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Glen Rovers’ James O\u2019Mahony bursts through the Midleton defence. Picture: Noel Sweeney<\/p>\nMidleton: 0-17\u00a0<\/p>\n
Glen Rovers: 0-15\u00a0<\/p>\n
Midleton produced a strong second-half performance to overcome the challenge of Glen Rovers in a scrappy Cork ETB Rebel \u00d3g Premier 1 MHC semi-final at Church Road on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
The Imokilly side recovered from a two-point deficit at the interval to reach the decider for the second-year running, having lost to Sarsfields last year.<\/p>\n
The Magpies were spearheaded by the red-hot Liam Walsh, who finished with 0-12 for the winners. It was his last two scores that got his team over the line, with extra time looking a strong possibility late on.<\/p>\n
Midleton did the heavy lifting in the opening 30 minutes. Playing against a strong wind, they stayed within striking distance of their opponents, but it took a bit of quality at the end to prevail.<\/p>\n
Scott Dunlea\u2019s introduction helped Midleton in defence, while centre-back Max Murphy marshalled Michael Tadhg Brosnan brilliantly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Midleton defence played a key part in a game that wasn\u2019t filled with quality, with frees and a stop-start nature dominating the hour.<\/p>\n
It was tit-for-tat early on, with the sides level at 0-3 each after 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Glen Rovers’ James O\u2019Mahony bursts through the Midleton defence. Picture: Noel Sweeney<\/p>\n
Walsh\u2019s accuracy from frees was proving vital for Midleton given they were against the wind.<\/p>\n
Michael Forde and then a pair of Gavin O\u2019Callaghan frees pushed Glen Rovers three clear, but two Walsh placed balls cut the gap to the minimum.<\/p>\n
It remained a ding-dong battle, with Josh Brosnan helping the Glen gain a foothold in midfield as they led 0-9 to 0-6 after 24 minutes.<\/p>\n
Shane O\u2019Mahony and Ciar\u00e1n Kelly pointed for the Magpies, but two quick-fire O\u2019Callaghan white flags, one from a free, gave Glen Rovers a deserved three-point buffer.<\/p>\n
But Midleton finished the half better. Senan Carroll was unlucky not to score a goal as his effort was saved by Glen goalkeeper Shane McCarthy, but O\u2019Mahony got his second point as Midleton trailed 0-11 to 0-9 at half-time.<\/p>\n
The Imokilly side were wind-assisted for the new half as the sides traded points. The stop-start nature of a game dominated by frees, with no real flow to the contest, continued as neither side was able to dominate for any lengthy period.<\/p>\n
Glen Rovers led 0-14 to 0-12 after 48 minutes. Wides and overplaying the ball were hindering Midleton, but two Walsh frees tied matters.<\/p>\n
Walsh then nudged his side in front with yet another placed ball, but a cracking point from James Murray, over the shoulder, levelled things again.<\/p>\n
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Glen Rovers’ Conor Burke challenges Midleton’s Charlie McCarthy for the ball. Picture: Noel Sweeney<\/p>\n
It looked like extra time was going to be required with the sides level going into injury time, but Midleton found the scores to get over the line.<\/p>\n
Walsh converted a 65 and, despite the Glen having a couple of chances to draw level, it was the top scorer who got the last score of the game with a free from long range.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Midleton: L Walsh 0-12 (0-11 f, 0-1 65), S O\u2019Mahony 0-2, A Molumby, A Hennessy, C Kelly 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Glen Rovers: G O\u2019Callaghan 0-10 (0-7 f), M Forde 0-2, R Crean, J Murray, E McGuckin 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
MIDLETON: W Stokes; R McCormack, B Dunlea, J Morley; P Egan, M Murphy, F Cahill; A Molumby, A Hennessy; S Carroll, C Kelly, L Walsh; C McCarthy, S O\u2019Mahony, J O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n
Subs: C O\u2019Brien for J O\u2019Sullivan (12, inj), S Dunlea for J Morley (46), J Cahill for C Kelly (51).<\/p>\n
GLEN ROVERS: S McCarthy; C Singleton, C Burke, K Foley; R O\u2019Callaghan, C Cunningham, L Woods; J Brosnan, R Crean; G O\u2019Callaghan, MT Brosnan, E McGuckin; J Murray, J O\u2019Mahony, M Forde.<\/p>\n
Subs: C Turnbull for J O\u2019Mahony (44).<\/p>\n
Referee: Patrick O\u2019Mahony (Kilbrittain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midleton: 0-17\u00a0 Glen Rovers: 0-15\u00a0 Midleton produced a strong second-half performance to overcome the challenge of Glen Rovers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-612940","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\/612940","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=612940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}