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Cathal Cormack of Blackrock gets his handpass away towards his brother Diarmuid, under pressure from Charleville pair Tim Mawe and Garrett Gleeson. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n\n
Blackrock 2-27<\/p>\n
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Charleville 1-17<\/p>\n
\n The voluntary loss of home advantage was no impediment as Blackrock bettered Charleville in Sunday afternoon\u2019s RedFM Hurling League Division 1 clash at Mourneabbey.
Clyda Rovers\u2019 home will host the Rockies\u2019 last group game against Kanturk in the Co-op SuperStores Premier SHC at the beginning of September and so they opted to use this as an organisational dry-run; they will hope for a similar outcome on the scoreboard.\n <\/p>\n
\n Results elsewhere had meant that both sides\u2019 slim hopes of reaching the league final had ended before the game began. With the stiff breeze in their favour, Charleville the boost of an early goal as Tim Hawe\u2019s turnover allowed Cathal O\u2019Carroll to set up David Forde for a first-minute goal but, once Blackrock hit the front, they hung on to the lead.\n <\/p>\n
\n While Michael O\u2019Halloran was denied a goal as goalkeeper Scott Berry took the ball off the line, the Rockies\u2019 scoring power was evident as they had ten first-half scorers.\n <\/p>\n
Cathal Cormack of Blackrock gets his handpass away towards his brother Diarmuid, under pressure from Charleville pair Tim Mawe and Garrett Gleeson. Picture: Jim Coughlan<\/p>\n
\n Niall Cashman was heavily involved at midfield and had two points to his name before he dovetailed with Kevin O\u2019Keeffe for O\u2019Halloran to find the net on 18 minutes.\n <\/p>\n
\n That made it 1-11 to 1-4 and Mark O\u2019Keeffe, another to impress, might have goaled too but Berry denied him \u2013 at the other end, Gavin Connolly made a good block when Charleville\u2019s O\u2019Carroll had an opportunity.\n <\/p>\n
\n By half-time the lead was 1-14 to 1-8 and O\u2019Halloran and sub Ciar\u00e1n Cormack extended the advantage on the restart. Goalkeeper Connolly landed two huge points from play as they made use of the elements while Kevin O\u2019Keeffe and Fionn Coleman were prominent as Blackrock maintained the upper hand.\n <\/p>\n
\n Sub Conor Buckley did well for Charleville, who had good second-half scores from Se\u00e1n Bresnan and Garett Gleeson, but Alan O\u2019Callaghan and John Cashman was good in a Blackrock defence that didn\u2019t give a lot away.\n <\/p>\n
\n They had a second goal when Diarmuid Cormack\u2019s good delivery was won by O\u2019Halloran, who applied a smart finish. David Forde went close to another for Charleville but shot wide \u2013 they did have some late joy when they were awarded a penalty, converted by Robert Carroll, but the outcome had been decided long before the end.\n <\/p>\n
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Scorers for Blackrock: <\/p>\n
M O\u2019Halloran 2-6 (0-2 f), N Cashman, K O\u2019Keeffe 0-4 each, G Connolly 0-3 (0-1 f), R Sweeney, A O\u2019Callaghan 0-2 each, P Linehan, Ciar\u00e1n Cormack, F Coleman, D O\u2019Farrell, M O\u2019Keeffe, D Meaney 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
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Charleville: <\/p>\n
R Carroll 1-7 (1-0 penalty, 0-3 f, 0-1 65), D Forde 1-4 (0-3 f), S Bresnan 0-3, G Gleeson 0-2, C Buckley 0-1.<\/p>\n
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BLACKROCK: <\/p>\n
G Connolly; J Ryan, Cathal Cormack, D Cormack; A O\u2019Callaghan, J Cashman, M O\u2019Keeffe; N Cashman, D O\u2019Farrell; F Coleman, K O\u2019Keeffe, R Sweeney; D Meaney, M O\u2019Halloran, P Linehan.<\/p>\n
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Subs: <\/p>\n
S Healy for Cathal Cormack (30, injured), Ciar\u00e1n Cormack for Linehan (half-time), R O\u2019Riordan for D Cormack (43), I O\u2019Keeffe for Meaney (50), G Norberg for J Cashman (52), F O\u2019Keeffe for N Cashman (54), A Geary for Coleman (55), N Cashman for O\u2019Callaghan (58, injured).<\/p>\n
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CHARLEVILLE: <\/p>\n
S Berry; D Butler, J Meade, A Dennehy; O O\u2019Connell, F Cagney, B O\u2019Connell; J Callaghan, C O\u2019Carroll; S Bresnan, D Forde, R Carroll; DJ Collins, T Hawe, G Gleeson.<\/p>\n
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Subs: <\/p>\n
J Madigan for O\u2019Connell, C Buckley for Collins (both half-time).<\/p>\n
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Referee: <\/p>\n
C O\u2019Regan (Ballyhea).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackrock 2-27 Charleville 1-17 The voluntary loss of home advantage was no impediment as Blackrock bettered Charleville in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-499687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499687","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=499687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}