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a breeze for the west Cavan men. The MacFinns looked very much in their comfort zone in the opening quarter points from Brian McHugh, Jason Fitzsimons and Adam O'Reilly helped them forge a promising 0-6 to 0-0 lead after just eight minutes. However, when youngster Ryan Maher netted the game’s first goal soon afterwards Maghera’s floodgates began to open. Darren McTaggart notched Corlough's opening point soon after and when Derek Kelleher finished a superb move to the net, the green and whites were propelled into a shock 2-1 to 06 lead. Joe Hanley and Brian McHugh (free) hit back with points for Maghera but their opponents soon had the ball in the net again after Ciaran Dolan had been dragged down and Padraig McGovern slotted n the resultant penalty. Just two minutes later, the would-be winners hit the jackpot again with another Maher goal in the 24th minute to leave the score-line reading 44 to 1-8 in their favour at the interval. Maghera resumed well in the secondhalf but with Darren McTaggart helping himself to a hat-trick of points, Corlough succeeded in keeping their noses in front. The Meath border men look did come close to grabbing a vital score but in moving up the field, they were dispossessed and when the ball landed in Martin Cassidy's hands, the Corlough number 11 made no mistake in cracking home his side's fifth goal. Maghera battled hard in the closing stages and even though Adam O'Reilly banged home a goal on the hour mark, it wasn't enough to derail Corlough from their first JFC win since 2011 on a 5-7 to 2-12 score-line. Corlough (JFC v Maghera): Shane McGovern; Barry Wright, Alan Wright, Eoghan McGovern; Damien McGovern
On duty for the ACFL Division 3 league were, front l/r: Paul Cassidy, Martin Cassidy, Michael Dolan, Joseph Prior, Brendan McGovern (captain), Kyle Doonan, Joseph Dolan, Raymond McGovern. Back: Brian Cassidy, Ronan Kelleher, Ryan Maher, Damian McGovern, Shane McGovern, Pauric McGovern, Mark McGovern, Donal McTaggart, Alan Wright
(0-1), Michael Dolan, Paul Cassidy (0-1); Joseph Dolan, Padraig McGovern (1-0); Derek Kelleher (1-0), Martin Cassidy (10), Darren McTaggart (0-4); Ryan Maher (2-1), Ronan Kelleher, Ciaran Dolan. Subs: Peter Prior for C Dolan (inj); Raymond McGovern for D McGovern (inj); Cian Feehan for B Wright (inj). The win left Corlough needing a similar result from their remaining group game against Kildallan in order to advance into a play-off with Cornafean for a place in the semi-finals. Played in Blacklion, Corlough recovered from a poor start which saw them trail by 2-4 to 0-4 at half-time to claw their way back into contention with a dramatic start to the second-half which saw them netting two goals in as many minutes. Padraig McGovern and Ryan Maher provided the assists to centreforward Martin Cassidy, who smashed home both goals to level the sides. Through Darragh McGovern, Kildallan regained their lead and pushed it up to
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four points in the final quarter but, in typical fashion, Corlough dug deep in the closing stages and refused to let their neighbours run away with the game as a well-struck free from Darren McTaggart was backed up by a late goal from Cassidy to complete his hat-trick and earn a draw (3-8 apiece) for Corlough at the end of a fine contest. Despite the spirited display, the point would not be enough to see Corlough through to a meeting with Cornafean, whom comfortably defeated Kildallan to march into the last four against Arva. “When the championship comes around you have to be ready and if we’d have been better tuned in that day against Kildallan we could have beaten them,” Prior assed. “Darren Dolan and Derek Kellegher deserve a special mention because they were coming over from Scotland to play games. They were coming over on the boat on Friday night and home for games in the early hours of Saturday
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