Impressive O’Donovan edges out Murphy

JAMES O’DONOVAN bowled impressively at Carrigaline on Sunday where he beat Aidan Murphy by a bowl of odds.

His first bowl fell right, but Murphy’s went to the left and missed it by 40m. Murphy got a fine second shot to take his only lead. O’Donovan bounced back with a brilliant third bowl on the white line that swung with the road and ran past McCarthy’s avenue. Murphy did will to come within 60m of that.

O’Donovan held his odds with his next shot to the end of the wood. He played a perfect fifth shot past Ashman’s, but it drifted to the right. Murphy then got a brilliant bowl towards the top of the straight.