Boden delight as they capture SFC title

Sun, 1st November 2015

BALLYBODEN ST ENDA'S 2-8 ST VINCENT'S 0-10

DubsTV First Half Highlights:

Ballyboden St Enda's toppled champions of the last two years, St Vincent's, in Sunday's Dublin SFC final at Parnell Park.

Boden advance to face Louth champions, St Patrick's, in Drogheda next Sunday after a superb team effort saw them defy the odds to capture the Dublin title for the first time since 2009 and the third time in their history.

The southsiders stormed into this game and were 1-5 to 0-0 clear inside 15 minuites to leave Vincent's still struggling in the starting blocks with the Basquel brothers, Ryan and Collie, impressing in the Boden attack.

The goal arrived before the quarter mark when a point effort from Andrew Kerin dropping short was not dealt with by the Vincent's defence and Collie Basquel took full advantage to square the ball to Kerin to palm to the net.

Boden could not have asked for a better opening as they brought great intensity to all aspects of their play and blunted Vincent's ability to play with their regular precision and timing with Bob Dwan, Shane Clayton and Darragh Nelson particularly prominent in the Boden defence.

Before the interval Vincent's began to gain something of a foothold in the game and but Boden were still very much in control when leading 1-7 to 0-3 but the wide tally told its own story - Vins 8, Boden 1.

Three minutes into the second half the influential Michael Darragh Macauley found an on-running Conal Keaney flying through on goal and after he was deemed to have been fouled Kerin made no mistake from the penalty spot.

A few minutes later Conal Keaney fired over a fine point to make it 2-8 to 0-4.

Boden failed to score again as Vins drew on all their might to try find a way back into contention.

The deadball accuracy of Tomás Quinn, who shot five second half frees, began to help Vincent's cut into the deficit.

However, Boden never really looked like coughing up goal chances as they progressed to represent Dublin in the Leinster club SFC.

DubsTV Post Match Interviews:

SCORERS - Ballyboden St Enda’s: A Kerin 2-1 (1-0 pen, 0-1f), R Basquel 0-3, A Waters, D O’Reilly, C Basquel, C Keaney 0-1 each. St Vincent’s: T Quinn 0-6 (0-6f), R Trainor 0-2, G Burke, S Carthy 0-1 each.

BALLYBODEN ST ENDA'S: P Durcan; S Clayton, S Hiney, S O’Connor;D Nelson, B Dwan, A Waters; MD Macauley, D O’Mahoney; D O’Reilly, R Basquel, C Basquel; S Gibbons, C Keaney, A Kerin. Subs: D McCabe for O’Mahoney (34), D Davey for R Basquel (39), R McDaid for Gibbons (47), D O’Callaghan for C Basquel (48), S Molony for O’Reilly (51), S Durkin for Waters (56).

ST VINCENT'S: M Savage; H Gill, J Curley, M Concarr; B Egan, G Brennan, N Mullins, D Murphy, S Carthy; G Burke, D Connolly, Cormac Diamond; R Trainor, C Dorney, T Quinn. Subs: K Golden for Murphy (23), J Feeney for Dorney (25), Cameron Diamond for Burke (38), C Wilson for Egan (51, BC)

REF: BTiernan (O’Dwyer’s).