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Maccer Takes Tyrone to Title

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NY GAA by Eugene Kyne,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 1:20 AM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:56 PM

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Tyrone 6-14

St. Raymond's 1-6

TYRONE returned to senior football after a five year absence with an emphatic win over St. Raymond's in the Junior A final last Sunday.

Going undefeated throughout the season (they had three draws with eight wins), they added the Charlie Sweeney Cup to the John Brady Knockout that they won in August. A superb team display was punctuated by a four goal salvo by Barry McElduff that trumpeted their leaving of the junior ranks.

Tyrone stormed out the gate with a brace in the first two minutes from John Kelly. Add to the equation the sending off of Philip Wickham with a straight red for an infraction in the corner and it was a terrible opening for St. Raymond's.

Tyrone added a free from Pakie McMullan and a driving score by Gary Reilly to make it a four point lead before their opponents finally settled. While still on the defensive, Keith Hennessy, Robert Murphy and Shay Furlong started to win the exchanges for the next 10 minutes, while the forwards who were now playing five on six put a point on the board, with Donie Broderick firing over.

They needed more. It did not arrive, and McElduff then finished the game as a contest in the space of five minutes as he put on a record breaking display. A solo run by Cathal Skeffington who stormed forward ended with his fisted pass being added to by McElduff, who finished it to the net.

He drove home his second major within a minute, a soccer style drive, and after a Kelly point two more goals by the new Big Mac Attack gave Tyrone the Charlie Sweeney title.

His fourth was a bullet to the top corner of the net and it stamped his man of the match display for that 10 minute outburst alone. It was now a game akin to the hurling final in Ireland. It was 4-5 to 0-4 at the short whistle, with Raymond's playing for respect in the second half.

They started on the road to redemption immediately with a four player move that ended with Aiden Ryan blasting to the net in the first minute. They followed it with a Broderick point when he took a 52 and converted.

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