Dundrum Utd 0 Castlewellan Town FC 2nds 1
The new season kicked off on Saturday and the 2nds got their campaign of to a great start with a win away to newly formed Dundrum Utd. The town defence came under some early pressure but they stood firm with Ryan Owens very impressive on his return to the Town colours and Mickey Watson was more than a match for any efforts Dundrum had on goal. Castlewellan grew into the game with the marauding Dara Ward and Sean Fitzsimmons linking brilliantly down the right wing. The best chance of the first half fell to Aidan Dornan who could not keep his effort down after a great one touch move involving O’Neill and Croskery.
In the second half McMullan and Corrigan got on top in midfield and you could sense a goal was coming however when Fitzsimmons blazed over from 5 yards out and Dornan had a goal disallowed it looked like it was going to be ‘one of those days’. However Fitzsimmons made amends after he was brought town in the box and coolly drilled the resulting spot kick past the helpless Dundrum keeper. Brian McVeigh and Jason Croskery had chances to seal the win late on but both efforts were just off target.
Managers Hanna and Boyle were delighted to get off to a winning start and after the match Hanna added
“A great team performance and all 13 players involved played their part. I’m particularly delighted that we kept a clean sheet”.
Next up for the 2nds is Drumaness at home this Saturday.
