-6.<\/p>\n
Another Brian O\u2019Sullivan free, followed by a magnificent point from Morrison had the sides level as the game went into injury time.<\/p>\n
With the last shot of the half Ross O\u2019Sullivan put Piarsaigh back in front as his side led by 0-9 to 0-8 at the break. <\/p>\n
Brian O\u2019Sullivan levelled early after the restart before Coffey set up Guest for Piarsaigh\u2019s first goal, to make it 1-10 to 0-9.<\/p>\n
Brian O\u2019Sullivan hit back with two in a row, before Ross O\u2019Sullivan got his side\u2019s second goal, after 42 minutes, to make it 2-10 to 0-11.<\/p>\n
With five minutes to go Fermoy were still in contention as points from David Lardner and Shane Coughlan, from a free, made it 2-12 to 0-15. <\/p>\n
Piarsaigh hit back through Guest and Hanafin to put them five to the good and a safety margin of two in the scoring difference charts.<\/p>\n
Fermoy got two late points but it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Na Piarsaigh: R O\u2019Sullivan 1-6 (0-6 f), P Guest 1-4 (0-2 f), C Hanafin 0-2, DJ Coffey, O Galvin 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Fermoy: B O\u2019Sullivan 0-10 (0-8 f), A Aherne, K Morrison 0-2 each, D Lardner, S Coughlan (f), J O\u2019Brien 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n NA PIARSAIGH: J Lonergan; C Meaney, C Flynn, P Murphy; G Healy, C Buckley, K Buckley; C Hogan, C Hanafin; K Moynihan, DJ Coffey, P Rourke; P Guest, R O\u2019Sullivan, E Sheehan.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: L Sheehan for C Flynn (22 inj), O Galvin for P Rourke (ht), K Sheehan for C Meaney (40 inj), E Kidney for R O\u2019Sullivan (54).<\/p>\n
\n FERMOY: S Coughlan; G Lardner, L Aherne, B McGrath; P De Roiste, J O\u2019Brien, K Morrison; M Brennan, D O\u2019Carroll; J Molloy, B O\u2019Sullivan, D Daly; J Carr, S Aherne, P Murphy.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: T Clancy for D O\u2019Carroll (43), D Lardner for J Molloy (50), A Aherne for D Daly (63).<\/p>\n
Referee: Wayne King (Banteer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Na Piarsaigh 2-14 Fermoy 0-17 Two second-half goals secured Na Piarsaigh\u2019s win over Fermoy in their Co-op Superstores…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,24,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-48027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-gaa","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48027","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=48027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}