23/10/05 - Division 1A
Behy Rovers (4) V AC Athletic (4)
Team: S McKenna
D Moriarty
C Griffins Red Card
B Ahern
C Sullivan
J O'Sullivan
C Teahan
L O'Shea Red Card
J Falvey
E Courtney
Subs:
Team: Cyril Dineen
John Fitzgerald
Mark Walshe
Conor Harty
Mark Dillane
Kieran Young
Eamon Fitzgerald Yellow Card
Barry Walshe Yellow Card
Shane Harty
John Mike Dooley Yellow Card
David Leahy
Subs: Stephen Goggin for Shane Harty
Conor Diggins for David Leahy
John Madden for Kieran Young
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BEHY ROVERS SEEM TO HAVE TURNED THE CORNER AND WERE A SHADE UNLUCKY NOT TO BEAT AC AT ROSSBEIGH ON SUNDAY LAST IN THIS EIGHT GOAL THRILLER.JOHN M FALVEY TOOK THE SCORING HONOURS AS HE SCORED THREE FOR THE GLENBEIGH SIDE BUT AC FOUGHT BACK WELL AND GOT THE BREAKS ON THE DAY.

AC TOOK THE LEAD EARLY ON AGAINST THE RUN OF PLAY WHEN GOOD WORK FROM EAMON FITZGERALD AND BARRY WALSHE SAW DAVID LEAHY SCORE.

JOHN FALVEY THEN EQUALISED FOR BEHY IN THE 15TH MINUTE FROM THE PENALTY SPOT BUT TWO MINUTES LATER AC WERE BACK IN FRONT WHEN EAMON FITZGERALD SCORED WITH A RARE HEADER FOLLOWING A CORNER.HOWEVER 10 MINUTES LATER IT WAS THAT MAN FALVEY AGAIN WHO GOT THROUGH FOR BEHY AS AC WERE GUILTY OF POOR DEFENDING.

THEN IN THE 32ND MINUTE IT WAS AC WHO WERE AWARDED A PENALTY AND WHO ELSE BUT JOHN MIKE DOOLEY TO MAKE NO MISTAKE AND GIVE AC A 3-2 HALFTIME LEAD WHICH APPEARED HARSH ON THE HOME SIDE.

THER WAS MORE DRAMA TO FOLLOW IN THE SECOND HALF AND JOHN FALVEY COMPLETED HIS HAT-TRICK IN THE 52ND MINUTE AS THE GAME BECAME VERY COMPETITIVE.ON THE HOUR BEHY SUFFERED A MAJOR BLOW WHEN CIAN GRIFFIN WAS SENT OFF AND ALSO AC WERE AWARDED A PENALTY.HOWEVER HOMER NODDED AND JOHN MIKE DOOLEY MISSED FROM THE SPOT.

HOWEVER DOOLEY MADE AMENDS IN THE 63RD MINUTE WHEN HE ROUNDED KEEPER O’SULLIVAN THREE MINUTES LATER TO PLANT THE BALL IN THE NET AND AC ATHLETIC LED 4-3.

THE FRUSRATION SEEMED TO BE GETTING TO THE GLENBEIGH LADS AS THEY WERE REDUCED TO NINE MEN WHEN LIAM O’SHEA DISPUTED THE PENALTY AWARD AND HE WAS RED CARDED.SO BEHY HAD TO PLAT OVER TWENTY FIVE MINUTES WITH NINE MEN SO IT WAS SOME EFFORT TO GET BACK AND GET AN EQUALISER IN THE 90TH MINUTE FROM KIERAN TEAHAN AND JUSTICE WAS PROBABLY DONE.

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