It took just four penalty takers for Scotstown to seal their place in the Ulster final, with Beggan contributing both as a scorer and a saver.<\/p>\n
Newbridge missed twice, with the 33-year-old producing a crucial stop to deny the Derry champions – a situation he admitted he knows all too well.<\/p>\n
“They trusted me to take the penalty and I’m happy to reward them with that. I took a penalty in a county championship game one time and blazed the crossbar. It was just nice to put that wee demon to bed and put it in the net,” Beggan said.<\/p>\n
There was little between the sides in this marathon contest.<\/p>\n
Newbridge clawed back from eight points down to force extra time, but Beggan insisted penalties were no cause for panic given Scotstown’s experience.<\/p>\n
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\nRory Beggan makes a save in the penalty shootout<\/p>\n
“I’m just proud of every one of them players there, getting through all that,” he enthused. “As I said, they threw everything at us, we threw everything at them. Nobody folded, nobody blinked.<\/p>\n
“It just came down to the penalties and I said we’ve been in penalty positions before. I don’t think we’ve lost a penalty shootout in any inter-county or anything.<\/p>\n
“It’s a potluck really at the end of the day. But, calm heads and we have plenty of them in the squad.”<\/p>\n
And it’s not just shootouts Scotstown are used to – extra time is familiar territory too, as Beggan pointed out.<\/p>\n
“The last 10 years. We’ve faced all of this. We’ve been in extra time in two Ulster Club finals. We’ve went to the wire with Glen in another one.”<\/p>\n
Now, the focus shifts to Kilcoo. After this epic battle, Scotstown have 13 days to recover and prepare for a shot at their first Ulster Club title since 1989.<\/p>\n
Runners-up in 2015, 2018 and 2023, they were heavily beaten by Kilcoo at the semi-final stage last year, but Beggan says the goal is simple.<\/p>\n
“We have one more thing to do and we have to get over the line now.<\/p>\n
“That’s the focus for this squad over the next 13 days and nothing else will be good enough. We’ll be happy. We’ll enjoy tonight in terms of the result. Look back at it and then let’s get back to training on Tuesday night and see where we’re at.”<\/p>\n
The 2018 All-Star winner acknowledged Scotstown weren’t all at their best but praised younger players for their resilience, which they will need in spades again in just under two weeks’ time.<\/p>\n
“It needs the young lads coming through. We didn’t all perform to our best today… when you needed them to step up at times, big breaks won big tackles.<\/p>\n
“That’s the big part of these young lads, the mentality they’ve brought to the set-up. It’s not just the skill, it’s the mentality.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly two hours of drama in Omagh, one emotion summed it up for Scotstown goalkeeper Rory Beggan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-168866","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\/168866","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=168866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}