\n Carrigtwohill 2-24\u00a0Na Piarsaigh 3-21 (Carrigtwohill won 3-2 on penalties)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carrigtwohill earned their luck as they edged Na Piarsaigh on penalties in Friday night\u2019s Co-op SuperStores SAHC quarter-final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Rinn on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Having battled back in normal time and extra time, Carrig took an early 2-0 lead in the penalty shootout as goalkeeper Shane Devlin scored one and saved one, but Na Piarsaigh were level after Eoin Sheehan \u2013 who replaced injured goalkeeper Luke Donovan \u2013 made a superb save.<\/p>\n
However, Justin Oke, who was unable to start for Carrig but was hugely influential after coming on, made it 3-2, P\u00e1draig Guest was unable to find the target for Piarsaigh.<\/p>\n
A semi-final with Blarney will represent a test for Carrigtwohill, but they will draw on reserves of character shown here.<\/p>\n
In extra time, a fine goal from sub Gunning \u2013 coming not long after they had falled behind for the first time all night \u2013 had looked to be decisive, but Carrigtwohill battled back well, with points from influential sub Justin Oke, James Mulcahy and a huge free from his own 45 by Matthew Barrett resulting in the shootout.<\/p>\n
That response mirrored what they had done earlier. Down by four at half-time, Carrigtwohill had introduced Oke, who was not fit enough to start, and Tom\u00e1s Hogan and the deficit was slightly reduced as they had the better of the early exchanges and Na Piarsaigh continued to be guilty of wasting scoreable chances.<\/p>\n
After another of those wides, Carrig goalkeeper Shane Devlin found Jay Horgan, who pointed to leave it 1-11 to 0-11, but from the Na Piarsaigh puckout, Luke Donovan went long and Moynihan did brilliantly to use his strength to claim possession and then unleash a piledriver to the net for his second goal and a a six-point advantage.<\/p>\n
In their last group game, Carrigtwohill had enjoyed a good lead against Ballinhassig with 20 minutes to go only to finish level; here, they set about making inroads into a similar deficit. Barrett provided inspiration with a jinking run from deep to give himself sight of goal \u2013 while his shot was straight at Donovan, sub Daniel Nolan was able to divert the loose ball home, Eddie Gunning unlucky not to keep the shot out.<\/p>\n
The margin was down to two with Barrett\u2019s fourth point of the evening but Na Piarsaigh kept their calm and captain P\u00e1draig Guest, Daire Connery and Ross O\u2019Sullivan (free) pushed them five clear with 12 left.<\/p>\n
Now it was Carrig\u2019s turn to fall in the marksmanship stakes and they had gone 12 minutes without a score before Patrick Walsh pointed \u2013 as is the way, that was followed by scores from Oke and Cian O\u2019Riordan.<\/p>\n
Na Piarsaigh replacement Owen Galvin made it a three-point game in injury time but that was wiped out at the death as Devlin\u2019s free from deep led to a scramble, with Murnane bundling the ball to the net to force the additional period.<\/p>\n
In the first half of normal time, the city side had settled better, with Daniel Scanlon operating as a third midfielder while Cian Buckley was strong in defence as they moved 0-7 to 0-3 ahead, albeit without full shooting efficiency.<\/p>\n
That cost them as Carrig found some rhythm and it was 0-8 each as half-time approached before Guest\u2019s industry led to a chance for Moynihan, who got his shot away as goalkeeper Shane Devlin and centre-back Se\u00e1n de B\u00farca sought to make saving blocks.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Cian Horgan battled hard to get a point to put them four ahead as they retired at half-time \u2013 but plenty more drama was to come.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Carrigtwohill: J Mulcahy (0-4 f), M Barrett (0-3 f) 0-5 each, P Walsh 0-4, J Oke 0-3, D Murnane 1-1, D Nolan 1-0, C O\u2019Riordan, J Horgan 0-2 each, P Hogan, T Hogan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Na Piarsaigh: K Moynihan 2-0, R O\u2019Sullivan 0-5 (0-3 f), D Connery (0-2 f), P Guest (0-1 f) 0-4 each, D Gunning 1-0, L Sheehan, O Galvin 0-2 each, P Murphy, D Scanlon, P O\u2019Rourke, C Hogan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n CARRIGTWOHILL: S Devlin; B Twomey, S de B\u00farca, P O\u2019Sullivan; D Murnane, A Walsh Barry, P Hogan; S Brennan, J Horgan; P Walsh, M Barrett, C O\u2019Riordan; S Rohan, L O\u2019Sullivan, J Mulcahy.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: D Nolan for O\u2019Sullivan (17, injured), T Hogan for Rohan, J Oke for P Hogan (both half-time), P Hogan for Murnane, M O\u2019Connor for Walsh (both 79).<\/p>\n
\n NA PIARSAIGH: L Donovan; A Higgins, E Gunning, C Buckley; C Meaney, G Healy, K Buckley; D Connery, C Hogan; L Sheehan, P O\u2019Rourke, P Guest; D Scanlon, K Moynihan, R O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: P Murphy for Hogan (53), O Galvin for O\u2019Sullivan (57), C Hanifin for Moynihan (60+3), D Gunning for Sheehan (64), K Sheehan for Higgins, Moynihan for O\u2019Rourke (both 74).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: S Stokes (Tullylease).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrigtwohill 2-24\u00a0Na Piarsaigh 3-21 (Carrigtwohill won 3-2 on penalties)\u00a0 Carrigtwohill earned their luck as they edged Na Piarsaigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15389,1965,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-629248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-county-championship","tag-hurling","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629248","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=629248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}