Miltown bow out of Senior Championship

Eire Og 0-8 Miltown 0-6.

Following defeat to Eire Og in Kilmihil on Saturday afternoon, Miltown can now not qualify for the Senior Football Quarter Finals. St. Joseph's made 2 changes to the side which lost to Lissycasey, Conor McKenna came in for the suspended Graham Kelly and Niall Quinn replaced Mikey Neylon who was injured.
Miltown started very well and dominated the opening exchanges. they led 0-4 to 0- 1 after about 15 minutes of the first half. Sean Meade was in control in the centre of the field and Dessie Molohan kicked some fine scores. At the break there was a two point gap, 0-6 to 0-4.
The second half was a different story, Eire Og dominated from the throw in and only some extremely poor shooting kept Miltown in the contest. For their part, St.Joseph's found it difficult to create any kind of platform to get scores from and struggled to win ball at midfield. Kevin Keavey had a great chance to put St. Joseph's back in front when he found himself clear 25 yards out, with the goal at his mercy but his shot produced a good save from Eire Og goalie, Shane O'Connell. With less than 10 minutes to go Eire Og had managed to sneak two points in front and despite Miltown's best efforts the gap remained.

Miltown Team: C.O'Loughlin, P.Hennessy, K.Burke, E.Malone, C.McKenna, Gordon Kelly, B.Curtin, S.Meade, C.Lafferty, S.Curtin, D.Molohan, J.Meade, E.Curtin (C), M.Barry, N.Quinn. Subs: M.Hehir, M.Talty, Gordon Kelly, K.Keavey, G.Egan.