Away trip today to the Watershed in Kilkenny to face Freebooters in the 1st round of the SFAI Trophy.
We asked the lads to embrace the tie and deliver a big performance and they certainly produced the best performance in a long time with everyone delivering a hard shift against a quality team with the final score Freebooters 2-1 Mooncoin Celtic, Oisin scoring a well earned peno won by Sean.
Before the game we had a minute silence in honour of Vicky Phelan (Kelly) which we would like to thank Freebooters for agreeing to and joining us in, we also wore black armbands in honour of the Kelly & Phelan Families.
A minutes applause as a mark of respect this afternoon for Vicky Phelan preempted the u13 home match vs Ballyduff.
Mooncoin started quickly and were 1 nil up with a fine finish from Canice. Shortly afterwards a misplaced pass allowed Ballyduff to get a quick shot away for a fine equaliser that gave Bradley no chance.
The game settled down until just before half time when Cathal and Charlie scored deserved goals.
Ballyduff came out strong In the second half and Bradley produced a fab save to deny a certain goal.
With ten minutes to go 3 goals from Robbie, Canice (for his 2nd) and Tommy (lucky block down from a defensive clearance) led to a final score of 6-1.
Great effort from every one of the squad today and rewarding to see some of the training work put into action in the match.
Best of luck for the rest of the season to Ballyduff.
The match began with a minute’s applause to honour Vicky Phelan who sadly passed away this week.
Donncha wore the armband today and led by example with a dominant midfield performance. Mooncoin battled well in the first half without creating any notable chances. We were unlucky late in the half when an attempted clearance went straight into the goal.
Amends were made within a couple of minutes when Eoin’s shot from outside the area burst the back of the Kilmacthomas net, that’s 4 in 4 games for him.
1-1 at half time and fresh legs in the second half saw Mooncoin press forward with Shane’s shot being parried by their keeper to Billy on the left of the area who rifled home the winner.
Kilmacthomas had chances to equalise late on but two attempts went wide and one was bravely saved by TJ in the goal with his legs. Donncha was unlucky when his shot hit the crossbar near the end.
The victory belonged to Mooncoin however to remain top of the table with a 100% record.
Bohs came to Suir Crescent Sunday and a right battle took place. It was end to end from start to finish with Bohs marginally coming out on top.
A strike from the edge of the box crept in to give Bohs the lead mid way through the first half. A super strike from distance from Ellie Thompson levelled the score after the break.
A great run and clean strike late on sealed the points for Bohs. The result didn’t reflect the battle on the field when a draw may have been fairer.
A quick start saw the lads go one up early on through a tidy Jamie Moore finish from just outside the box after good work by Sean Grace and Kieran Fagan.
With the midfield three of Adam Cunningham, Kevin Conneely and Joey O’Hanlon on top, the pressure was telling with a few corners nearly resulting in a second before Kevin Law nodded home one of Adam Cunningham’s inswingers on 35 minutes to put a little bit of daylight between the two teams.
The second half saw Piltown get back in to the game on the hour mark but that was as good as it got with Kieran Fagan heading home our third from a Sean Grace corner.
This mornings road trip took our u17 Girls team in Rainy cappaquinn .
We didn’t create too many chances in the first half , but our solid defence of Sophie Scahill , Ciara O Keeffe and Eimear Quinn made sure that Cappaquinn didn’t create anything at the other end either .
The introduction of Ella Brennan on the 25 minute mark turned the game on its head and changed the dynamic of the Mooncoin play .
Some stern words and straight talking at half time took immediate effect , a Sarah Walsh through ball after less than a minute in the second half was run onto by Emily Blackmore who steadied herself before shooting home .
Within two minutes the same duo struck again when Emily Lined up for Sarah , who finished to the net …..
Sommer Grant saw two chances go marginally wide as the Mooncoin girls begin to dominate the mid field .
On the 55 minute Mark Mooncoin struck again when a well worked Ella Brennan cross from the corner of the pitch was taken down by Emily who side stepped a defender before shooting to the top right corner .
The fourth of the day came after Ella Brennan found herself on the receiving end of a pass front of goal and she made no mistake in slotting the ball to the back of the net .
Todays game was our third win from three in this league .
Our next fixture is a Munster Cup game in two weeks.
The u17 Munster Cup took Mooncoin all the way to the Rebel county where we took on Wilton FC .
The weather was unpredictable today, but the same could not be said of the Mooncoin Outfit . We pressed from the very beginning and applied pressure all over the field .
On the 15 minute mark we had a stonewall penalty denied after Emily Blackmore was taken down inside the box .. we didn’t need to wait too long to rectify the situation as On the 18 minute mark Molly Long played a beautiful though ball to Emily who went one on one with the Wilton keeper before confidently slotting home ….. within 5 minutes we had hit the net again , when Sommer Grant played a pin point pass to Emily’s feet on the wing , who then passed the defence with some fancy footwork and squared the pass across to Ella Brennan who blasted the ball into the bottom right corner of the net.
Sophie Scahill Niamh Reddy Eimear Quinn and Luiseach O Donohue were rock solid in the defence with Alanah Tobin giving a fine display in goal quenching any hope of a Wilton Goal .
We added a third on the 33 minute mark when Sommer Grant crossed a corner kick that looked to cross the line , but just incase , Sarah Walsh made sure that the ball ended up in the net .
The second half was a livelier affair with both teams going toe to toe with nothing between them . The Game finished with the Visitors 3 goals to the Good and a progression to the next stage .
A special thanks to Rene and Seamus Comerford who subsidised the Bus fare for todays trip .
A wet and windy evening awaited us on our trip to Evergreens Fantastic Facilities in Kilkenny for an u16 SFAI girls game .
It was the girls first game on Astro under light .
We started the game with gusto and made our intentions known from the beginning . Making some very good attacks from the first kick .
Evergreen Were just as eager and made their presence known , with Goal keeper Emily Blackmore called into action on a number of occasions
We drew first blood on the 15 minute mark when Molly Murphy cleared a ball that Sophie Scahill connected with , sending it in over the top where Aoibhe Rees had a shot in goal that was saved and sent to the left wing where an eager Ella Brennan wasted no time in slotting today the net .
Evergreen Equalised within a few minutes and added a second one on the 32 minute mark . We Clawed it back to level in the second half where some got team work between Aoibhe and Ella , resulted in Rees slitting to the net … we held our own for long periods of time , and Molly Murphy , Niamh Did very well in our defence . Saoirse Corcoran put in a fin effort before having to leave the pitch due to an injury .
In the final 15 , Evergreen Pulled away , leaving the final Score at 5-2
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