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\nColm Basquel celebrated scoring Ballyboden’s second goal, a penalty in the 21st minute<\/p>\n
Ballyboden St Enda’s 2-19 Tullamore 0-10<\/p>\n
Leinster championship favourites Ballyboden St Enda’s produced a top-quality performance to qualify for the final with an easier-than-expected win over an emerging Tullamore in O’Connor Park on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The visitors were almost unstoppable and had one foot in the final when they led by fourteen points at half-time.<\/p>\n
They were pushed onto the back foot in the second half as Tullamore finally produced the type of football they are capable of for 15 minutes, playing with the wind.<\/p>\n
They scored six points without reply, three of them Harry Plunkett frees, but the gap was still a prohibitive eight points.<\/p>\n
\nColm Basquel celebrated scoring Ballyboden’s second goal, a penalty in the 21st minute<\/p>\n
A 47th-minute point from Daire Sweeney settled Ballyboden, took the sting out of Tullamore and the winners sauntered home with the last six points as they extended their half-time lead by one, to fifteen points.<\/p>\n
It was a very impressive display by Ballyboden while it just didn’t happen for Tullamore \u2013 their brightest emerging talent Cillian Bourke is heading to Australia to take up a professional playing contract with Essendon on Sunday – while defensive lynchpin John Furlong was an early injury casualty, going off after 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Dublin club played some great attacking football once they settled in the first half, striding into a 2-12 to 0-04 half-time lead.<\/p>\n
The home side started well and led by 0-02 to 0-01 after five minutes but a goal from Ross McGarry after just eighth minutes swung the momentum. They almost followed up with a second goal when Ryan Basquel blasted over with the goals at his mercy, and dominated until the half-time whistle.<\/p>\n
With the wind on their backs, Colm Basquel got their second goal from a 21st minute penalty when the superb Ryan O’Dwyer was fouled by Michael Brazil. That gave Ballyboden a 2-08 to 0-03 lead and they went for the jugular.<\/p>\n
O’Dwyer added his third and fourth points as Ballyboden strode into that fourteen point half-time lead.<\/p>\n
Ballyboden St Enda’s : Hugh O’Sullivan; Brian Bobbett, Cathal Flaherty, Ryan Baynes; James Holland, Patrick Warren, Peter Healy; Cein D’Darcy (0-01), Alex Gavin; Patrick Dunleavy, Colm Basquel (1-00, p), Ryan O’Dwyer (0-05); Ross McGarry (1-01), Daire Sweeney (0-09, 3f, 1tp) Ryan Basquel (0-03, 1f).<\/p>\n
Subs: Harry Donahy for Gavin (35′), Luke O’Donoghue for Leavy (51′), Callum O’Dwyer for Colm Basquel (52m), Kieran Kennedy for Healy (55′), Darren O’Reilly for Ryan Basquel (58′),<\/p>\n
Tullamore: Corey White; Ben Heffernan, Declan Hogan, Daire McDaid; Cormac Egan, John Furlong, Oisin Keenan-Martin; Cillian Bourke (0-2), Aaron Leavy; Diarmuid Egan, Michael Brazil, Niall Furlong (0-02); Mike Fox, Luke Plunkett (0-01), Harry Plunkett (0-05, 5f).<\/p>\n
Subs: Luke Bourke for John Furlong, inj. (17′), Liam Dillane for Brazil (52′), Shane Dooley for Luke Plunkett (62′).<\/p>\n
Referee: Brendan Cawley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballyboden St Enda’s 2-19 Tullamore 0-10 Leinster championship favourites Ballyboden St Enda’s produced a top-quality performance to qualify…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-166261","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\/166261","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=166261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}