Boden face champions in County Final

BALLYBODEN St Enda’s senior footballers progressed to the Senior Championship final where they meet current champions Kilmacud Crokes after they overcame neighbours St Jude’s 3-13 to 0- 9 in Parnell Park last weekend.

This local derby was keenly awaited and very difficult to predict the result but it was Boden who hit the ground running and in the first minute James Holland raced through the Jude’s defence to pop over a point.

This was followed in quick succession by further points from Luke O’Donoghue, Ryan O’Dwyer and Alex Gavin, all within the first four minutes.

The Firhouse Road side continued to pile on the pressure and Colm Basquel was unlucky not to finish to the net on eight minutes.

Boden were flying in the early stages and after 11 minutes Alex Gavin broke forward again, his pass went to Ryan O’Dwyer was finished to the net to leave the score at 1 – 4 to no score.

As the mid-point of the half approached, Jude’s eventually got the score board working with two points (1 free), but back came Boden with two points of their own from Ryan O’Dwyer and Colm Basquel (fist).

Jude’s Darragh Rooney and Ryan Basquel (free) exchanged points before Darragh Gogan was called on to make a good save to prevent Jude’s scoring a goal.

The Templeogue side managed two more points before half time with Pat Spillane and Kevin McManamon, but these were cancelled out by good points from Colm Basquel and Alex Gavin to leave the half time score at 1 – 9 to 0 – 5.

The free-flowing football of the first half seemed to have been left in the dressing room at half time as it took nearly 20 minutes for Boden’s first score of the second half.

Jude’s had scored a point on six minutes, and it could have been worse for Boden only for three good saves brought off by Darragh Gogan from Alex Hassett and and Spillane.

While Warren Egan got Boden’s first point of the second half on 18 minutes, Jude’s responded with three points in a row with McManamon among the scorers.

This seems to have reawakened Boden as they kept Jude’s scoreless from there on and scored two goals from Basquel and Warren Egan and three points to put them back in the driving seat.

Next up is the county final against Kilmacud Crokes in two weeks.

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