Minor C footballers open championship with a win

Minor D Football Championship Ballyboden 5 – 11 Ballyfermot DLS 3 – 11

The Boden Minor C football team entertained Ballyfermot De La Salle in their first group game of this year’s championship on a beautiful Sunday morning in Ballycullen. The opening minutes were evenly contested with both teams getting to know one another. However, as the half wore on Boden started to get the upper hand and a super goal from Edward Clearly made the half time score Boden 1-6 Ballyfermot 0-6. The second half was only 4 minutes in when the Ballyfermot no.6 dislocated his finger. This led to a major delay as the referee (Jim Turner) went on a pilgrimage to pitch 1 in search of a para medic where he came across our own Ben Molloy. Ben applied his considerable skills and experience to the patient and put the finger back in place and the player resumed his position. Ben’s actions did us no favours as the opposition had no subs and would have had to continue with 14 men! When eventually the game did resume it was close once again. Approaching the final 8 minutes or so Ballyfermot went a point up, but Boden responded with a point to equalise and 2 late goals from Darragh O’Neill sealed it for Boden. The mentors would like to thank the U16B players who came out with us and made a considerable contribution to the victory.

Team: Eamon O’Dea, Tom White, Fiachra Madden, Edward Cleary, Micheal Manning, Adam Fisher, Senan Dwyer, Conor McGowan (1-2), Rian Power, Charlie Brady (0-3), Gavin O’Kelly (0-1), Edward Phelan (1-0), Darragh O’Neill (2-2), Liam McPhaidin (0-1), Senan Woods (1-1). Subs used: Daniel Lynch (0-1), Cian Costello and Michael Hanrahan.