Killeagh 5-25\u00a0<\/p>\n
St Ita’s 2-17\u00a0<\/p>\n
Killeagh detonated their East Cork Oil JAHC campaign with a five-goal rampage, blitzing St Ita\u2019s 5-25 to 2-17 on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They roared out of the traps, ripping their Pilmore rivals to shreds in a savage, scoreboard-shredding statement of intent.<\/p>\n
At half-time they clung to a slender four-point lead, but after the restart they went nuclear, outgunning Ita\u2019s 5-12 to 1-6.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On a day drenched in individual brilliance, Seamus Harnedy was a one-man firestorm for the losers with 1-14, and also carved open the Killeagh defence to set up 1-1.<\/p>\n
Killeagh\u2019s David Buckley was simply unplayable, a ghost in the full-forward line who torched the net for 3-2, all from play. Ben Geary was electric too, chipping in with a dazzling 2-7.<\/p>\n
The tone was set inside 30 seconds. Geary fizzed over the opening white flag. Ita\u2019s answered immediately, Harnedy landing two quick-fire points and Andrew Leahy leveling. It became a shootout, blow for blow, with Harnedy nudging his side ahead again.<\/p>\n
Then came the first explosion. Geary embarked on a mazy solo, carved through traffic and buried the green flag. Harnedy, ice in his veins, replied and then threaded Hickey for the equalizer. 0-6 to 1-3 after 11 minutes and the game was already crackling.<\/p>\n
For the next five minutes it was point for point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then Buckley struck. Played clean through, he showed ice-cold composure to bury Killeagh\u2019s second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ita\u2019s didn\u2019t flinch. Harnedy orchestrated, picking out Hickey who smashed home, before adding another point himself.<\/p>\n
The closing stages of the half belonged to Killeagh. They edged it 0-6 to 0-2 to take a 2-12 to 1-11 lead into the sheds, but this was far from over.<\/p>\n
Two minutes into the second half Harnedy pounced on a loose ball and drilled it over to cut the gap to three.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Buckley answered with menace. A defensive slip and he was gone, ghosting in for his second goal. Harnedy hit back again, refusing to let Ita\u2019s die.<\/p>\n
Then Killeagh ignited. 1-3 without reply blew the game open. Leahy, Geary with 1-1, and Andrew Brenner all found the target and suddenly it was 4-15 to 1-13 with 20 to go.<\/p>\n
Harnedy tried to stem the tide with a free, but Killeagh responded with three unanswered points, stretching their lead until it screamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Harnedy produced one last flash of genius, 1-2 in a blur, the goal a solo storm where he plucked the puckout and scorched through for a rocket to the net.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t enough. Killeagh finished with cruel efficiency, 1-6 to 0-1 in the final ten minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Buckley completed his hat-trick, Geary added gloss, and the Killeagh boys marched off with a statement win.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Killeagh: B Geary 2-7(0-4f) D Buckley 3-2, A Leahy 0-5, S Walsh 0-4, R Long, C Leahy, C Deane 0-2 each, A Brenner 0-1.<\/p>\n
St Ita’s: S Harnedy 1-14 (0-7f) (0-1 65), D Hickey 1-2, C Deane 0-1.<\/p>\n
Killeagh: P O’Neill; R Treacy, C O’Riordan, C Leahy; G Wallace, A Leahy, M Murphy; A Brenner, C Deane; J Ogbebor, R Long, S Walsh; D Buckley, C Leahy, B Geary.<\/p>\n
Subs: D Hogan for G Wallace (blood sub) C Brennan for B Geary, D Hogan for M Murphy (inj), O Cunnighem for J Ogbebor.<\/p>\n
St Ita’s: P O’Brien; M Doherty, B McCarthy, G Griffin; M Lillis, H Cannon, C O’Brien; J McCarthy, M Coleman; S Harnedy, D Hickey, D O’Brien; C Deane, G Coleman, D Collins.<\/p>\n
Subs: Ed Coleman for D Hickey, B Bulman for G Griffin.<\/p>\n
Referee: (Cathal Mc Allister Aghada) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Killeagh 5-25\u00a0 St Ita’s 2-17\u00a0 Killeagh detonated their East Cork Oil JAHC campaign with a five-goal rampage, blitzing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-581307","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\/581307","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=581307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}