{"id":131498,"date":"2025-11-10T03:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:32:09","slug":"ballinora-hurlers-outgun-belgooly-to-move-into-junior-a-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131498\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballinora hurlers outgun Belgooly to move into Junior A semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Ballinora 2-25 Belgooly 2-15\n <\/p>\n

Ballinora qualified for the Co-op Superstores Junior A Hurling Championship semi-final against Cobh after they defeated Belgooly before a good-sized attendance at Minane Bridge.<\/p>\n

Favoured by a slight breeze in the opening half, Ballinora were on top, before Belgooly turned the screw with four unanswered points before the interval. The second half was more evenly contested as Belgooly out-goaled Ballinora by two goals to one. Belgooly\u2019s second goal came with the game\u2019s last play as Ryan Long set up Barry Dwyer, to leave ten points between the sides.<\/p>\n

Barry Dwyer opened the scoring with a pointed free for Belgooly, within a minute of the throw-in before Alan O\u2019 Shea replied with a point from play for Ballinora.<\/p>\n

Ballinora had the Carrigdhoun side on the back foot as persistent fouling was proving to be costly for Belgooly. Mark O\u2019Brien slotted over a point from play for the Muskerry side and Ben Mayer converted four frees, to give Ballinora a lead of 0-6 to 0-1, before Ryan Long responded with Belgooly\u2019s first point from play.<\/p>\n

\"JamesJames Byrne and Colin O’Flynn, Ballinora, rise high with Barry Dwyer, Belgooly.\u00a0Picture: Jim Coughlan.<\/p>\n

In the tenth minute, Mayer capitalised on a defensive error by Belgooly net-minder Ruair\u00ed Dwyer to goal and extend the Mid Cork side\u2019s lead to seven points.<\/p>\n

Ballinora tagged on four unanswered points from play, before Barry Dwyer slotted over two frees.<\/p>\n

Mayer scored three points, including two from placed balls. Darragh Corkery added a further point, before the Carrigdhoun side began to get to grips with the game. Belgooly tagged on six unanswered points, including one free. Mayer replied with a free for Ballinora to leave his side leading 1-15 to 0-10 at the interval.<\/p>\n

Mayer got the opening score of the second half for Ballinora, courtesy of a free, before Barry Dwyer replied with two pointed frees for the Carrigdhoun side. Mayer and Liam Lyons got the second half\u2019s first two scores from play. Barry Dwyer responded with his third free of the second half, before Belgooly found themselves pinned back.<\/p>\n

Ballinora tagged on four unanswered points, before Long got Belgooly\u2019s first score from play in the second half. Liam Lyons replied with a point for the Muskerry side.<\/p>\n

In the 48th minute, Long set up Barry Dwyer for the Carrigdhoun side\u2019s first goal, which left the scoreline reading 1-23 to 1-14 in Ballinora\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n

Darragh Corkery set up Mayer for Ballinora\u2019s second goal, with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

\n Scorers for Ballinora: B Mayer 2-14 (0-8\u00a0 f, 0-2 65), L Lyons 0-5, A O’Shea, T Burns, M O\u2019Brien, D Corkery, J Keohane, J Hegarty 0-1 each.<\/p>\n

\n Belgooly: B Dwyer 2-11 (0-8f); R Long 0-3, C O\u2019Donovan 0-1.<\/p>\n

\n BALLINORA: B Crowley; T Forde, N Lordan, J Byrne; M O\u2019Brien, S Kingston, C O\u2019Flynn; L Lyons, T Burns; D Holmes, D Dineen, S Lyons; B Mayer, D Corkery, A O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: J Keohane for O\u2019Shea, J Hegarty for Holmes (both h\/t), C Quirke for Dineen (42), B Carbery for S Lyons (49), C O\u2019Donoghue for L Lyons (56),<\/p>\n

\n BELGOOLY: R Dwyer; J O\u2019Sullivan, T O\u2019Donovan, N O\u2019Sullivan; R Reynolds, G O\u2019Riordan, C O\u2019Sullivan; S Kiely, C O\u2019Donovan; E Corkery, E O\u2019Donovan, B Dwyer; R Long, M Kenny, J Dwyer.<\/p>\n

\n Subs: K Fitzgerald for Kenny (h\/t), E Lynch for J Dwyer (43), F Walsh for E Corkery (60).<\/p>\n

\n Referee: Willie Wallis (Aghada).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballinora 2-25 Belgooly 2-15 Ballinora qualified for the Co-op Superstores Junior A Hurling Championship semi-final against Cobh after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-131498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}