{"id":74065,"date":"2025-09-19T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74065\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:00:10","slug":"midleton-fight-back-to-beat-glen-rovers-and-book-semi-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74065\/","title":{"rendered":"Midleton fight back to beat Glen Rovers and book semi-final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Midleton 2-19\n <\/p>\n

\n Glen Rovers 2-17\n <\/p>\n

A third consecutive Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC semi-final place awaits Midleton after they produced a strong comeback to overcome Glen Rovers at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Trailing by five points at half-time, the Magpies fell seven behind early in the second half but managed to regain a foothold in the game when Cormac Beausang scored his second goal of the contest. Having got level by the 56th minute, Midleton were behind again as the Glen\u2019s Simon Kennefick sent over two points in the space of a minute \u2013 however, they were the city side\u2019s only scores of the last quarter and Midleton had another surge.<\/p>\n

Sub Luke O\u2019Farrell halved the deficit and then, after good Eoin Moloney defending had denied Stephen Lynam at the other end, the ever-industrious Mikey Finn was fouled, Conor Lehane levelling with his ninth point of the night.<\/p>\n

\"GlenGlen Rovers pair Conor McCarthy and Miche\u00e1l Mullins put pressure on Midleton’s Cormac Beausang.\u00a0Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n

Extra time was on the minds of the sizeable crowd at the Boreenmanna Road venue but Midleton ensured there would be no need for it. O\u2019Farrell pointed again to put them ahead for the first time since late in the first half and from the puckout, a turnover led to another replacement, David Cremin being fouled, Lehane converting again as the clock moved past 64 minutes.<\/p>\n

There was time for one last Glen attack and Jake Brosnan was fouled \u2013 Patrick Horgan had earlier sent a free to the net as part of a haul of 2-9 but this time he couldn\u2019t find the right connection and Midleton cleared, the final whistle confirming their progress to a meeting with Blackrock.<\/p>\n

The Glen had led from the moment Horgan rifled a free to the net in the 24th minute. <\/p>\n

The county star\u2019s fifth point had levelled at 1-7 on 24 minutes when the city side were awarded a free from where the ball landed following a late foul. There was a long delay as referee Wayne King attended to some administrative work and perhaps that relaxed Midleton minds \u2013 either way, Horgan opted for a low driven effort and, as in the group game against Sarsfields at the same venue, he was rewarded.<\/p>\n

\" Eoin Downey of Glen Rovers gets a shot away as Midleton’s Conor Lehane closes in. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n

At half-time, the Glen led by 2-10 to 1-8, with the teams\u2019 exit for the dressing-rooms accompanied by a few scuffles that led to a yellow card each prior to the start of the second half.<\/p>\n

A strong Miche\u00e1l Mullins run from the throw-in helped to extend that lead to six and they were seven ahead, 2-13 to 1-9, as Horgan landed his ninth following build-up play from Rhys Dunne and Simon Kennefick.<\/p>\n

By the 41st minute, Midleton were back to within six but they still needed something \u2013 they got it when Eoin Moloney won a good ball at midfield and fed Tommy O\u2019Connell, who in turn handpassed to Cormac Beausang, who scored his second goal of the game: 2-14 to 2-11.<\/p>\n

The Glen missed chances to push on again, while Lehane\u2019s points, along with a good contribution from Killian McDermott, helped Midleton to stay in touch before the late push.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Horgan had already opened the scoring from a free when he deftly collected an Eoin Downey delivery and worked himself into a shooting position before firing a low shot beyond county colleague Brion Saunderson.<\/p>\n

The goal gave the Glen an early cushion but nice points from Finn and wing-back Ross O\u2019Regan gave Midleton a foothold. It was 1-3 to 0-3 when Midleton won a sideline in the left half-forward area and Killian McDermott\u2019s quick puck set Cormac Beausang away \u2013 having worked his way in along the endline, he poked a low shot home from a tight angle to level.<\/p>\n

Much of the rest of the first half was entertaining without sparking to life as the sides broke even, but the latter spell of the half saw the Glen establish some daylight, with Conor McCarthy excellent in the full-back line for them.<\/p>\n

A Miche\u00e1l Mullins point followed and by the interval, they were five to the good. It would grow to the seven early in the second half, but Midleton were never beaten.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Midleton: C Lehane 0-10 (0-8 f), C Beausang 2-1, K McDermott 0-3, R O\u2019Regan, L O\u2019Farrell 0-2 each, M Finn 0-1. <\/p>\n

\n Glen Rovers: P Horgan 2-9 (1-6 f), S Kennefick 0-3, M Mullins, E O\u2019Leary 0-2 each, L Horgan 0-1.<\/p>\n

\n MIDLETON: B Saunderson; C Smyth, E Moloney, T O\u2019Leary Hayes; L Dineen, T O\u2019Connell, R O\u2019Regan; S O\u2019Meara, M Finn; C Walsh, C Lehane, K McDermott; P White, C Beausang, A Quirke.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: D Cremin for Walsh, L O\u2019Farrell for Quirke (both 40), E McGrath for O\u2019Meara (49), P Connaughton for White (51), S O\u2019Sullivan for Smyth (57).<\/p>\n

\n GLEN ROVERS: C Hickey; C McCarthy, A Lynch, L Coughlan; B Moylan, E Downey, R Downey; A O\u2019Donovan, M Mullins; L Horgan, D Brosnan, R Dunne; S Kennefick, P Horgan, E O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: J Brosnan for O\u2019Donovan, L Quilligan for Dunne (both 50), S Lynam for D Brosnan (57).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: W King (Banteer\/Lyre).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midleton 2-19 Glen Rovers 2-17 A third consecutive Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC semi-final place awaits Midleton after they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74066,"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-74065","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\/74065","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=74065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}