Omagh Progress After Extra Time

Friday 13.12.2024

Club

Omagh CBS 1-13 St. Paul’s Bessbrook 1-9

Omagh CBS will play South West Donegal in the MacRory Cup Quarter Finals in the New Year but they had to pull out the stops to get past their last 16 clash with St.Paul’s Bessbrook in Augher on Friday afternoon with extra time required to decide the outcome.

The holders had the opening three points of the game via Adrian McGurren (2) and corner back Owen Griffiths before Bessbrook got back on level terms by the 21st minute thanks to efforts from Tiarnan Brown, Fergal Boylan and Shea Loughran. Scores from Fearghal McGurren and Sean McCann put Omagh CBS two points in front again but the visitors finished the half strongly with points from Kane Rigley and Boylan to leaver it honours even at the short whistle, 0-5 apiece.

Rigley and Thomas Meehan exchanged points on the restart before halftime substitute Peter Colton put Omagh CBS in front with a brilliant brace. Finn Toal and Adrian McGurren exchanged points and with time running out the holders were two in front. In the 58th minute a long ball into the Omagh defence broke and Bessbrook midfielder Daithi O’Callaghan got on the end of it to score a goal. Omagh were in trouble but three minutes into injury time Colton came to the rescue with a superb equaliser. Even after that Bessbrook almost won it in the last attack but O’Callaghan’s attempt at a point came back off the post as it stayed 0-10 to 1-7 and so we had extra time.

Substitute Diarmaid Martin opened the scoring in extra time before a fourth point from Colton doubled Omagh’s advantage. Bessbrook substitute Jarlath O’Neill reduced the deficit but right on halftime in extra time a Mark Kennedy pass released McGurren and he finished low to the net for a breakthrough score. The second half of extra time produced only two points with Ronan Martin reducing the deficit to a single score before Conan Hegarty had the final say for the winners from a Mark.

Omagh CBS scorers: A McGurren 1-3 (3F), P Colton 0-4, O Griffiths 0-1, F McGurren 0-1, S McCann 0-1, T Meehan 0-1, D Martin 0-1,C Hegarty 0-1 (M)

St. Paul’s scorers: D O’Callaghan 1-1, F Boylan 0-2 (1F), K Rigley 0-2 (1M, 1F), S Loughran 0-1 (M), F Toal 0-1, J O’Neill 0-1, R Martin 0-1