Boherbue stun Adrigole with late goal to reach IAFC final
Neil O'Sullivan, Adrigole, getting his pass away from Gerry O'Sullivan, Boherbue during their McCarthy Insurance Group IAFC semi-final. Picture: Dan Linehan
It looked like one-way traffic for 50 minutes as Beara standard-bearers Adrigole led the way against Boherbue in the cauldron of Cill na Martra for this Intermediate A semi-final.
Before a goal in the last five minutes from veteran John Corkery paved the way for a remarkable piece of last-minute larceny.
The goal that ricocheted in off the bottom of the far upright was a salutary lesson for all those who head for their cars before the final whistle when the result seems a foregone conclusion. At that stage of proceedings, Adrigole were coasting, four points to the good.
That goal, which came during a rare foray forward for the Duhallow side, was the signal for a renewed assault on the Adrigole defence. This yielded two more scores, a free from David O'Connor, who had been difference between Boherbue's complete capitulation up to then, and a point, well into added time, from the boot of Liam Moynihan which edged their noses in front just as referee Niall Hayes of Carbery Rangers was preparing to sound the final whistle.
Adrigole had started well and had built a two-point lead in the opening minute, thanks to scores from Cian O'Shea and Ben O'Sullivan. In that opening period, Boherbue appeared sluggish.
Neil O'Sullivan was at the end of a good pass from Cian O'Shea to hit Adrigole's third point after nine minutes and Boherbue took three minutes to replay from Corkery's score off the mark in front of goals.
In the final six minutes of the half Adrigole stretched their lead with a trio of points from Gerard O'Shea, Darragh O'Sullivan and Neil O'Sullivan with a free in the 30th minute: 0-6 to 0-3.
The one-way traffic continued in the second half with Cian O'Shea resuming the scoring for Adrigole. It didn't take long for them to convert a three-point lead to double that, thanks to points from Seanie O'Sullivan, Ben O'Sullivan and Cian O'Shea. There had been two scores from Boherbue in response in quarter and Boherbue's mountain to climb began to appear insurmountable, 0-10 to 0-5.
Cian O'Shea scored again in the 49th minute for Adrigole, their final score. They will also rue seven wides in that half.
In that final 10-minute spell, the Boherbue attack was intense and incessant. David O'Connor scored two points from play in three minutes leaving just four points between the sides. Surely that would be enough. But it wasn't and John Corkery's 59th-minute goal gave Boherbue the fillip they needed to go the rest of the way and seal a deserved but unexpected victory.
D O'Connor 0-6 (0-3 f), J Corkery 1-1, L Moynihan, A O'Connor 0-1 each.
C O'Shea 0-4 (0-3 f), N O'Sullivan (0-1 f), B O'Sullivan 0-2 each, S O'Sullivan, D O'Sullivan, G O'Shea 0-1 each.
D Cremin; D Buckley, C O'Keeffe, J Daly; D Moynihan, M O'Connor, D O'Sullivan; P Daly, L Moynihan; Alan O'Connor, G O'Sullivan, B Murphy; D Sheehan, J Corkery, D O'Connor.
Andrew O'Connor for P Daly, M O'Gorman for D O'Sullivan, A Murphy for M O'Connor, D McCarthy for Alan O'Connor, C Ducey for D Sheehan.
W O'Sullivan; F Carey, L Harrington, S O'Shea; D O'Sullivan, Cathal O'Sullivan, S O'Sullivan; N O'Sullivan, D Collins; Cian O'Shea, Charlie O'Sullivan, C O'Neill; Connie O'Shea, B O'Sullivan, Cian O'Shea.
K Goggin for G O'Shea, David Harrington for D Collins, Diarmuid O'Sullivan for Darragh O'Sullivan.
Niall Hayes (Carbery Rangers).
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