Abbeyside brush Gunners aside

Abbeyside 1-21 Ballygunner 4-06

With their backs to the wall in Group 2, they out-muscled their opponents throughout the field to put themselves back in the hunt for a place in the knockout stages. The game was put to bed early in the second half when Mark Ferncombe flicked Mark Gorman’s delivery to the net and they galloped 15 points clear entering injury time. In a bizarre finish, Ballygunner scored three consolation goals to disguise the gap between the two teams.

Abbeyside’s appetite was evident from start to finish and selector Neil Moore admitted. “We treated it as a knockout match. We knew if we were beaten tonight, we were gone out of the championship. Ballygunner maybe had the cushion of an earlier win so we were going that bit harder for the win.”