Our Junior footballers made their first trip of the year this afternoon as they travelled to Croom to play Croom. In tough conditions with a strong wind blowing and the rain falling steadily throughout the sixty minutes made for an uphill battle for both teams.

Croom played with the wind for the first half and took advantage of it. David Kennedy got Ahane’s first point in the 16th minute after Ahane put in serious work out the field. Although the wind was against us in the first half we battled hard and put in some good tackles and made some good passes. Kevin Keenan made some fantastic saves in our goals and he kept a clean sheet for the sixty minutes. Croom started to get on top and fired over three unanswered points before the half time whistle blew. The teams went in on a score line of Ahane 0-01 Croom 0-10.

The second half started and we had the wind to our advantage. Tristan O’Sullivan got his first and our second point of the game in the fourth minute of the second half and again we battled hard in all areas of the field. Nathan McGinty scored a beauty of a point off the back of some fantastic team play from Ahane which deserved to be rewarded with the score. Croom pushed on however and put severe pressure on our backs but they held strong and with another great save from Kevin and great clearances from Brian Murphy at corner back who had a great game meant that Croom were kept goalless. Croom took their points and ended the game with 14 points on the board.

Our boys left it all on the field and put in serious effort throughout the sixty minutes. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be for us today as the game ended on a score line Ahane 0-03 Croom 0-14.

They now play Cappagh on Saturday 14th March at 3pm in a venue to be confirmed. Keep an eye out on social media for the fixture!