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Omagh CBS Retain Mac Cormack Cup
Monday 27.01.2020
Omagh CBS 2-14 St.Colman’s Newry 0-5
Omagh CBS made it back to back titles after Monday evening’s Danske Bank MacCormack Cup final as they saw off the challenge of a disappointing St. Colman’s side that never quite managed to reach the energy levels they had displayed during their semi final win over St Patrick’s Dungannon.
Playing wind assisted the Omagh side took a while to settle but with Daniel Fullerton, Brian Conway, Aaron Montgomery and Sean O’Donnell leading the way the “Brothers” began to open up a gap and they were more than deserving of their 1-9 to 0-4 half time lead.
Colman’s faced an uphill challenge when they emerged for the second half. They had to score early and often but the tenacity and work rate of the CBS defence restricted their much vaunted opponents to a single score and it was the Omagh school that pulled away to win comfortably.
Both sides swapped early scores with Omagh full forward Danny Fullerton showing strongly while Colman’s ace Andrew Gilmore led the line well for the Newry school. With five minutes of the first half remaining Fullerton reacted quickest to punch the ball to the net and put his team in a very strong position at the break leading 1-9 to 0-3.
As the game approached half time Sean O’Donnell and Peter McGlinn pointed for Omagh before Conor Murphy replied for St.Colmans. Omagh were now dominating the game in all sectors and Fullerton pointed again to take his first half haul to 1-6. Just before the break Adam Crimmins was denied the chance of a goal when Omagh goalkeeper Oran Grimes produced a superb save.
St.Colmans struggled to create chances after the restart as the Omagh defence worked hard to cover ground getting up and down the field at will. Eight minutes into the second half the game was over as a contest when impressive wing half back Brian Conway drove through from the half back line. He picked up a superb cross field pass from Sean O’Donnell and smashed the ball low and hard into the bottom left hand corner of the St.Colman’s goal.
That score knocked the wind from the Colman’s sails and Omagh added further points from Aaron Montgomery and Conway before Colman’s finally opened their second half account.
The Tyrone school ran their bench as they saw out the remainder of the game with substitute Finn Grimes their last point scorer. They can now look forward to a quarter final clash with the winners of the match between Abbey CBS and St. Pats Armagh.
Omagh CBS: O Grimes, M Devlin, E Corry, R Burns, B Conway (1-1), R Donnelly, F Taggart, E McShane, E Montgomery (0-3, 2F), S O’Donnell (0-1), R Maguire, C McGillion (0-1), C Daly, P McGlinn (0-1), D Fullerton (1-6, 3F). Subs: M Hayes for McGlinn, F Grimes (0-1) for Fullerton, J McGurk for Maguire, E McConnell for McShane,
St.Colmans Newry: P McAteer, R Campbell, T Magee, P McGrane, M Hynes, S O’Hare, R French, L Fearon, C Lyons, R Fitzpatrick, A Crimmins, D McCarthy (0-1), C Murphy (0-1), A Gilmore (0-3, 2F), P Clancy Subs: O Wilson for Lyons, C McLoughlin for Murphy, J Murtagh for Fitzpatrick, C McElroy for O’Hare
Referee: M McNally, Monaghan
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