{"id":155768,"date":"2025-11-23T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155768\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:09:08","slug":"scotstown-v-newbridge-match-abandoned-at-half-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155768\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotstown v Newbridge match abandoned at half-time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship semi-final between Scotstown and Newbridge in O’Neills Healy Park was abandoned at half-time due to an unplayable pitch.<\/p>\n

Amid torrential rain in Tyrone, the game was only able to reach the break with Monaghan side Scotstown 1-04 to 0-03 ahead.<\/p>\n

Referee Joe McQuillan tested the bounce of the ball on the surface during the interval before making his decision.<\/p>\n

It was the second of two matches to take place at the venue this afternoon, with an intermediate game played beforehand, which did little to help amid the inclement weather.<\/p>\n

A first half that saw both teams struggle to cope with underfoot challenges and the gale that turned this high profile fixture into a lottery.<\/p>\n

Dreadful conditions made creative, expansive and entertaining football an impossibility as both sides struggled to adapt.<\/p>\n

The Monaghan men quickly established control in the middle third, dominating the opposition kick-out as they edged ahead with scores from Rory Beggan (free) and Mattie Maguire.<\/p>\n

Eamon Young got the Derry champions off the mark, but in the 13th minute Mattie Maguire produced a moment of magic, spotting goalkeeper Nathan Rocks off his line and hitting the net with a delightful lob, all made possible by a piercing Darren Hughes pass.<\/p>\n

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\nThe waterlogged pitch in O’Neills Healy Park following heavy rain throughout the day<\/p>\n

As conditions worsened, Newbridge dug deep to get a foothold in the game, and the hard work of Padraig McGrogan and Conor Doherty gave them territory.<\/p>\n

Sean Young cut in to pick off point, and they had a golden goal chance when Conor McAteer’s shot dropped short, picked up by Callum McGrogan in behind the last defender, but Beggan came to the rescue with the save.<\/p>\n

Scotstown defended with discipline as the pressure sustained, conceding just one point in the closing ten minutes of the haf, a second for Sean Young.<\/p>\n

But they managed just one score themselves in that scrappy spell, a Beggan two-pointer from a 45 metre free with the last kick of the half, sending his side in with a 1-04 to 0-03 interval lead.<\/p>\n

No more action was possible.<\/p>\n

A meeting of the Ulster CCC will take place later this evening to decide the details of the re-fixture.<\/p>\n

Kilcoo are awaiting the winners in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship semi-final between Scotstown and Newbridge in O’Neills Healy Park was abandoned at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-155768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155768","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=155768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}