{"id":876,"date":"2013-05-20T22:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2013-05-20T22:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:28:22","slug":"junior-bs-late-surge-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/junior-bs-late-surge-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior B&#8217;s late surge falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>North Tipperary Junior B Hurling League<br \/>\nNenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g 1-7 Newport 0-11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a late surge \u00c9ire \u00d3g came up just short against Newport in a hard-fought junior B hurling league clash at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kieran Duffy opened the scoring for \u00c9ire \u00d3g and although Newport struck back with two points a Gary Howard effort levelled it up in the 11th minute. The opening half featured four more Newport points, but \u00c9ire \u00d3g responded with fine points from Ger O\u2019Gorman, Kieran Duffy (free) and Gary Howard. Half-time: Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g 0-5 Newport 0-6.<\/p>\n<p>Newport started the second half in very positive fashion. The sides traded points initially before Newport hit four points without reply to lead 0-11 to 0-6 by the 50th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9ire \u00d3g were far from finished however. In the 53rd minute Gary Howard cracked home a 21-yard free. The Blues followed up Howard\u2019s goal with two wides and piled on the pressure in the closing minutes. A Jack Sheedy point on the hour mark left just one between them. \u00c9ire \u00d3g then fired yet another wide before an Aodh\u00e1n Geaney \u201965 dropped agonisingly short and was cleared away.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9ire \u00d3g\u2019s final game in the group phase of the junior B hurling league is scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 2nd in Borrisokane against Borrisokane at 12 noon.<\/p>\n<p>In the up-coming junior B hurling championship \u00c9ire \u00d3g have been drawn in a group featuring Newport, Ballinahinch, Ballina and Portroe with the top two qualifying for the semi-finals of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g:<\/strong> Brian Gubbins, John Kelly, Lenny Ryan, Brian Duffy, Conor Kirwan, Stephen Ryan, Jack Sheedy (0-1), Aodh\u00e1n Geaney, Kieran Duffy (0-3, 0-2 frees), Philip Hickey, Gary Howard (1-2, 1-0 free), Brian Flynn, Ger O\u2019Gorman (0-1), Stephen Nagle, Aidan Healy. Subs: (43rd) Luke Kennedy for Ger O\u2019Gorman, (43rd) Christopher Ryan for Stephen Nagle, (51st) Peter Egan for Aidan Healy, (51st) Paul Slattery for Brian Flynn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Referee:<\/strong> Michael Murphy (Toomevara).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Tipperary Junior B Hurling League Nenagh \u00c9ire \u00d3g 1-7 Newport 0-11 Despite a late surge \u00c9ire \u00d3g came up just short against Newport in a hard-fought junior B hurling league clash at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh on Monday evening. Kieran Duffy opened the scoring for \u00c9ire \u00d3g and although Newport struck back with two points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nenagheireog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}