10^th April 2010 – Senior Hurling League

Naomh Olaf 1 - 13            Naomh Fionnbarra 1 – 15

The first evening match of 2010 was played in near perfect conditions at Wedgewood on Saturday.  Naomh Fionnbarra opened the scoring with a fine point from play and both Robert Quinn and Declan O’Dwyer responded immediately with Donal MacMathuna making it 0 – 3 to 0 – 1 with a point from a free.   Naomh Fionnbarra pointed again and in a nice passage of play Olaf’s added three more points from Robert Quinn, Marty Devlin and another free from Donal MacMathuna to lead 0 – 6 to 0 – 2.  Naomh Fionnbarra converted a free and added two points from play before Donal Mac Mathuna scored another free and Kevin Keane added a point from play.  Naomh Fionnbarra scored their third free plus a point from play before Donal MacMathuna finished the first half with another free to leave Naomh Olaf ahead by 0 – 9 to 0 – 7.

At the start of the second half Naomh Olaf opened a wider gap between the teams with a free from Donal MacMathuna and a well worked goal sent to the net by Declan O’Dwyer before Naomh Fionnbarra pulled back two points in a row.  Donal MacMathuna pointed another free but Naomh Fionnbarra then dominated for a period adding two points from play and a free to cut Naomh Olaf’s lead to two points. Donal MacMathuna stretched the lead to three points with another free but Naomh Fionnbarra responded immediately with a point from play.  Declan O’Dwyer scored what was to be Olaf’s last score of the game  - a nice point -  but unfortunately Naomh Fionnbarra finished the stronger with an  unanswered goal and two points to run out winners at 1 – 15 to 1 – 13.

Naomh Olaf: S O’Connor, D Egan, P Roe, J Carroll, F Mairtin, N McCaffrey, E Kinsella, M Devlin 0 – 1, Robert Quinn O – 2, S Hickey, D MacMathuna 0 – 7f, D O’Dwyer 1 – 2, C Kyne Delaney, K Keane 0 – 1, J McGrath