On a pleasant spring sunday Dunsany started their Junior Championship campaign to a winning start.
Original fixed for Skryne the venue was switched during the week to the Meath Centre of Excellence in Dunganny due to the adverse weather.
Dunsany started the brighter and open the scoring through Declan Smyth inside the opening 3 minutes. Dunsany would maintian the majority of the possesion for the opening 10 minutes but would only add a further point in this spell through midfielder Shane Brennan. 5 minutes after this score Dunsany were awarded a penalty, which Pierre Fox dispatched with minimal fuss.
Cortown wpould open their account in the 16th minute. In the 22nd minute confusion in the Dunsany defence lead to the referree awarding the Bohermeen side a penalty. Niall Flynn guessed the right way but there was too much power behind it. Cortown now were in the game and equalized soon after.
Kevin Keena was introduced following injury to David Boyle. In first half injury time Cortown took the lead for the first-time nut Cathal Murphy equalized for the Dunsany side.
Dunsany, in their navy strip, introduced veteran Ger O'Neill for David Hobson, but it was cortown who started the stronger and went 2 points ahead inside the opening 4 minutes. A great free flowing moved was finished off by Kevin Keena to half the deficit. Both teams were guilty of wasting chances and squandering possession. Dunsany brought on Eoin Marsh to try influence more around the middle third. Cortown added to their tally 12 minutes later , which would prove to be their final score.
In the 45th minute Dunsany put together a superb team goal started off by wing back Padraig Maguire and finished by Cathal Murphy.
The game became ragged after this with again both sides missing chances to extened and reduce the score. The game also became niggly with both sides guilty of this. This resulted in Dunsany corner back recieveing a 2nd yellow 3 minutes before the end of normal time. Cortown failed to executed the resulting free and the men in navy responsed in the perfect way when Smyth broke forward and finished to the net. Murphy would add a free at the death to seal the victory.
In what wasn’t a classic Dunsany showed great character and determination to dig out the result.
N Flynn; E Harkin G Byrne R Montague; C Harkin P Burke P Maguire; C O'Donnell S Brennan (0-1); D Hobson A Kelly; P Fox (1-0. 1p) D Smyth (1-1) C Murohy (1-2 1f)
Subs K Keena (0-1) for Boyle, G O'Neill for Hobson, E Marsh for O'Donnell, J Harlin for Kelly
