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Alex Collins hit 3-6 for Bishopstown. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n\n Bishopstown 5-8 (5-2-4) Carrigaline 1-21 (1-3-15)\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Inspired by Cork minor star Eoghan Ahern and Ben Corkery Delaney, Carrigaline edged out Bishopstown in a thrilling Cork ETB Premier 1 MFC clash at Bishopstown on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In a game that went right to the wire, a late Bishopstown goal from Alex Collins that brought his tally to 3-6 saw the hosts fall just short after a competitive hour of free-flowing football.<\/p>\n
Carrigaline, who beat Ballincollig in their opener, were quickest from the blocks with a super Cillian Murphy two-pointer. Then Ben Corkery Delaney nailed a two-pointer from a free.<\/p>\n
The Town, who lost to Nemo the last day, were under serious pressure with careless turnovers. A Corkery-Delaney white flag pushed the gap to five points in the seventh minute.<\/p>\n
Carrigaline were brave outside the arc and added a third two-pointer with another stunning Murphy long-ranger.<\/p>\n
Credit to Bishopstown, they responded in style and in the space of three minutes, came from seven points down to level the game.<\/p>\n
A Conal McBride point was followed by full-forward Callan Clarke finished a good attack when blasting the ball to the back of the net. A minute later, Alex Collins punished poor Carrigaline defending with a classy goal.<\/p>\n
Carrigaline went from being the dominant force to a team badly in need of inspiration and consecutive Bishopstown points from Andy Cuthbert and Collins gave them a 2-3 to 0-7 lead in the 20th minute.<\/p>\n
Carrigaline\u2019s 12-minute drought ended when Corkery-Delaney slotted over from a placed ball. That score settled the visitors and Eoghan Ahern levelled with a neat score as we approached the break.<\/p>\n
Bishopstown were now on the back foot and a Luke Jordan point edged them ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carrigaline went in at half-time commanding a 0-10 to 2-3 lead after a highly entertaining 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
On the restart, a Murphy point edged Carrigaline further ahead, but they were stunned into submission in the 33rd minute with a second Clarke goal that was followed by a Collins’ two-pointer.<\/p>\n
The visitors were now trailing by three points but responded with four unanswered points to edge ahead by the minimum midway through the quarter.<\/p>\n
A goal three minutes later from Ahern and suddenly it was a five-point game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite a courageous finish that included a brace of Collins goals, Carrigaline held firm to secure the points.<\/p>\n
Alex Collins hit 3-6 for Bishopstown. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n
They face Nemo in their last group game, where a victory will see them seal top spot. Bishopstown will need to beat Ballincollig and hope Carrigaline win to force a three-way tie for the second semi-final place.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Bishopstown: A Collins 3-6 (2 2ptf, 0-2 f), C Clarke 2-0, C McBride, A Cuthbert 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Carrigaline: E Ahern 1-6, C Murphy 0-6 (2 2pt), B Corkery Delaney 0-5 (1 2pt), L Jordan, J O\u2019Grady, M Kiernan, S Collins 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n BISHOPSTOWN: D Wiseman; C Reed, J Burke, A O\u2019Callaghan; S Young, B Moloney, J O\u2019Callaghan; S Herrick, J O\u2019Callaghan; R Lenihan, A Cuthbert, A Collins, S Herrick; C McBride, B Hayes.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C O\u2019Grady for R Lenihan (h-t), R Twomey for S Herrick (43).<\/p>\n
\n CARRIGALINE: T McSorley; C Moloney, J Scannell, J Bryan; D O Riordain, D Scannell-Murphy, O Lynch; S Collins, M Kiernan; E Ahern, B Corkery-Delaney, C Murphy; L Jordan, J O\u2019Grady, C Murphy.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: E Bowens for C Murphy (47), R Murphy for J O\u2019Grady (52).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: Shane Scanlon (Newcestown).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bishopstown 5-8 (5-2-4) Carrigaline 1-21 (1-3-15)\u00a0 Inspired by Cork minor star Eoghan Ahern and Ben Corkery Delaney, Carrigaline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4365,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-574756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574756","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=574756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}