Nemo move away from bottom of table with second league win
Nemo Rangers Tim O’Brien moves the ball out of defence during their McCarthy Insurance Division One football league clash with Éire Óg at Trabeg. Picture: Noel Sweeney
Nemo Rangers picked up a much-needed win as they got the better of Éire Óg in their McCarthy Insurance Division One football league clash at Trabeg on Wednesday night.
The win sees Nemo move ahead of Éire Óg at the bottom of the table.
Coming into this game, Nemo had only one win, but on the night, they were deserving winners overall, despite the best efforts of Éire Óg.
At half time the sides were level, and Nemo would have been the happier of the two, having played against a strong wind for the first 30 minutes.
Ross Corkery had opened the scoring for them before Brian Thompson and Jack Murphy replied to put the visitors in front.
But Nemo then took over and hit six points without reply.
Corkery got their second with Conor Horgan adding their third, to see them lead 0-3 to 0-2 with eight minutes gone.
Dara O’Sullivan added another, and Corkery got his third to stretch their lead further.
By the time 13 minutes were played, they were 0-7 to 0-2 in front, with Horgan and O’Sullivan on target again.
But credit to Éire Óg, they hit back with Jerome Kelleher landing a two-pointer to reduce the gap.
Horgan, Tim O’Brien, and Corkery responded for Nemo, to make it 0-10 to 0-4.
Again, Éire Óg upped their game and finished the half strongly to draw level.
Two apiece from Murphy and Thompson made it 0-10 to 0-8, before Oisin O’Shea landed their second two-pointer to see the sides level at half-time.
Early points from Jack O’Brien and O’Sullivan extended Nemo’s lead, before Kelleher and Colm Clifford replied for the visitors.
With 44 minutes gone, Nemo were in front by 0-16 to 0-12, before Shane Burke scored their goal to put them well in control.
O’Sullivan added a point, but again Éire Óg hit back, with Sean Hurley setting up Kelleher for their goal, to make it 1-17 to 1-12.
Hurley added a point and hit another from a free to close the gap.
Nemo responded through Stephen Cronin and Eoin Nation to seal the win to move out of the bottom two of the table.
S Burke 1-0, R Corkery 0-6 (1 2pt), C Horgan 0-4, D O’Sullivan 0-5 (1 2pt), T O’Brien, J O’Brien, S Cronin, E Nation 0-1 each.
J Kelleher 1-3 (1 2pt), B Thompson, J Murphy, S Hurley 0-3 (1f) each, O O’Shea 0-2 (1 2pt), C Clifford 0-1.
F Dietze; C Moore, M Hill, E Nation; L Horgan, S Cronin, T O’Brien; A O’Donovan, E Kelly; C Horgan, R Dalton, J O’Brien; R Corkery, C Kiely, D O’Sullivan.
Subs: S Burke for C Kiely (42), N O’Shea for L Horgan (59).
E Kelleher; C Murphy, M Corkery, D McCarthy; C Clifford, C McGoldrick, B Thompson; M Griffin, O O'Shea; J Murphy, C Kirwan, J Kelleher; D Foley, S Hurley, D Healy.
Subs: K Beechinor for D Healy (ht), D Kelly for C Kirwan (45), O McLaughlin for C Murphy, C Quigley for D Foley (both 48), D Dineen for D McCarthy (52), D Kirwan for J Murphy (57), A McCarthy for O O’Shea (59).
: Alan O’Connor, Ballygarvan.
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