Newmarket’s Junior hurlers secured their fifth win on the spin on Sunday afternoon when they defeated Millstreet away, 1-18 to 0-13.

A Donal Hannon brace opened the scoring, with team mate Cathal Browne adding to the total soon after. Two further frees from Hannon ensured the away side led 0-05 to 0-02 at the ten minute mark. A quick fire pair of points from Barry O’Connor followed by a Hugh O’Connor score extended the advantage to five at the quarter hour mark. A fifth Hannon strike was followed by a period of dominance from the home side as Millstreet rattled off five unanswered points, drawing level on the 27th minute. A Paddy Browne point just as the half drew to a close, was enough to give his side the narrowest of leads at the break.

Newmarket strengthened their position early in the second half through Cathal Browne, Barry O’Connor and Rory Lynn. A Millstreet brace on 37 minutes reduced the arrears to the three. The visitors replied through Colin O’Sullivan and Josh O’Keeffe, talking full control a few minutes later when Rory Lynn finished a shot to the Millstreet net. A 49th minute point from Donal Hannon and a Lynn score in the closing stages, confirmed an eight point win and the strong start to the league season.  

The Newmarket team and scorers…

Donal Hannon (0-06, 3f), Rory Lynn (1-02), Cathal Browne (0-03), Barry O’Connor (0-03), Josh O’Keeffe (0-01), Paddy Browne (0-01), Hugh O’Connor (0-01), Colin O’Sullivan (0-01).

Darragh Kearney
Eoin Walsh		Josh O'Keeffe		Daniel Norton
Mikey Browne		Mikey Cottrell		Aidan Browne
	Paddy Browne		Gavin Forde
Hugh O'Connor		Cathal Browne		Colin O'Sullivan
Barry O'Connor		Rory Lynn		Donal Hannon
Subs: Alan Ryan, Kevin O'Sullivan, Shane McAulliffe, Ethan Hourigan, Paudie O'Sullivan, Kevin Daly