Division 1 HL: Jay Horgan's 65th minute magic wins it as Carrigtwohill edge Charleville
Carrigtwohill's Patrick Walsh is tackled by Charleville's Zach Biggane, during their Senior Hurling League clash at Carrigtwohill. Picture: David Keane.
A dramatic 65th minute winner from Carrigtwohill centre-back Jay Horgan meant Charleville fell to their first RedFM Division 1 Hurling League defeat of the season in Carrigtwohill on Sunday morning.
Horgan’s winning point followed a glaring miss from a close range free for Charleville, with Alan Dennehy hitting it wide in the 64th minute.
Carrigtwohill were fortunate that Dennehy’s strike was off target, after frees from Andrew Cagney and Dennehy had drawn Charleville level in added time.
Having led by two heading into injury time, the concession of needless frees almost cost Carrig the points – but Horgan’s heroics saved the hosts at the death.
Despite conceding two goals, Carrigtwohill had continued to keep the scoreboard ticking over and managed to draw level at the break, having been behind by four seven minutes from the interval.
Following Dan Casey’s goal for the north Cork outfit in the 23rd minute, Carrig fired off five in a row. Sean Walsh pulled up with three including one free, while ‘keeper Shane Devlin also got one from a placed ball following James Mulcahy’s point.
The visitors hit the last two scores of the half through Gareth Gleeson and midfielder Sean Bresnan, leaving it 0-12 to 2-6 at the break.
Gleeson only picked up the one white flag but won three frees for the visitors as the hosts continued to lack discipline. Charleville let this one get away from them, especially after bagging two majors in the opening period as Carrig finished the game with 10 wides.
They were without star forward Jack Doyle for most of the game, as he departed after eight minutes with a hamstring injury. They did however have the services of Cork U20 Zach Biggane, who played an instrumental role in the second major.
His Cork teammate Matthew Barrett played the first half and got one score for Carrig at wing-back.
Two minutes after Doyle’s withdrawal Charleville got their first goal, Doyle’s replacement Dan Casey putting Devlin under pressure and forcing Carrig into a turnover right in front of their own goal.
His pulled pass fell perfectly for O’Riordan, who struck it into the open net, 1-2 to 0-3 after 10 minutes.
O’Riordan added two frees for the hosts while points from Patrick Walsh and Barrett kept Carrig in touch. Patrick’s brother Sean added his second of 10 points from a free in the 21st minute, before a pinged puckout from Cian Collins found Biggane unmarked outside the 45.
He made a brilliant run in, evading three Carrig challenges before getting the ball to Casey. He was never going to miss the close range chance.
At that point Charleville were four ahead and they continued to run the show in the middle with defender Jake Madigan impressing at the back, but their failure to punish Carrig’s ill-discipline would come back to bite them in the latter period.
With Carrig ahead by one in the 56th minute, another chance went to waste as Oran O’Connell’s strike was well stopped by Devlin, though the hosts would still have to turn it around late on.
S Walsh 0-10 (6 fs), P Walsh 0-3, J Mulcahy 0-2, M Barrett, S Devlin (f), C O’Riordan, L O’Sullivan, J Horgan 0-1 each.
D O’Riordan 1-5 (0-5 fs), D Casey 1-0, S Bresnan, J Doyle (2fs), A Cagney (1f) 0-2 each, A Dennehy (f), G Gleeson 0-1 each.
S Devlin; B Twomey, A Walsh Barry, P O’Sullivan; A Rooney, J Horgan, M Barrett; S Brennan, J Oke; P Walsh, S Walsh, C O’Riordan; J Mulcahy, L O’Sullivan, L Gosnell.
S De Búrca for Barrett (HT), T Hogan for Gosnell (45), D Nolan for O’Sullivan (55).
C Collins; M O’Flynn, J Meade, J Madigan; A Dennehy, J Buckley, K Cagney; S Bresnan, R Carroll; Z Biggane, C Buckley, J Doyle; G Gleeson, A Cagney, D O’Riordan.
D Casey for Doyle (8 inj), O O’Connell for Gleeson, G Kelleher for O’Riordan (both 46), B O’Connell for K Cagney (53).
Niall Fahy (Brian Dillons)
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