Dundalk U10 Sharks travel to Boyne. The Dundalk U10 squad made the short trip up the M1 to their neighbours Boyne for a blitz on Saturday morning for their first match of the New Year. The Christmas break did not dampen or lessen their enthusiasm as twenty seven lads made the journey. North Meath (one team) and Boyne (four teams) made up the numbers on an extremely cold but dry and sunny day. The Black Sharks were straight into their groove right from the off with Shaun Paul Shannon and Fionn Connolly causing the home defence major headaches. Also a feature of the Dundalk lads fine form was some magnificent interplay between Rory Wallace and Ewan Kelly. During the matches, anytime the opposition were beginning to get a foothold in the games, Ryan Martin and Darragh Collier met them with some ferocious tackling. DD Reilly kept his side on the front foot all day with a masterclass performance at scrum half and the two benefactors of this were Enda Dooley and Oisin Nash who both scored tremendous individual tries. The White Sharks were a little slow to acclimatise to the cold conditions but a fantastic individual try from debutant Sean McKeever sparked them into action. Oisin McBride and Iarlaith Connolly continued the attacking onslaught with a brace of tries apiece.The morale of the opposition was tested to the limit by the strong and relentless running of Calum Lambe and Eoin Purton which in turn provided the space for Eamon Donnelly and Max Valentine to notch up a try each. Adam McCoy performed to his normal high standard by constantly overturning possession and thwarting the oppositions plans. But performance of the day was reserved for Michael Carroll whose pace and power (in both defence and attack) was a joy to witness. Expansive play was the order of the day for the Grey Sharks as they produced some fantastic rugby during their matches with Callum McDowell and Keelan Carroll to the fore. An early injury to both Liam O Connor and Donal Lavery sidelined them for a match but they came roaring back with two outstanding performances in the subsequent matches. Cian McGuiness resembled a freight train on occasions with his barnstorming runs with Jacob Dunlevy and Jack Mullen picking up some very well taken scores. The unfortunate Boyne team just had not the answers for the guile and aggression of Euan McArdle whose sublime display provided the ammunition for Ben Cahill to use his searing pace to outwit the home defence on numerous times. Training continues at 6.30pm on Tuesdays and 10.15am on Saturdays. All new players welcome.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:46:11 +0000
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