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Wed 25th Jan 2012
On the 23rd of January Abbey CBS Newry played Donegal CBS in the 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!
Donegal 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 Donegal CBS, 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 2 points scored in quick succession, by Odhran McCaffrey, Ruairi Campbell and the Abbey captain respectively.
In the final quarter of the match it was anyone’s game, Donegal CBS 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.
Submitted by: Mark Grogan
