Ballingeary too hot for fancied Valley Rovers

BALLINGEARY, last season’s mid-Cork junior football champions, ousted hot favourites Valley Rovers 1-13 to 2-7 in the Evening Echo IFC semi-final at Carrigadrohid yesterday.

After being beaten in thepenultimate stage of the 2005 JFC, they accepted the invitation to step up to the intermediate grade. What made this victory more memorable was the way they pulled out all the stops when they looked like being overrun in the second-half.

Twice they had to come from behind. But, they played with massive conviction and confidence to be worthy of the recognition. They had at least one star in every line of the field and each of the 16 men worked their socks off.