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Carbery Rangers’ John O’Rourke is tackled by Valley Rovers’ Adam Kenneally. Picture: Denis Boyle<\/p>\nCarbery Rangers: 1-9 (1-0-9)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Valley Rovers: 1-9 (1-1-7)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Valley Rovers fought back from seven points down to force a replay with Carbery Rangers after a tense McCarthy Insurance Group Premier SFC relegation play-off at Enniskeane on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
A draw looked very unlikely in truth, but a stirring comeback from the Carrigdhoun men ensured their top-flight status remains intact for another while.<\/p>\n
Cork senior footballer Jacob O\u2019Driscoll\u2019s late goal means the teams must meet again in the coming weeks with a date for the replay to be confirmed shortly.<\/p>\n
Carbery Rangers will be kicking themselves as to how the victory slipped from their fingers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just 1-1 scored in the second 30 minutes. Their last score came after 43 minutes in what was a total malfunction in the final quarter from them albeit their opposition did show plenty of composure to eke out the necessary scores.<\/p>\n
After the game finished in a wealth of excitement, it was a tame enough start. Cork U20 footballer Timmy Cullinane landed a pair of points inside four minutes which settled Carbery Rangers.<\/p>\n
After a slow enough opening by Valley Rovers, they raised white flags from Adam Walsh-Murphy and a Ciar\u00e1n McCarthy effort after great work by Johnnie Kiely.<\/p>\n
Carbery Rangers’ John O’Rourke is tackled by Valley Rovers’ Adam Kenneally. Picture: Denis Boyle<\/p>\n
Parity was short-lived for the Innishannon team. John O\u2019Rourke, Paul Hodnett and Cullinane all bisected the posts as Carbery Rangers led 0-5 to 0-2 after 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
The West Cork team were doing all the football, much more urgency and slickness.<\/p>\n
John O\u2019Rourke sent over a beauty, but to only be bettered by a pair of sublime Paul Hodnett efforts, 0-8 to 0-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Valley Rovers brought out Fiachra Lynch from full-forward on occasions given their trouble in claiming sustained possession.<\/p>\n
It did work at times, but they managed three wides in the opening half as they didn\u2019t show enough attacking intent, 0-8 to 0-2 at half-time.<\/p>\n
Whatever wind that was present, it was favouring Valley Rovers for the new half.<\/p>\n
Patient play was rewarded for Denis Kiely\u2019s charges when McCarthy kicked a two-pointer from play after sub Rory O\u2019Sullivan did well to make it happen.<\/p>\n
A potentially crucial moment arrived though after 38 minutes, Valley Rovers made a mistake coming out of defence and it was punished when John O\u2019Rourke was fouled and a penalty was awarded.<\/p>\n
Paul Hodnett saw his effort saved by Billy Curtin, but the ball fell nicely for the forward to tap home to the net, 1-8 to 0-4.<\/p>\n
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Valley Rovers’ Eoin Guinane on the move. Picture: Denis Boyle<\/p>\n
The teams traded points before a McCarthy effort did keep Valley Rovers just about in touch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They were showing more fight and adventure, points from Lynch and Adam Walsh-Murphy left their side 1-9 to 0-8 adrift with seven minutes remaining of normal time.<\/p>\n
Another McCarthy white flag left three points in it before a goal in added time from O\u2019Driscoll drew Valley\u2019s level.<\/p>\n
It was a lovely flick from close range after a gorgeous floating delivery sent into the square by Darragh Murphy.<\/p>\n
There was still time for a hero. Carbery Rangers\u2019 goalkeeper Paul Shanahan had a two-point effort from a free right at the death, but his effort tailed wide.<\/p>\n
Both teams will have to meet again.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Carbery Rangers: P Hodnett 1-4, T Cullinane 0-3, J O\u2019Rourke 0-2.<\/p>\n
Valley Rovers: C McCarthy 0-5 (1 2pt), A Walsh-Murphy 0-3, J O\u2019Driscoll 1-0, F Lynch 0-1.<\/p>\n
CARBERY RANGERS: P Shanahan; J Kevane, T O\u2019Rourke, C Daly; S Linehan, J O\u2019Riordan, J Hodnett; B Hodnett, J O\u2019Brien; M Hodnett, J O’Rourke, P Hodnett; T Cullinane, D Hayes, C Twomey.<\/p>\n
Subs: C McCarthy for J O\u2019Riordan (43, inj), P O\u2019Rourke for M Hodnett, C Santry for P Hodnett (both 52), B Shanahan for D Hayes (58).<\/p>\n
VALLEY ROVERS: B Curtin; C O\u2019Keeffe, E Delaney, M Woods; A Walsh-Murphy, J O\u2019Driscoll, E Guinane; D Murphy, C Johnson; A Kenneally, J Kiely, J Walsh; C McCarthy, F Lynch, S McEntee.<\/p>\n
Subs: R O\u2019Sullivan for C Johnson (h-t), D Muckian for S McEntee (40), L Casey for J Kiely, A Casey for A Kenneally (both 55).<\/p>\n
Referee: Robert Whelan (Gleann na Laoi).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carbery Rangers: 1-9 (1-0-9)\u00a0 Valley Rovers: 1-9 (1-1-7)\u00a0 Valley Rovers fought back from seven points down to force…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-47476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47476","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=47476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}