Posted online: Aug 17th, 2010

All County League Division Two  

Killybegs 0-03    Malin  0-14 

Malin sit proudly at the top of the All County League Division Two following an emphatic win over the Fisherman of Killybegs on Saturday evening.

Glenfin’s draw with MacCumhaill’s on Sunday means the Inishowen side are now in the healthy position of leaders by a point with a game in hand.

But Killybegs’  preparation for their senior county championship clash with Four Masters continues to splutter, following their second defeat in as many weeks.  

After their previous loss away to Glenfin, the Fishermen were hoping to get back to winning ways at the Eamon Byrne Memorial Park on Saturday evening, but the visitors completely blew them out of the water.  

Killybegs, without the services of Anthony O’Hara, Conal Molloy, Jason Noctor and both Ciaran and Charles Tully, were hoping to get their promotion chase back on track.  However, Louis Walsh’s men let their intentions be known from the off, as they cantered into an early 0-4 to 0-1 advantage.  

Daniel Breslin had opened the scoring for the hosts, but scores from Declan Walsh, Terrance Doherty and a brace of frees from the impressive Anthony Kelly soon had Malin on their way.  

Louis McNern steadied the tide momentarily, but Killybegs continued to lead a charmed life in front of their own posts. Malin should really have been home and dry before the break after Damien Ward had fed Paddy McColgan inside but the forward’s effort was well beaten away by Michael Mullin in the Killybegs goal.  

Malin did manage to tag on two more scores before the break as the lively Gary Farren and Anthony Kelly (free) both raised white flags.  

That left the home side 0-6 to 0-2 in arrears going in at the break, but there was still belief during the half time tea and sandwiches that Killybegs could turn things around during the second period.  

They didn’t make life any easier for themselves following the restart as John McColgan and Kelly both lofted over early scores to leave Killybegs chasing a six point lead. Paddy McColgan then passed up another goal chance for his team when he ghosted in on the wrong side of David Conwell only to find the outside of the post.  

Kelly and Kevin Martin traded scores immediately after with Martin’s free bridging a gap of thirty minutes between the home side’s last score of the contest – way back in the fifteenth minute of the first half.  

Killybegs then gifted the opposition another easy point after Ronan Boyle surrendered possession with a stray pass, allowing Paddy McColgan in to point.

From that kick out immediately after, Kelly fielded possession and fired over his sixth of the day to leave his side 0-11 to 0-3 to the good. A fine free from the hands wide on the left added again to Kelly’s personal tally as Killybegs more or less threw in the towel. 

Malin closed out the contest with two more scores through Declan Walsh and Kelly; probably their two most influential performers on the day.  

Killybegs: Michael Mullin: David Conwell: Kevin fallon: Kieran Conaghan; Shan e Molloy: Shane Boyle: Kevin Martin (0-1); Christopher Murrin: Pauric Conaghan; Pauric Gallagher: Paul McGinley: Louis McNern (0-1); Mark Boyle: Daniel Breslin (0-1): Ryan McNelis 

Subs: Ronan Boyle for Fallon and Manus Boyle for Pauric Conaghan.  

Malin: Declan Lafferty: Darren Doherty: Pauric Lafferty: Kevin McColgan; Daniel Greene: Charlie Byrne: John McLaughlin (0-1); Paddy Kelly: Declan Walsh (0-2); Damien Ward: Anthony Kelly (0-7): John G McLaughlin; Gary Farren (0-1): Terrance Doherty (0-1): Paddy McColgan (0-2). 

Subs: Mathew Boyle for Terrance Doherty and Daniel McDaid for Paddy Kelly.  

Referee: Pat Walsh (Bundoran