Patrician's Newbridge season ends after defeat to St Peter's Dunboyne

Br Bosco Cup

St Peter’s Dunboyne 2-22

Patrician’s Secondary School Newbridge 3-7

Patrician’s Secondary School Newbridge’s season came to an end with defeat to Meath school St Peter's Dunboyne as the Kildare school exited the Brother Bosco Cup at the group stages.

This game began with intensity and the sides were no further apart after five minutes played with 0-2 each.

This game’s first major moment came just three minutes later when St Peter’s got their first goal. A long ball into target man James Lonergan proved, as it did all game, fruitful with the full-forward having his initial shot saved by goalkeeper Robbie Byrne before sidefooting home the rebound. Patrician’s finished well adrift in this game but it could have been far more were it not for an exceptional performance from Byrne throughout this game.

Patrician’s trailed 1-3 to 0-3 after 12 minutes before the visitors hit five scores (and six points) without reply to surge into a healthy lead. St Peter’s finished this game with eight different scoring sources and that was on full display in this dominant spell with each score, including a two-pointer from Andrew Norman, coming from a different player.

The trailing side's best route back into this game was undoubtedly star man Hugh Martin who created the perfect chance to do so in the 23rd minute when he broke through on goal before he was brought to the floor. Martin stood over the penalty himself and sent the goalkeeper the wrong way to find the bottom left corner.

Patrician’s capitalised on that shift in momentum with points from Luke Mahon and Hugh Martin before the break to close the gap, they trailed 1-9 to 1-5 at half-time.

It was tit for tat in the minutes after the restart with St Peter's points from Sean Delaney and Eoghan McDonald being matched at the other end by Mahon and Martin for Patrician’s again.

The visiting team pushed six clear with 10 minutes gone in the second half after points from  James Lonergan and Tadhg Brennan, the first of which was preceded by a guilt-edge goal chance that was stopped by Robbie Byrne. 

However, the Newbridge school came roaring back into this game with Hugh Martin's second goal after he faked to shoot to beat his man before beautifully finding the far corner.

Back to a gap of just three, the minutes that followed Martin’s second goal were crucial and it was St Peter's who re-established themselves.

A brilliant James McCaghy two-point free off the ground was followed by two separate points from Sean Delaney before Calbhach O'Ceallaigh got the Meath men's second goal in a blistering three-minute sequence that gave them a 2-17 to 2-7 lead with 12 to go.

Patrician’s got their third goal of the game through substitute Ross O'Hagan who rose superbly above his opposite number to punch home Hugh Martin’s searching ball into the box.

St Peter's got a penalty less than a minute later, which was, seemingly intentionally, put over the bar by James Lonergan.

The eventual winners finished the strongest with the final four points of this game to finish as 2-22 to 3-7 winners as the Newbridge school’s season came to an end.

Dunboyne, Sean Delaney 0-8 (0-5 frees), James Lonergan 1-4 (0-1 mark, 0-1 penalty), Calbhach O'Ceallaigh 1-1, James McCaghy 0-3 (0-3 frees, one 2pt free), Andrew Norman 0-2 (one 2pt), Eoghan McDonald 0-2, Eoin McCrudden 0-1, Tadhg Brennan 0-1.

Patricians Newbridge, Hugh Martin 2-2, 1-0 penalty), Luke Mahon 0-4 (0-2 frees), Ross O'Hagan 1-0, Aaron Redmond 0-1.

ST PETERS DUNBOYNE: Sean Doyle; Eoghan Peal, Ryan Monahan, Paul Dempsey; Noah Whitton, Dominick Eaton, Andrew Norman;  Eoin McCrudden, Eoghan McDonald; James McCaghy, Sean Delaney, Barry Padden; Calbhach O'Ceallaigh, James Lonergan, Tadhg Brennan. Subs: Shay Mooney for Dominick Eaton (42 minutes).

PATRICIANS NEWBRIDGE: Robbie Byrne; Eoghan Colgan, Garvan Walsh, Sean Troy; Tadgh Kelly, Aaron Murphy, Billy Donoghue; Daniel Cummins, Jonathan Breslin; Brevin Sourke, Hugh Martin, Myles Darcy; Sean Coleman, Luke Mahon, Aaron Redmond. Subs: Daniel Fox for Jonathan Breslin (34 minutes), Oisin Coleman for Myles Darcy (42 minutes), Ross O'Hagan for Sean Coleman (42 minutes), Jamie Wolfe for Aaron Redmond (54 minutes).

Referee: Henry Barrett

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