2005

SHC 1st Round 8/5/05

Castletown 1-12 Mountrath 1-12 

From Hogan Stand

Castletown snatch draw with late rally

Former senior hurling kingpins Castletown came from six points down with three minutes remaining to earn a 1-12 to 1-12 draw with Mountrath in an exicting championship clash at O’Moore Park last weekend.

With Thomas Russell in fine scoring form, Mountrath looked to have done enough until Castletown staged a late rally which included points from James Hooban, David Cuddy and Joe Delaney, and a goal from Padraig Cuddy.

In the week’s other senior hurling championship game, Tinnahinch gained a somewhat fortunate 2-9 to 0-13 victory over Camross. The Tinnahinch goalscorers were James Young and Joe Conroy.

SHC Semi FInal 2/10/05

Castletown 1-13 Portlaoise 0-11 

From Irish Independent

Castletown knock out champions

CASTLETOWN dethroned champions Portlaoise in Portlaoise yesterday but will have to wait see who they meet in the final after Rathdowney-Errill and Camross played out a thrilling 2-12 to 2-12 draw in the other semi-final.

SCORERS - Camross: Z Keenan 1-11, D Culleton 1-0, B Keenan 0-1.Rathdowney-Errill: T Mahon 2-2, J Purcell 0-4, L Tynan, E Meagher 0-2 each, S Dollard, C Browne 0-1 each.

SCORERS - Castletown: J Palmer 1-0, D Cuddy 0-4, R Kingston 0-3, C Cuddy, F O'Sullivan 0-2 each, J O'Sullivan and R Delaney 0-1 each.Portlaoise: N Costelloe 0-6, B McCormack 0-2, E Browne, T Fitzgerald 0-1 each.

SHC Final 23/10/05

Castletown 0-13 Camross 1-10 

From Hogan Stand

Teenager stalls Castletown celebrations as Camross steal draw

Sixteen-year-old Zane Keenan earned a draw for Camross as Castletown were denied the Laois county title at the death. Five minutes of injury time was enough to ensure a replay on Monday, October 31st (O’Moore Park, 2pm). 

Castletown had looked as though they were going to win their eighth senior title as they hit seven unanswered points in the second half.

Entering injury-time, Camross’ substitute Tomas Burke reduced the gap to four points before Keenan put one score between them with a point.

When forward Damien Culleton was pulled down, Keenan drove the ball to the net to restore parity.

Camross - T Doran 0-1; L Cuddy, P Cuddy, M Moloney; S Gilmore, F Hogan, D Keenan; C Delaney, B O’Sullivan; Z Keenan 1-7, D Culleton, B Keenan; J Palmer 0-1, K Cuddy, G Cuddy. Subs: T Doran for D Keenan, T Burke 0-1 for G Cuddy, G Cuddy for B Keenan

Castletown – G Cuddy; M Phelan, B Ferns, T Phelan; D Keenan, P Cuddy 0-2, D Brophy; D Cuddy 0-2, R Delaney; JR Kingston 0-2, J O’Sullivan, C Cuddy 0-3; S Lyons, F O’Sullivan 0-2, J Palmer. Subs: J Hooban 0-2 for Lyons, B McLelvey for Palmer.

Referee: A Stapleton (Rathdowney)

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