Junior Soccer Quarter-Final vs Enniscorthy VC

On Friday the 17th of January St.David's Junior soccer team played against Enniscorthy Vocational College. The match was a quarter final of division two of the Wicklow-Wexford league. The match was played at home at Greystones football club.

The game began with an early attempt from Mark Hayden. St. David’s had the upper hand from an early stage and kept possession by moving the ball well on the pitch. There were plenty of attempts at goal, firstly from Cillian Gunning and Maks Sluarczyk, followed up by two further attempts from Roy Byrne. Shortly after Roy’s attempts Michael Martin scored the first goal of the match. Almost immediately Mark Hayden scored again making the score 2-0 to David’s. However after the second goal EVC started to try to make a comeback, putting more pressure on the lads and testing out goalkeeper Ben Hogan. The score remained 2-0 at half-time.

As the second half kicked off the lads got off to a great start. Only a couple of minutes in Euan Brady finished off a terrific move with a lovely finish.The defence in this half was fantastic with the Greystones school eager to keep hold of their clean sheet. It was clear that the lads now had the advantage over EVC as they were the more dominant attacking team. Euan Brady tagged on another goal for David’s as Cian Bollard put himself about in midfield. A couple more late goals from Callum Smith seen St. David’s secure a semi-final spot.  

The semi-final will take place against Glenart College on the 24th of January.