Boys Football Blitz; May 2022

On Monday our gaelic football team had its first match in Doon. We had to come first or second that day to get into the finals.
Our first match was against Oola. They scored the first point, following up with a goal we came back with a point. Oola came back with a flurry of goals. Our midfielder responded with a goal. Then was subbed on for Gearoid, but then the whistle blew for half time.
I was half forward for the second half. About five minutes into the match, Oisin was soloing up the pitch, but was pressured to kick it upfield to the forwards. It bounced pretty well in front of me so I tried for a volley but it went wide. And even though Oola basically controlled the match from there, Martin managed to score for us in the end.
We had a break then, seeing as the other 2 pitches were occupied and there was no one to play.
We were against Bilboa next, who had the best team there on the day. I wasn't starting so I watched on with Alex and Eoin. I was subbed on about five minutes later for Gearoid in midfield. I don't remember much from that game, but it didn't go well.
Next we were up against Nicker. I started in half forward with Alex and Darragh. Unfortunately, that wouldn't be a very busy end of the pitch. It came close a few times, and we did score from a free at one point, but Nicker were putting the ball in the back of the net time after time. From what I remember. I was subbed off for the second half. It went a bit better, we scored a goal and a point I think.
Next we were playing Caherconlish,  And I was starting for once. We had twelve players instead of the nine we had before then. I started as a midfielder. I lost the start, but Caherconlish conceded a foul almost immediately. Cathal took it, and belted it down the field to the forwards. I caught it and didn't screw up the soloing for once. I passed it to eoin but he fumbled it, so i caught it again and scored a goal. We did score more that game, but I don't remember who. Anyway, we finished the day off nicely with a win at last.

Ogie; 5th Class

Yesterday  the 5th, 6th and 4th class boys and I went to Doon gaa to play a blitz against the local primary schools. 

We got dressed and put on the jerseys at the school and we had a car to the blitz. Our first match was against Oola. We had a good start but Oola got the better of us in the first half. Near the end Tineteriffe got back into it and sadly only lost by 3 points. After the match we had a break and we watched Caherconlish play Oola. Then our next match was against Bilboa. 

We went over to the second pitch and met our opponents. We knew  it was going to be a hard match because the whole of our GAA team was on it. Sadly Bilboa had a very strong team and we were losing at the end of the first half. Players got subbed in and subbed off but it wasn't too much help so we lost at the end of the match. We didn't give up hope and our next match was against Nicker. We didn't know what we were facing so we just kept trying we got off to a good start and at the end of the first half we were actually winning so we came off and we all had a drink and went back on.

We got off well again but by the end of the match Nicker pulled away and got the win so they went through to the final along with Bilbao. We had one match left so we gave it our all and finally pulled off and finally beat a team but it wasn't good enough to go through to play in a final. 

I really enjoyed playing this but I was disappointed we didn't go through to play in the final in the Gaelic Grounds.

Cathal; 6th Class