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Referee Cormac Dineen accompanied by captains James Kind (Passage) and Shane O’Donovan (Mayfield) before their opening AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A Football Championship opener <\/p>\n\n Passage 2-14 (2-2-10)\n <\/p>\n
\n Mayfield 1-13 (1-1-11)\n <\/p>\n
Passage got their AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A Football Championship campaign off to a winning start, as they defeated last year\u2019s beaten finalists Mayfield in their opener, before a sizeable attendance at Ballinlough on Friday night<\/p>\n
Passage held the early initiative with a pair of two-pointers, but Mayfield took the lead for the first time in the contest, on the stroke of half-time. Mayfield restricted Passage to a single score in the third quarter, but Passage\u2019s two goals, entering the final quarter, were to prove decisive.<\/p>\n
Aided by a slight breeze in the opening half, Killian Murphy gave Passage the lead as he landed a two-pointer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was cancelled out, as Mayfield responded with points from Paul Condon and Calvin O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n
Killian Murphy restored Passage\u2019s lead with his second two-pointer, but Mayfield drew level with two points, including a free by Condon.<\/p>\n
Dylan Barrett and Shane Burke each scored points for Passage, to give their side a lead of 0-6 to 0-4.<\/p>\n
Eddie Scanlan put the sides back on level terms with a two-pointer from play, but Passage moved in front by the minimum, courtesy of a pointed free by Killian Murphy.<\/p>\n
Referee Cormac Dineen accompanied by captains James Kind (Passage) and Shane O’Donovan (Mayfield) before their opening AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A Football Championship opener <\/p>\n
Paul Condon converted his second free for Mayfield, to level matters. Dan Lucey put Mayfield in the driving seat for the first time in the contest with a point from play.<\/p>\n
This left Mayfield leading 0-8 to 0-7 at the interval.<\/p>\n
Passage made the better start to the second half, but wayward shooting was proving to be costly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mayfield net-minder Eoin Cusack was also pulling off some spectacular saves in this period.<\/p>\n
Mayfield also had their moments, but Passage goalkeeper Callum Finnegan pulled off a point-blank save.<\/p>\n
Mayfield began to have Passage pinned back and their first score came in the 37th minute, when Shane O\u2019Donovan scored his first point.<\/p>\n
Mayfield stretched the margin to five points a minute later when Ronan O\u2019Keeffe set up Condon for the game\u2019s opening goal.<\/p>\n
Entering the final quarter, Passage had Mayfield on the back foot, and they got their first score of the second half, as Killian Murphy tagged on a point from play.<\/p>\n
Passage regained the lead as Noah White came off the bench and promptly scored two goals in two minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This left Passage leading by 2-8 to 1-9.<\/p>\n
Mayfield\u2019s kick-outs were going astray in the final quarter, and this was to be their undoing as they were outscored by 0-6 to 0-4. Killian Murphy, Scott Coughlan and White each got two points for Passage.<\/p>\n
Mayfield replied with two points by Shane O\u2019Donovan. Ronan O\u2019Keeffe also chipped in with one. Eoin O\u2019Sullivan added a further point, three minutes into time added on. <\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Passage: N White 2-2; K Murphy 0-8 (2 2pt, 0-1f); S Coughlan 0-2; D Barrett, S Burke 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Mayfield: P Condon 1-4 (0-2f); E Scanlan 0-2 (1 2pt); S O\u2019Donovan 0-3; C O\u2019Donovan, D Lucey, R O\u2019Keeffe, E O\u2019Sullivan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Passage: C Finnegan; N O\u2019Connor, T Harrington, E Murphy; F Williams, D McCarthy, D Barrett; S Harrington, T O\u2019Neill; S Burke, J Kind, K Murphy; L Harrington, S Coughlan, K Burke.<\/p>\n
\n Sub: N White for L Harrington (45).<\/p>\n
\n Mayfield: E Cusack; C Moynihan, E O\u2019Sullivan, C O\u2019Mahony; D Clogan, MJ Coffey, A Walsh; S O\u2019Donovan, D Malone; C O\u2019Donovan, E Scanlan, R O\u2019Keffe; D Lucey, N Kelly, P Condon.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: J Courtney for Malone (39), T Horgan for Condon (45, inj), J Gibson for Scanlan (50, inj).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: Cormac Dineen (Douglas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passage 2-14 (2-2-10) Mayfield 1-13 (1-1-11) Passage got their AOS Security Seand\u00fan Junior A Football Championship campaign off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-567259","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\/567259","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=567259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}