O’Driscoll has the measure of Cooney
Cooney won the opening shot, but he played his second bowl into the left dyke to miss O’Driscoll’s tip by 40m. O’Driscoll increased his lead towards Geary’s and had almost a bowl at the no-play line. Cooney did well off the line, but O’Driscoll raised the bowl in full when Cooney made a second mistake at O’Riordan’s.
Cooney knocked the bowl with a brilliant shot from there to full light at the top of the long straight. O’Driscoll did well to come within five metres of that tip. He pushed almost two clear when Cooney missed light at the top of the short straight. He was two in front at the sycamores. He held that in the last two shots, with the last tips being marked dead-level.
