Back to winning ways for our boys this week with a fine victory over a good Mastergeeha team. Michael Slattery, quiet enough on his previous outing, was back on fire. He was involved in 5 of the 6 goals scored while he was on the pitch, helping himself to two in the process. His performance, along with particularly eye catching outings from Adam Ward, Dan Goggins, Michael O’Gara and Sean Carmody meant that Park avoided a banana skin fixture following their disappointing exit from the National Cup a fortnight ago. Indeed it is difficult to find a Park player who didn’t bring his A game to this match on Saturday.
Four nil up at the break through goals from Slattery, Dylan Casey, Niall Sertutxa and Sean Carmody (pen), you could be forgiven for assuming it had been a stroll for the Park. You would be wrong though as Mastergeeha had made it a good, tough, competitive game with great effort and committed tackling. It was 2-0 until Park scored twice in the last 6 minutes of the half to put some daylight between the teams.
Sean Carmody belted a beauty past the Mastergeeha keeper eight minutes into the second half to put the Park five up. Dylan Casey could have had his second minutes later, the crossbar was in the way, before Michael Slattery got his second following a Carmody flick on from an O’Gara corner. When Thomas Burke replaced Slattery with 15 minutes he decided that he would help himself to a piece of the action. A fine run led to an unstoppable shot from 25 yards to round off the scoring and a 7-0 victory. Mastergeeha had the last shot of the day but were unable to breach the goal protected by Gearoid Fitzgerald, who had yet another fine outing between the sticks.
Overall a good performance from these boys but they can and must improve as they have big games ahead.
Thanks to our parents, family and friends who gave us great support on the day.
We’re looking forward to having Ruairi O’Kelly back in action soon after a period out through injury.
Training Tuesday night 7.40pm until 9pm.
Panel: Gearoid Fitzgerald, James Rusk, Matt Lukco, Dylan Casey, Adam Ward, Kevin Browne, Michael O’Gara, Sean Carmody, Thomas Burke, Jake Deering, Dan Goggin, Michael Slattery, Niall Sertutxa, Raul Vnczel, Alfie Christie, Jacub Zlotocki, Robin McCarthy and Ruairi O’Kelly.
Report by P.Carmody
