Newport fall out of Premier Division

Limerick District League Review

By Pat Sheehan

PREMIER DIVISION

Mungret Regional 2-0 Newport Town

the relegation issue was decided on Sunday when Newport Town were defeated 2-0 by Mungret Regional and will now join Carew Park in the Premier A League next season.

Newport needed full points and hope that results elsewhere went their way.

As it transpired, neither panned out. Mungret Reg top scorer Hamza Selman Celik netted both goals to seal Newport's fate.

Newport Town: Harry Ryan; Eoin Looney; Pa Murtagh; Drew McLean, Christy O'Connor; Elliot Slattery; Peter O'Sullivan; Killian O'Malley, Darren Collins, Conor Brett; Brian O'Sullivan. Subs: Dave Ryan, Christy Doyle, Jimmy Fyffe

Geraldines 4-1 Nenagh AFC

Nenagh AFC were hoping to do Newport a favour when they met Geraldines on Sunday and things looked to be going to plan when Dan O'Meara opened the scoring.

However, with survival at stake, ‘Dines showed more fight and ran in scores from

Tony Mambouana, Conor Keane, Pat Whelan, and Shane Dillon to win comfortably.

Nenagh AFC: Mark McKenna; Saeed Ryan; Nichtu Cazaciuc, Darragh McDonnell, Colm Hayden; Conor McCormack; Nathan Kelly, Cillian Scully, Dan O'Meara; Dylan Morrison; Daniel Connolly. Subs: Fionn Higgins, Bryan McGee, Alan Kelly, John Power

Lower Leagues

In Division 1B, Peter Ryan scored for Nenagh AFC ‘B’ in a 1-1 draw with Pike Rovers ‘B’ while in Division 2B, Lough Derg beat Dromore Celtic 4-2 with goals from Dan Fogarty, Cian O’Donohue, Daniel Tighe and Sean Fahy.

In Division 3B, Lough Derg ‘B’ beat Patrickswell 5-2 with Sean Fahy (2), Ryan Imoff, Adam Nolan, and Matthew Ryan on target for the Lakesiders.

Youths Cup

A big crowd were entertained by a cracking Youth Cup tie in Clarisford last Tuesday where Lough Derg took the game to a fine Pike Rovers side who are league champions elect.

Pike took the lead on the half hour but a super dipping strike by Jorden Pratt levelled things just before the break. Shane Conroy back between the sticks made two fine second half saves but it was Derg who had two late chances when Jorden Pratt and Alex Quinn both went close. Penalties decided it and it was the visitors who prevailed 5-3.

Nenagh AFC went down 4-2 at home to Regional United in their Youth Cup tie, despite a number of players playing in a schools game earlier in the day. However, they out in a great effort with Coilin Doris and Ryan Clifford scoring the Nenagh goals but a missed penalty at 2-2 proved costly while Regional were clinical in front of goals especially from set-pieces.