Teenage tyros: The Dr Harty Cup team of the week
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A hard-earned clean sheet for the CBC keeper. The Ballygarvan clubman made four saves to preserve a two-point victory over John The Baptist CS, including an eye-catching double denial late in the first half.
The Lisgoold man is a wing back, but we had to fit him in after an all-action display against Rochestown that delivered 1-2. Not only did he mop up impressively on the flanks added two fine points for good measure.
: The Na Piarsaigh defender was resolute throughout in their win over St Colman’s and kept a tight rein on Fermoy danger man Fionn Lardner.
Midleton CBS needed to beat Rochestown by 21 points to finish top of the group and in the closing stages they led by 19 when Harney produced a sensational hook to deny Cork minor Mark O’Brien a certain goal. Had that gone in their hopes of finishing ahead of Nenagh would have gone with it. Instead, they rallied from that intervention by the Kiltha Og defender and netted two late goals in injury time to get the margin of victory they needed.
: The Glen Rovers man is playing up, though you’d never know it and is one of four AG starters also on the Dean Ryan team preparing for a Munster final next week. Unflustered, and grabbed a crucial second half point in their 0-22 to 0-20 win over St Colman’s.
The Kilworth defender was handed a difficult task to keep tabs on Limerick U20 Hugh Flanagan of John The Baptist CS and applied himself well, even coming forward to stitch a late insurance point and assisting a couple more.
The Inagh Kilnamona centre-back cuts a physically imposing figure at the heart of his side's defence, and he also fired over two monster long-range frees.
The elusive Bresnan stamped his authority on this game from the first minute with a goal, he added another late in the half to kickstart the fightback. From ten points down, his third goal was another catalyst towards victory in UL.
The midfielder picked up a world of breaking ball off the opposition puck-out and assisted a handful of scores. Converted two points of his own and could’ve had a goal too but for a save by the CBC keeper.
The JK Brackens attacker was a member of Tipperary’s extended Minor All Ireland winning panel last summer and is showing good autumn form again for the Tipp school, who qualified this week for a preliminary quarter-final of the Harty.
The Ballinhassig sniper scored 0-10 for CBC, six of those from play, as his side maintained their 100% record to secure a direct route to the quarter-finals. His three-game total stands at 0-29 (16 frees, 13 from play).
A strong ball-winner on the '40 for the Ennis nursery, the Clooney Quin attacker shrugged off an early head wound to produce a dominant display at centre-forward.
A toss up here between Eoin Begley, who netted 3-5 in the first half, or the strong running Arthur, from the Newmarket-on-Fergus club in Clare who not only grabbed 3-1 from play in their win over Colaiste Choilm Ballincolligm but was the architect of several more scores with his unselfish play.
His father hails from Killarney, but the towering Clarecastle full-forward was a huge thorn in the side of Kerry school, Tralee CBS, contributing 1-10 in total (1-2 from play).
The job of the inside line is to find the back of the net and Stack did so impressively on two occasions, when his side needed goals desperately. He also grabbed three points.