DANSKE BANK Noone Cup

Noone Cup Final: Match Review 2012

August 29, 2012

On the 23rd of January 2012 Abbey CBS Newry played Colaiste Cholmcille, Ballyshannon in the BT Noone Cup Final at the Mid Ulster Sports Academy in Cookstown. The match was extremely
intense from the beginning with the Abbey’s captain, Fearghus Quinn scoring an opening goal in the first few minutes; this left the team confident that there would be more to come!

Colaiste Cholmcille, Ballyshannon were unfortunate, as they missed out on a
couple of shots on goal, with some good saves from the Newry side’s keeper, Adam
Matthews. At half time the score was 1-04 to 0-02 to Abbey CBS Newry.
The start of the second half was memorable for Ballyshannon, as they were
hungry for the ball and showed confidence in what they were doing.

This confidence wasn’t to last as the Abbey started pulling away throughout the second half, with a goal and two points scored in quick succession by Odhrán McCaffrey, Ruairí Campbell and the Abbey captain respectively. In the final quarter of the match it wasanyone’s game, Ballyshannon had their eyes set on goal and scored with about eight minutes to go. This lifted the Donegal side and they were extremely unfortunate
not to go on and score more. The Abbey were not to be beaten in the final minutes and gave it everything, with McCaffrey scoring another late goal. The final score was 3-08 to 1-05 to the Abbey CBS, the first hurling silverware for the Newry side since 1934.