Sallins have too much fire power for Two Mile House

Sallins 3-8

Two Mile House 2-7

Two goals in six second half minutes ensured that Two Mile House would have too much of a hill go climb to claim victory over Sallins in The Auld Shebeen Intermediate Football Championship (Preliminary Round) at Tom Lawler Park, Caragh, on Saturday afternoon.
A third minute Colm Dalton free opened the scoring sending Sallins into an early lead.

Two Mile House quickly shut down the shop and went in search of an equaliser. A Brian Collins point leveled matters before Dalton struck once more to send Sallins back into the lead moments later.

In end to end fashion the sides were deadlocked on two more occasions in the opening half, the first when Liam Coleman leveled matters at two points each before points from Collins and Dalton again maintained the deadlock.
A late Cian Grimes point before the break saw that Sallins would edge ahead just before the half-time whistle.

With the sides well matched it was again Sallins who opened the second half the brightest with Dalton leading on the scoring front once more.

His shot on Didier Cordonnier looked to have found a spot in the left top corner unmarshalled by the net miner only for Cordonnier to make up the ground to punch over and send Sallins two points clear before Dalton finally breached Cordonnier’s defence less than sixty seconds later.

Waiting in the large rectangle Dalton gathered a long ball in before turning and raising the green flag. With that he took both his personal tally to 1-4 and Sallins tally to 1-5.

With goals coming thick and fast, Two Mile House were awarded a penalty at the opposite end. Making no mistake with the conversion Declan Kirwan left two between the sides once more.

Determined to prove that Sallins have more in their attacking prowess than just Colm Dalton, Cian Grimes netted right off Ryan Herbert’s kick out. Working the ball forward through Dalton, who turned supplier, Grimes gathered to send the ball low past Cordonnier, beating him to the right.

Piling the pressure on Two Mile House, Sallins added a further three points in eight minutes to leave eight points between the sides.

With Sallins in control of the tie and nine minutes remaining Two Mile House introduced Chris Healy. With this the late substitute had an immediate impact as he fed the ball through to the waiting Kirwan who held off the challenge of Emmet Ralph to cut the deficit to five. A Healy brace, the first coming from play and the second from a late mark had the deficit quickly down to three with three minutes of normal time remaining.

Looking to steady the ship Sallins again pushed forward. With Rory Gavin drifting into space in the large rectangle, he gathered a fist pass from Alan Marshall before sending a third past Cordonnier.

Late points from Healy and a free from Cordonnier proved too little too late for Two Mile House.

Scorers: Sallins: Colm Dalton 1-4 (2f); Cian Grimes 1-2 (1f); Rory Gavin 1-0; Sean Conway 0-1; Kevin Foley 0-1.

Two Mile House: Declan Kirwan 2-0 (1-0 pen); Chris Healy 0-3 (1f); Brian Collins 0-2 (2f); Liam Coleman 0-1; Didier Cordonnier 0-1 (1f).

SALLINS: Ryan Herbert; Ruairi O’Domhnaill, Darren Keane, Kevin Foley; Conor Dalton, Ben Caulfield, Sean O’Domhnaill; Sean McDonnell, Sean Conway; Alan Marshall, Colm Dalton, Cian Grimes; Emmet Ralph, Jamie Cox, Paul Farrelly. Subs: Ferdia O’Domhnaill for Jamie Cox (35 minutes); Ian Murphy for Ruairi O’Domhnaill (41 minutes); Luke Kelly for Dalton, 45; Rory Gavin for Conor Dalton (47 minutes); Mark Moynihan for Cian Grimes (57 minutes).

TWO MILE HOUSE: Didier Cordonnier; Declan Kirwan, Andrew Cregg, Gavin Burke; Conor Keogh, James McGuinness, Glen Burke; Shane D’Arcy, Matthew Kelly; Liam Coleman, Joe O’Sullivan, Caomhan Dolan; Max Barry, Andrew May, Brian Collins. Subs: William Burke for Andrew Cregg (35 minutes); Christian Barry for Liam Coleman (47 minutes); Kieran Flynn for Joe O’Sullivan (47 minutes); Chris Healy for D’Arcy (51 minutes); Brian Byrne for Andrew May (56 minutes).

REFEREE: Alan Lagrue.