Sarsfields Reach Decider After Extra Time Thriller

Sunday 12.10.2025

Championship Football

Drumragh 2-18 Cookstown 2-17

Drumragh will play Clogher in the Connollys of Moy Junior Championship Final after they came through an absorbing clash with Cookstown in their replay at Killyclogher on Saturday afternoon. As was the case in the drawn encounter, both sides served up another cracker and this time it took extra time to decide between two good sides.

Drumragh shaded the first half of normal time although they will feel that they should have been further in front. GO Power man of the match Niall McCarney had opened the scoring with a two pointer from a free with Eoin Montgomery, Michael Roche and Kian Murphy also on target but efforts from Nathan Connolly, Matthew Carberry and Karol Wawrynkiewicz meant that the Father Rocks only trailed 0-7 to 0-6 at the break.

Murphy and Wawrynkiewicz traded points on the restart before Daniel O’Neill bagged a well taken goal for the winners in the 35th minute. McCarney knocked over another two pointer from a placed ball as a gap opened for the first time in the contest. Connolly responded with a point but when substitute Eamon McCann grabbed a second Drumragh goal in the 53rd minute it looked all over bar the shouting. Ben Monk added a point to leave it 2-12 to 0-10 as we went into the five minutes of allotted injury time. Drumragh lost McCarney to a black card but nobody could have foreseen what was to happen. Matthew McNeill palmed in a Cookstown goal and he added a point as did Karol McGuigan before Wawrynkiewicz completed an unbelievable turnaround with a goal with the last kick to leave it 2-12 each.

Cookstown now had their tails up and in the first half of extra time Wawrynkiewicz converted two frees either side of a two pointer from play. Drumragh were in trouble but they did get the last score of the half from a McCarney free. McCarney nailed a two point free on the restart before Conall Sheehy replied for Cookstown. The Father Rocks then lost Eoghan Donnelly to a black card before McCarney burst past a number of challenges to fire over the bar and reduce the deficit to the minimum. Drumragh won possession from the next kickout and Murphy sent over the equaliser before corner back Alex McGlinchey proved to be the hero with the winning point.