Late goals help Valley Rovers to dramatic victory

Valley Rovers 2-10 Carbery Rangers 0-14: IT isn’t often the sporting planets align to deliver a match climax that maintains the high pitch of everything that preceded it, but such were the delights of last night’s intense Cork SFC first round clash at resplendent Ballinascarthy.

Valley Rovers, last year’s Premier Intermediate champions, is a club with serious momentum at the moment, and this victory — chiselled from a seemingly hopeless situation with five minutes left — will only serve to massage that feelgood magic.

They may not be the finished article — in truth Carbery Rangers are further down the track in that regard — but whatever the Innishannon lads lack, it isn’t gumption. Or stomach for the fight.