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Abbey Fanning Memorial Tournament.
Sponsored by the Squealing Pig Bar and Restaurant
Donaghmoyne claimed their seventh Abbey Fanning Cup title with an emphatic 7-12 to 0-2 win over Scotstown at Monaghan Harps Ground on Saturday. In the Shield final Knockbride from Cavan beat Magheracloone 5-9 to 1-13.
Abbey was surely looking down from heaven as the promised rain never materialised
and the 13 sides, who signed up at 9-30am, served up some wonderful football throughout
the day.
After the round robin stages and quarter finals the last four standing in
the cup competition were Donaghmoyne, Clontarf, Monaghan Harps and Scotstown. In
the first semi Donaghmoyne seen of the challenge of Dublin outfit Clontarf 0-11 to
0-3 while in the second decider the host club fell to Scotstown by a single point
2-5 to 1-7.
In the final a young Scotstown side had no answer to a powerful Donaghmoyne
outfit. The south Monaghan side hit 1-4, the goal from Joanne Geoghgan before Scotstown
registered their only score of the half, a point from Orla Mc Carville. Donaghmoyne
continued to press and a couple of goals from Niamh Mc Carthy and Sharon Courtney
along with a duo of points from Michelle Grimes left the half time score 3-6 to 0-1
in their favour.
Younster Niamh Callan had a dream start to the second half netting
twice in the first minute. Niamh Mc Carthy and Edel Corrigan then traded points but
from here on it was all Donaghmoyne. A further 2-5 followed to give them a 7-12 to
0-2 victory. Player of the tournament Cora Courtney was the top scorer with 2-2 while
midfielder Amanda Casey scored five fisted points.
In the shield semi final Magheracloone
beat Aghabog 3-12 to 4-5 and Knockbride defeated Truagh B 6-4 to 4-8. In the final
Cavans Knockbride proved too strong for Magheracloone winning by eight points 5-9
to 1-13. Daena Clerkin from Knockbride was named shield player of the tournament.
Afterwards
the winners and runners up received their awards from Abbeys father Kieran Fanning
and event sponsor Raymond Aughey.
By Paul Swift
