The Newry City AFC Academy were back in action last weekend:
Newry City AFC U9 had a very competitive encounter against Valley Rangers on Saturday. Teamwork and resilience were evident from start to finish with lots of good football played by both sides. Newry goals coming from Danny King, Zachary McCormack, Darragh O’Neill and Cayden McSherry.
Newry City AFC u11 v Camlough Rovers 2014 at the Camlough stadium.
Goal scorers – Karol Oleszczuk x 1, Rhys Hempkin x 1, Deaglàn Finnegan x1
A fantastic game of football saw a 3-3 draw between 2 good teams. The game started evenly but Camlough went 2 goals up curtesy of 2 long range shots. Newry kept their chins up to pull a goal back before half time with a well worked goal from Karol Oleszczuk.
Newry started the second half really well and were the more dominant team throughout but whilst creating a lot of chances, they couldn’t find the net. That was until Rhys Hempkin broke free on the left and hit a screamer into the far corner.
Newry kept pressing for a winner but Camlough scored very late with a contested corner. Newry didn’t give up and with the last move of the match – up stepped Deaglàn Finnegan to score with a long range shot. Great scenes at the end of a great game of football.
Man of the match – Karol Oleszczuk
Newry Team: Rory O’Hagan (GK), Max McKeown, Rio Carroll, Daniel Drumm, Noah Kearns, Daìthì Gorman, Karol Oleszczuk, Reuben Bentley-McKevitt, Deaglàn Finnegan, Rhys Hempkin, Harry Owens, Lorcan Haughey
Newry City AFC U15 v Glendowan U15
Newry got off to the better start with Tomas Devlin once again getting on the end of a Mathieu Kavanagh free kick to open the scoring.
As the first half progressed Newry was on top with Eoin, Mathieu and Ross all covering a lot of ground in the middle of the pitch.
The back 3 consisting of Frankie, Tomas and Darragh patrolled the defence really well, as the game progressed Jamie Frank’s and Ronan McCann grew into it creating great chances for the 2 forwards.
Lee Clarke sacrificed himself to get on the end of a dead ball to slip it to Jacob Toner who put it away for Newry’s second goal.
With minutes left of the 1st half Ethan Kelly made 3 great consecutive saves to keep Newry on top, going into half time the more dominant team.
Second half started with Glendowan starting the stronger being rewarded soon after with a goal.
Newry weathered the storm well and could have extended their lead but good goal keeping from Glendowan and a post denied them.
Glendowan equalised with 10mins left on the clock after 2quick saves from Kieran King unfortunately resulted in the ball landing to a Glendowan player to roll into the net.
One final opportunity fell to Mikey Bannon who worked the keeper but Newry just couldn’t get it over the line.
Great overall game and on another day the score line could have been more reflective of Newry’s work rate and opportunities.
Stand out performances from Lee Clark and Eoin Taylor. Final score 2-2.
Newry City AFC U16 V Coleraine U16
In the first 10 minutes Coleraine took the lead but Newry remained disciplined and made it difficult to Coleraine to break the team down while the Newry forwards picked their moments to go and break on Coleraine though unfortunately late on in the half Coleraine fully found their feet and took control finding the net twice before the half time whistle before putting the game to bed early in the second half with their fourth goal.
Next up: NIFL U16 Academy league vs Linfield 5/10/24 Jennings Park 11am