Magnificent Mattimoe mauls Moynalvey

FEIS CUP

Both sides came into this Feis Cup clash with perfect records, but it was Gaeil Colmcille who emphatically maintained their winning start with a 1-18 to 0-9 victory over Moynalvey at Grangegodden.

Gaeil Colmcille started brightly, leading 0-4 to 0-1 after 11 minutes with all four of their scores coming from Seamus Mattimoe, while Moynalvey’s opening score came from a converted Shane Lenehan mark.

A second converted Moynalvey mark from Ciaran Harnan, followed by an Oisin Reilly point for Gaeil Colmcille left it 0-5 to 0-2 at the first water break.

Three Kells’ points in a row were answered by two David McLoughlin points in the 21st and 23rd minutes. Then came the game’s only goal in the 24th minute when Seamus Mattimoe was left with the simple task of palming over Moynalvey 'keeper Chris O’Malley making it 1-7 to 0-4.

Gaeil Colmcille added further points from Mattimoe (two) and James Reilly to lead by 1-10 to 0-4 at the break.

With a comfortable lead at the break last year’s SFC runners-up outscored Moynalvey 0-8 to 0-5 in the second half, as Mattimoe rounded off a personal tally of 1-11, while Moynalvey’s second half scores came from Adam Murphy (three), Lenehan and McLoughlin.

The teams will meet again later in the year in the SFC.

Gaeil Colmcille - Justin Carry-Lynch; Cormac Ferguson, Adam Donnelly, Ahmed Lawal; Danny Muldoon, James Reilly (0-2), Seanie Curran; Phil Ward, Conal Courtney; Seamus Mattimoe (1-11), Martin Barrett, Evan Sheridan (0-1); Oisin Reilly (0-2), Fionn Ferguson (0-1), Ryan Farnham (0-1). Subs - Paulie Tormay, Aaron Browne, Tony Smyth, Fionn Smyth, Alex Williams, Cormac Mattimoe.

Moynalvey - Chris O’Malley; Brian O’Reilly, Brian Harnan, Scott Tuite; Conor Shirren, Fearghal McCabe, Cathal McCabe; Donal Smith, Stephen Donoghue; Sean Duggan, Darren Brennan, Shane Lenehan (0-2); David McLoughlin (0-3), Adam Murphy (0-3), Ciaran Harnan (0-1). Subs - David Donoghue for Tuite, William Harnan for McLoughlin, Darragh Branigan for B Harnan, Eoin Corrigan for Smith, Shaun Deering for Lenehan.