The Go-Ahead Ireland Senior 2 Hurling Final between Faughs and Ballyboden's Bs takes place this Saturday in O'Toole Park.
We'll just go through a run down of how they each got to the final.
Faughs have been motoring well right from the group stage, where they finished top of the group with 5 wins from 5 and a points difference of +39.
Compared to Faughs above, Boden Bs had an althogteher more difficult time in Group 1 finishing up in third place with 3 wins and 2 losses from their five games.
Onto the knockout stages:
In the quarter-final Faughs met an in form Balinteer St.Johns and came out winners on 1-24 to 1-18 the Round up of the game from the Dublin County Board was:
The final spot in the last four was claimed by a Faughs side who took control after the break on their way to a 1-24 to 1-18 win against Ballinteer St John’s.
The visitors will rue a number of poor wides in the opening-half but they still managed to eke out a 0-12 to 0-11 interval lead thanks mainly to the free-taking of Tommy Cullen and three points from play by Rob Aherne.
The hosts continued to add to their tally through the scoring returns of James O’Brien and Conor Brennan while goalkeeper Eoghan McNamara making some crucial interventions throughout.
St John’s continued to battle through the efforts of Tom Aherne, Iain Ó hEithir, Brian Cahill and Sean Mulligan but their contributions and a late goal by Seamus Fenton failed to spare them their fate.
Had a great battle with Castleknock coming out on top Ballyboden St Enda’s 1-19 - Castleknock 2-15
The report from Dublin GAA said:
The only team to taste success on their travels were Ballyboden St Enda’s, who completed a positive day for the club when edging Castleknock by 1-19 to 2-15 at Somerton Park.
In what was a strong team performance by the visitors, the likes of Liam Dargan, Jono O’Driscoll, Fionn Maguire, Kevin Desmond and Darragh Ormsby took the game to Castleknock throughout.
O’Driscoll top scored with ten points and with Ormsby scoring an impressive 1-6, St Enda’s did just enough to prevail thanks to a point apiece by James Roche, Shane Kennedy and Darragh Smyth.
Faughs had a great win in the semi-finals v a Raheny team which had been putting up big scores in the previous few games - a last minute James O'Brien free clinched it for Faughs 1-16 Raheny 0-18.
An first half hatrick of goals helped Boden Bees overcome Erins Isle 3-12 to 0-20 in what has to be considered a great win asn Isles had been moving well up till then.
Read up on Both Semi-Finals here:
https://www.dublingaa.ie/news/round-up-of-the-go-ahead-ireland-senior-2-hurling-semi-finals
Very hard to call, given the mauling Boden recieved from Raheny in the last round of the group stages, i didnt really expect them to overcome Castleknock and then to beat Isles, the salvo of three goals in the first half set them up and Isles lost a player to a red card just after halftime, but they still nearlly managed a comeback.
Faughs by contrast dominated the group stages, they dont seem to score or concede as many goals as Boden, so if they can hold boden to 2 orfewer goals then possibly they'll have too much for them?
Faughs by 3
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