U-18 league Division 2 Round 1 Na Piarsaigh V Roche Emmets, Rock Road on the 7th April. Referee: Tony Dolan.
Roche 7-7 (4-4 H.T.) Na Piarsaigh 3-8 (1-3 H.T.)
This was a good exciting game played on a fine calm spring evening but the sodden pitch, after a few days heavy rain made good football difficult. But both teams served up a good exhibition of passing, carrying and scoring skills.
The home team opened the scoring in the first minute with a point but Roche replied with two points from Dermot Carthy and a goal from John Patrick Rafferty to make the score 1-2 to 0-1. Na Piarsaigh responded with a goal but Roche stepped up the pressure with two goals from Enda Murphy and Dermot Sloane. Then Murphy added another point before Carthy brought his tally to 1-1 with Roche’s fourth goal. Roche were on top with Na Piarsaigh adding only two points to their tally before the break. J.P Rafferty added a further point to make the half time score 4-4 to 1-3 in Roche’s favour.
Na Piarsaigh started the second half the strongest with 2-2 to make the score 4-4 to 3-5. With their play they should have been closer to Roche but for a number of misses from good opportunities. Dermot Carthy’s 2nd goal lifted Roche and they added a further point before Sloane and Patrick Quigley put them in control again with two goals. With Na Piarsaigh getting a point before Quigley’s major the score stood at 7-5 to 3-6 for Roche. Na Piarsaigh lifted themselves with two more points but Roche completed the scoring with two further points from Carthy and Murphy.
Final score Roche 7-7 Na Piarsaigh 3-8
Roche:
| Player | Scored | Tick if played well and position on team (see numbers be side players name) |
| 1 Jamie O’Hare | √ safe hands and good kick outs | |
| 2 Niall Treanor | √ best defender | |
| 3 Kenneth Matthews | Stood up to a lot of pressure | |
| 4 Jamie Duffy | Worked hard | |
| 5 Ciaran Savage | √ stylish defender and cleared a lot of ball | |
| 6 Declan Wiseman | Stuck to his task | |
| 7 John Rafferty | Fed the attack with a lot of good ball | |
| 8 J.P. Rafferty | 1-1 | √ worked hard and supported attack well |
| 9 Andrew Carroll | Got through a lot of defensive work | |
| 10 Enda Murphy | 1-2 | √ important scores and was always a threat |
| 11 Patrick Quigley | 1-0 | √ created a lot of scores |
| 12 David O’Connell | Was always involved | |
| 13 Dermot Carthy | 2-3 | √√ top scorer, impressive |
| 14 Dermot Sloane | 2-1 | √ took his chances well |
| 15 Barry McConnon | √ combined well to make a number of scores | |
| Sub used Kevin Quigley | ||
| Sub used John Hayden | ||
| Sub used Pearce Goss |
