OLV35S 3 (M.FITZSIMONS, B.HANNON, S.Parker)

OLV team;

Dave Mullins, Keith Derwin, Gordon Farrell, James Coates  (c),Gerry Shannon, 

Bob Hannon, Emmet Fitzpatrick, Garreth Boyle, Terry Byrne, 

Jonny Dutton, Mark Fitzsimons, 

Brian Fitzsimons, Stuart Parker, Eoin Quinlan, Phil Lowndes, Rory Connolly. 

Manager John Lowndes.

Asst manager Brian Fitzsimons.

Excellent solo goal

Another goal from Boberto 

Nice finish from S.Parker 

A sense of retribution for last season's only defeat against the visitors led to this great result for OLV after a smashing performance against a very good Frankfort Fc team.

   The game began with a frenetic pace and didn't slow down throughout the  opening exchanges as both teams went for it and had a couple of chances each ,one of which was expertly turned around the post from the OLV keeper.

   The first goal of the game arrived shortly after when Mark Fitzsimons used his quick pace to run on to an excellent through ball and skilfully beat a defender before taking the ball around the keeper and placing it just into the near corner for a cracking finish.

   We could have further extended our lead in the closing stages of the half with some fine play and nice efforts that just didn't find the back of the net.

 The start of the second half saw John Lowndes make a couple of changes with Brian Fitzsimons and Stuart Parker entering the game.

  We could have further extended our lead in the early stages of the second half as we were much better than the opposition and were playing some good football and having some decent efforts from distance,Keith Derwin in particular had a couple of long rangers one of those looked destined for the top right-hand corner only to hit the crossbar and go behind for a goal kick.
    We did finally take the lead when some good team play found Brian Fitzsimons and he pulled the ball back across the box for Bob (smoking-Boots)Hannon to poke home and add to his impressive goalscoring form.
   
     Goal number three followed shortly after when another good spell of team play found Brian Fitzsimons and once again he pulled the ball back for the on-rushing Stuart Parker to score his first goal of the campaign.
  At 3-0 we were cruising and maybe we were a little lackadaisical in our approach to finishingoff the game as we allowed Frankfort to get a foothold in the play and they grabbed a fine goal with 12 minutes remaining .
   The remaining minutes were spent with both teams having decent amounts of play but no more goals were scored and the three points were definitely well deserved.


Well done to all involved on Sunday particularly our defence with great performances from all the back four especially our skipper Coatesy who once again flew into tackles and put his body on the line .A great recent run of form has saw three wins in the trot and hopefully we can keep the momentum going and climb up the league table.