Sunday 6th January
TSDL Premier League
Peake Villa Junior A 3-0 Bansha Celtic
Scorers: Pippy Carroll (60 Mins) Alan Ryan (65 Mins) Kieran Hennessy (80 Mins)
TSDL Division 1 League
Rosegreen Rangers 0-1 Peake Villa Junior B
Scorer: Matthew Fogarty (55 Mins)
Villa travelled to Dualla to play Rosegreen after a few weeks off for the Christmas break, looking to pick up another three league points. Despite missing a few regulars through various reasons Villa started brightly on a very poor pitch and dominated early exchanges with early efforts from Dale Loughnane and Adam Garrett failing to hit the target. Darragh Byrne was causing all sorts of problems for the hosts defence but the final ball into the box was defended well by Rosegreen or failed to find target from the Villa attackers. After 30 minutes a through ball from Eoin Dwyer put Adam Garrett through one on one with the hosts keeper but Adam failed to round the keeper and another chance passed. In defence Kevin Croke and Matthew Fogarty were solid in the middle and dealt well with mainly long balls forward from the hosts. Youth Jack Ryan Casey and Stevie Fewer were dominating the middle of the park and despite a couple of half chances the first half ended 0-0.
The second half began in the same vain with Villa on the front foot and a couple of more chances fell to Dale Loughnane and Adam Garrett but again failed to find the breakthrough. Then on 55 minutes after a great ball from Jack Ryan Casey to Mark Lennon, who then beat his man on the endline and put a super ball across the six yard box for Matthew Fogarty to tap home, a well deserved goal.
Soon after a mix up in the Villa defence allowed the Rosegreen striker in on goal but a brave save from Villa keeper Shane McGuire kept the hosts out, taking a knock to the head for his troubles. Eoin Dwyer and Darragh Byrne were linking up well with Dale Loughnane but the hosts were keeping Villa out through some good goal keeping and poor finishing from Villa. The hosts were loading long balls into the Villa box in last few minutes looking for equalizer but Cormac Lanigan, Kevin Croke and in particular Matthew Fogarty were immense in defense, seeing the game out for 3rd clean sheet in a row.
It was a well deserved three points and Villa could have had more goals but the 1 goal on day was enough. Best on the day for Villa were Kevin Croke, Stevie Fewer, Jack Ryan Casey and Darragh Byrne, but man of match on the day was Matthew Fogarty.
Saturday 5th January
TSDL Youth Division 1 League
Cahir Park A 3-1 Peake Villa Youths
Scorer: Barry Ryan (1)