Cotter point keeps Cloyne in the hunt as Gaeltacht men fall short

A LATE point from corner-back James Cotter put Cloyne back in contention for the Evening Echo Cork IFC title as they edged past Cill na Martra at Ovens last night.

Trailing by a point with a minute of normal time left, the east Cork side finished strongly, Paudie O’Sullivan equalising and then, in injury-time, Cotter fired over after a frantic passage of play around the Cill na Martra 45.

A tally of 1-6 from O’Sullivan was crucial, the attacker effective at corner-forward in the first half before being relocated to centre-forward for the second period.