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The minor Division 3 league winners, front l/r: Jason Tierney, Ciaran Mc Connon, Emmet Brady, Aoghann Sheridan, David Conroy, Ciaran Tierney, Ryan McCabe, Owen Smith Brady, Killian Muldoon, Dillon Nelson. Back: Jamie Mc Enroe, Dean Lynch, Enda Mc Gonagle, Diarmuid Conaty, Jake Buckley, Seamus Tierney, Daire Conaty, Paul Gilcreest, Dean Rutherford, Martin Cunningham
Chris Conroy
Conor Martin
Chris Conroy were all outstanding in the 1-13 to 1-5 victory. The win set-up a showdown with Cuchullains in Virginia and the prospect of a place in the last eight for Brady’s men. Played in torrential rain, Lavey once again produced a sterling second-half performance, having trailed by 0-4 to 02 at the break, to see out the win. Sean Maguire took at foothold at centre-field, along with minor star Senan Gilchreest, allowing for Ray Cullivan to be stationed at full-forward. Lavey netminder Conor Martin denied Cuchullains a goal at the start of the second-half and it seemed to be the wake-up call the New Inns side needed as they restricted their opponents to just one point in the last 19 minutes of the game. Cullivan levelled the game on 0-6 apiece on the final quarter mark and then steered his team in front in the 52nd minute. It was Lavey’s first lead in the game since Chris Conroy put them in front in the 10th minute, and they weren’t about to relinquish it as Cavan U21 ace Gerard Smith doubled the advantage before Darren Monaghan
Darren Jordan
Aoghann Sheridan
came off the bench to seal the 0-10 to 0-7 victory and a quarter-final berth for the men in black. Lavey (SFC v Cuchullains): Conor Martin; Aaron Smith, Fergal Smith, Dean Huddleford; Gerard Smith, Joey Jordan, Stephen Jordan; Sean Maguire, Senan Gilchreest; Darren Jordan (0-2), Chris Conroy (0-2), Paul Gilchreest; Shane Conaty, Ray Cullivan (0-2), Karl Duke (0-2). Subs: Darragh Conaty, Darren Monaghan (01). The quarter-final draw would throw up another clash with Crosserlough, this time in Virginia, where the Kilnaleck men made a splendid start to lead by 0-8 to 0-2 at the interval. Once again, Lavey continued their trend of upping their game in the second-half and through the frees of Chris Conroy and Sean Maguire they got themselves back within two points of their opponents but finished three short (010 to 0-7) in the end, which drew the curtain on their championship trail. “We got a lot of frees and didn’t score enough of them,” Lavey’s chairman said on the defeat. “Crosserlough got off to a good start, I think they went up
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Lavey U14 captain Danny Cusack with the Division 2 league cup
0-8 to 0-2 at half-time, but we came back in the second-half and got a great amount of chance but we just missed too many of them in the end. “It’s often said that ‘13’ is unlucky for some, but 2013 was definitely unlucky for us when it comes to injuries, there’s no doubt about that. We also lost FInbar Jordan, who had been one of our best players for a long time. But he got injured in an accident and is out for 12 months. We’ll be hoping that emigration doesn’t take any more players from us as well next year.” MiNORS DELivER LEAGUE TiTLE
In July, Lavey’s minor footballers delivered some much coveted silverware to the club when they saw off Mullahoran’s challenge in the Division Three League final replay in Ballinagh. In a thrilling game of football, Lavey recovered from a slow start which saw them trail by 1-5 to 0-1 after 12 minutes to draw level on 1-7 each by half-time, with wing forward Jake Buckley striking their goal and Darragh Conaty, Jason Tierney and Ciaran McConnon sending