Page 100 - The Bellfort - Summer 2015

P.E. Department (Boys) Dunclug Boys do the Double!! and fowed, Dunclug came agonisingly close to getting the decisive goal, hitting the crossbar on four sepa- rate occasions. However, the players’ dreams of mak- ing the fnal were shattered with only eight minutes of the match remaining, when Lismore took full ad- vantage of a weak defen- sive clearance to get the all- important goal to edge ahead 3-2. The fghting spir- it shown previously by the School (10-1). A semi-fnal The Year 1o football team team seemed to evaporate tie against Lismore was had a season to remember, at this point, leading to two staged at Solitude, the not only completing the other late goals being con- home of Cliftonville from Mid-Antrim Schools’ league ceded and ending any the Irish Premiership, and cup double, but also hopes of completing the providing a big stage at- winning the NEBSSA fve-a- much-talked about ‘triple’ mosphere and the added side competition and reach- in the lead-up to the match. bonus of using the home ing the last four of the NI changing rooms in prepara- Intermediate (Under 14) tion. The sense of occasion Plate competition, only to seemed to afect some of be beaten by the eventual the team and after making winners of the competi- a very hesitant start to the tion, Lismore Comprehen- match, two goals were con- sive, Craigavon. This nation- ceded in the opening ff- al competition paired the teen minutes to trail by two school against opposition goals to nil. Joshua Court- from diferent parts of the ney provided the team with province, with wins record- renewed vigour when he ed against Newtownabbey netted from a tight angle, The winning NEBSSA 5-a- (7-0), Christian Brother’s before Lee O’Brien capital- side team after beating Omagh (6-2) in earlier ised on a defensive mix-up St.Mary’s Grammar Ma- rounds and an emphatic to score the equaliser on gherafelt in the fnal with win in the quarter-fnal the stroke of half-time. In a the winning ‘golden goal’ stages against Omagh High second-half which ebbed scored by Lee O’Brien. 100