Confey take advantage of lacklustre Carbury

Confey 2-12 Carbury 0-10 

CONFEY caused a mild surprise in the preliminary round of the Joe Mallon Motors Senior Football Championship as they ran out eight point winners over a rather lacklustre Carbury side. Carbury promised more after a bright opening quarter that had them in an early 0-4 to 0-1 lead.

Imrad Mirza opened the scoring for Confey inside two minutes but Carbury hit back with four in a row.Jack Cully hit three,two coming from frees and when Eoin Cully pointed on 13 minutes Carbury were full value for their early lead.Carbury would go the following 17 minutes without a score as Confey took over.

James Gately was to the fore in that Confey purple patch that yielded 1-6 without reply. Gately pointed on 14 and 22 before getting on the end of a loose ball just before half time shooting left footed past Declan Conroy.I n between Niall Kearney,Brian Grimes and two from Cathal Jennings left Confey 1-7 to 0-4 ahead as the sides went to the dressing rooms.

The second half started with Carbury on the front foot and when Paul Fleming fisted towards the Confey net Colin Heeney pushed it out for a 45.Carbury keeper Declan Conroy added the score.James Gately and Aidan Crean swapped points with Ciaran McKeon and Jp Gill and after Brian Milmoe added a fourth Carbury point of the half the gap was four with twenty to play.

When Carbury thought they had a lifeline Confey dealt them a sucker blow with their second goal.Conor Jennings got forward from half back to take a pass from brother Cathal to finish low to the Carbury net.Niall Kearney and James Gately pointed frees to extend the Confey advantage and despite a second Ciaran McKeon point from play and a third Jack Cully free the bird had flown The closing minutes were played out in a rather quiet and tame fashion more like a challenge game. Confey did suffer a late Conor Jennings black card but it mattered little as Confey lead 2-12 to 0-10 as Paddy McDermott brought proceedings to a close.

CARBURY: Declan Conroy 0-1 (1'45), Jimmy Dunne,Paul Fleming, Brian Milmoe 0-1, Ciaran M Keon 0-2,Willie Groome, Tommy Gill, Alan Kearney, David Kelly, Jack Smyth, JP Gill 0-1, Jack Cully 0-4 (3 frees), Eoin Cully 0-1, Oisin Milmoe, Brian O'Flaherty. Subs: Ben Kearney for Milmoe, 37; Stephen McKeon for Groome, 46; Justin Reilly for O'Flaherty, 58.

CONFEY: Colin Heeney, Andrew Breslin, Colm Chan, Ben Hourihane, Conor Jennings 1-0, Imad Mirza 0-1, Aidan Crean 0-1, Paul Divilly, Ciaran Lyons, Brian Grimes 0-1, Cathal Jennings 0-2, Robin Breslin, Niall Kearney 0-2 (1 free), James Gately 1-5 (2 frees), Kieran Kilbane. Subs: Oisin Lynch for Breslin, 47; Ian Devane for Kearney, 52; Neil Ryan for Gately, 59.

REFEREE: Paddy McDermott