Nyhan’s battling performance sees him past O’Driscoll and Carroll

Jimmy Nyhan is Munster Vintage (over-60) champion following a battling performance against Mikie O’Driscoll (B) and DD Carroll at Timoleague on Saturday.

Carroll and O’Driscoll started well, leading Nyhan in the early shots. When Nyhan missed sight at Cleary’s with his third Carroll and O’Driscoll extended their leads, though O’Driscoll’s bowl was lucky. Nyhan levelled the score with a massive fourth shot, which Carroll missed by two metres and O’Driscoll beat by just five.

Carroll won the lead with his next, a great bowl up the hill to the double gates. Nyhan fell delivering his reply and O’Driscoll’s bowl drifted left, both well short of Carroll’s tip. Nyhan edged O’Driscoll in the next exchange, but they were little more than 15m fore of Carroll’s tip. Carroll followed with another great shot to the senior finish. O’Driscoll beat that by just five metres and Nyhan missed it to concede a bowl of odds.