Mungret St. Pauls 1-10 Patrickswell 2-17
In the City Junior A Hurling League our team made their way to the Semi Final in Clarina on Thursday 1 June were they met Patrickswell, Mungret St. Pauls did not get a good start and Patrickswell took advantage.
Patrickswell put over 3 points, one from a free, before Mungret St. Pauls marked the board from a sideline cut, caught and put straight over the bar. Patrickswell quickly replied and followed it up with 4 more points. Mungret St. Pauls were challenging the score but sent them wide. A free was where we found our second point of the game. A goal from Patrickswell hit Mungret St. Pauls hard and they started to pick up the game a bit too late before the half whistle. Going in at 0-5 to 1-9 with Patrickswell looking healthy.
After the half time words Mungret St. Pauls came out stronger and struck the sliotar into the Patrickswell goal but the scoring was slow in coming for both sides as pressure on Patrickswell sent a lot of their scoring chances wide but they did succeeded with 8 points before Mungret St. Pauls shot 4 points over the bar in a row, it never looked a close contest but Mungret St. Pauls never gave up especially in the dying moments of the game when Patrickswell got their second goal in, Mungret St. Pauls sent the ball up the far end but went wide for the last time in the game. They now put the A group behind taking from it the experience and concentrate on their next game.
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