Electric Ireland All-Ireland Minor Football semi-final<\/p>\n
Tyrone 1-15 Kildare 1-12<\/p>\n
By Francis Mooney at Kingspan Breffni<\/p>\n
All-Ireland Minor champions Tyrone survived a scare at Kingspan Breffni to edge out a gritty Kildare side and book their place in another final.<\/p>\n
Jack Reilly\u2019s superb 1-7 haul, all from play, was not enough to earn what would have been only the Lilywhites\u2019 second appearance in the Markham Cup decider.<\/p>\n
Their hopes were high as they approached the final quarter, with a one point lead, but the Red Hands seized control of the middle third in a dominant final quarter, pushing for home with Matthew F Daly\u2019s 0-6 contribution and a stoic defensive showing, particularly from James Maguire and Aodhan Corry.<\/p>\n
Daly got the holders off to a strong start with a to-pointer inside the opening minute, but the Lilywhites took the lead with an eighth minute goal.<\/p>\n
It was centre back Jack Doran who made the surging run through the middle, before Jack Reilly nipped in to get a shot away, kept out by \u2018keeper Ronan O\u2019Neill, but Reilly netted the rebound from close range.<\/p>\n
Fionn Lawlor and Liam Mescal grabbed every opportunity to raid from deep for the Leinster champions, at the heart of the move that saw Aidan Tobin shoot them two ahead.<\/p>\n
But Tyrone carried a goal threat, Logan O\u2019Connor finding space to dart through and rifled a shot just wide.<\/p>\n
They did find the net in the 14th minute, Charlie Meenan forcing a turnover for Daly to send Conan Canavan in to finish low past Joe Crotty.<\/p>\n
Kildare continued to press, with the strong running of twin brothers Jack and Charlie Doran keeping them on the front foot, but wasteful finishing saw them go 12 minutes without a score, before they hit four in the space of two minutes, two each from goalscorer Reilly and Greg Kelly, to go back in front.<\/p>\n
And they were denied a second goal by Ronan O\u2019Neill\u2019s fine save from substitute Logan Tennyson.<\/p>\n
Tyrone turned it back in their favour with a Brian Og McGuckin two-pointer, before Matthew J Daly shot them ahead in stoppage time, 1-8 to 1-7 at the break.<\/p>\n
A strong start to the second half saw them add scores through Matthew F Daly and McGuckin, but sharpshooter Jack Reilly fired over a brilliant two-pointer to equalise, before firing his side back in front, bringing his tally to 1-6.<\/p>\n
As torrential rain battered Kingspan Breffni, Tyrone went level again through Aodhan Corry, and with Charlie Meenan and Tomas Gallen getting a foothold around the middle, went ahead with scores from Matthew F Daly and Matthew J Daly.<\/p>\n
Kildare\u2019s attacking opportunities were dwindling as the game progressed, but a chance for a crack at goal did fall to substitute Logan Tennyson, whose shot was deflected over for a point.<\/p>\n
As the Kildare lads tired in the closing stages, Tyrone tightened their grip on the middle third, with Matthew F Daly still full of running and a constant threat, punching over his sixth point of the evening<\/p>\n
The Lilywhites did have a late goal chance, but Ruairi O\u2019Neill blocked Eoghan Lyons\u2019 effort, and the Red Hands survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland All-Ireland Minor Football semi-final Tyrone 1-15 Kildare 1-12 By Francis Mooney at Kingspan Breffni All-Ireland Minor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-509512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509512","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=509512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}