Owen Roes 2002

OWEN ROES  0-6  GREENCASTLE  1-10
(Friday 5th April 2002)

Greencastle got off to a great start and scored 1-2 inside the first 10 minutes before Eoghain Rua opened their account with a superb Chris Kelly score from outside the 50' from play. Aidan Christy and Paul Kelly were forced to switch with one another in the full-back line inside the first 15 minutes to steady up the defence and Owen Roes were four points behind at the break.
Half-Time: Eoghain Rua 0-3 Greencastle 1-4.

Greencastle extended their advantage on the restart but then had a man sent off midway through the 2nd half for a second bookable offence. Although Eoghain Rua went on to apply a lot of pressure in the final quarter they could only reduce a  nine-point deficit to seven points as some good chances were wasted. The ball rarely left the Greencastle half of the field in the closing stages with the Roes spare man putting back in any ball that came out to him. However, with Sean Teague on top in defence for Greencastle, most of the home team's attacks were quickly closed down.
Full-Time: Eoghain Rua 0-6 Greencastle 1-10

Owen Roes team: Sean Devine, Paul Kelly, Kevin Doherty, Aidan Christy, Declan Bradley, Stephen Dooher, Bosco Devine, Kevin Moore, Declan Mc Crossan (0-3), James Mc Crossan (0-1), Christopher Kelly (0-2), Willie Doherty, Mark O'Neill, Paul Bradley, Ronan Parker.
Subs: Aidan Mc Crossan for Mark O'Neill, Mickey Kelly for Willie Doherty.

Referee: Sean Mc Cartan (Loughmacrory

MIXED FORTUNES FOR OWEN ROES
AGAINST POMEROY
(Sunday 7th April 2002)

On Sunday last, Owen Roes Reserve and Senior teams travelled to Pomeroy. For the Reserves this was their first competitive game of the season, and they opened the scoring with a free from full forward, Gerard Kelly. However, Pomeroy were quick to reply with a goal and 2 points. In another Roes attack, Malachy Gallagher was unfortunate to have his shot at goal saved by the keeper, the ball going over the bar for a point instead. Pomeroy increased their lead further with another point from a free. Again Gerard Kelly pointed, this time from play. The first half ended with Pomeroy leading by 1-7 to 0-6, further points coming from Sean Mc Bride, Lornie Crossan and Tom O' Neill. After half-time, Joe Kelly and Gerry Doherty came on for Gavin Donaghey and Bert Kelly in the full-back line. Lornie Crossan scored the first point of the half, followed by one from Stephen Boggs. These were quickly cancelled by 2 points from frees for the home team. Sean Doherty had only just come into play for Malachy Gallagher, when his shot on goal was well saved by the keeper. This however was the start of the comeback for Owen Roes with 6 points in a row, all from play, from Gerard Kelly, who was unfortunate to hit the crossbar with a good goal chance. A second shot at goal came off the upright but Tom O' Neill pointed from the rebound. Pomeroy were only able to reply with two late points from play.
Full Time Score: Pomeroy 1-11, Owen Roes 0-15.
Owen Roes Reserve team: Stephen Mc Callion, Bert Kelly, Brendan Boggs, Andrew Devine, Gavin Donaghey, Stephen Boyle, Stephen Boggs (0-1), Stephen Kelly, Mickey Kelly, Hugh Gallagher (C), Lornie Crossan (0-2), Sean Mc Bride (0-1), Malachy Gallagher (0-1), Gerard Kelly (0-8), Tom O'Neill (0-2). Subs: Joe Kelly for Gavin Donaghey, Gerry Doherty for Bert Kelly, Sean Doherty for Malachy Gallagher, Jude Kelly for Andrew Devine, Andrew Devine for Mickey Kelly.
   
In the Senior match that followed, Owen Roes almost pulled off a remarkable comeback, only to have a draw snatched away in injury time. Pomeroy opened the scoring with a point from play, then another from a free, before Declan Mc Crossan opened the Roes account with a point from a free. Pomeroy then added a further 2 points and their lead was stretched further when a defensive error let the Plunkett's in for a goal, the ball bobbling into the net in a packed goalmouth. Owen Roes however kept attacking with a further 2 points from Declan Mc Crossan and 1 from Chris Kelly. But with Pomeroy scoring 3 more points and another goal before the half time whistle, things did not look favourable in the second half for the visitors. Before half time Declan Mc Crossan switched to centre half forward with Chris Kelly taking his place in midfield. The half time score read: Pomeroy 2-7, Owen Roes 0-4. The second half started well for the Roes, with Ronan Parker unlucky to have his shot saved by the keeper, but the rebound was put over the bar by Mc Crossan. Pomeroy attacked but the Roes keeper, Sean Devine, made a good save to prevent another goal. A point from Chris Kelly was followed by 4 from Mc Crossan and one each from Parker and Aidan Mc Crossan. Owen Roes were now only 2 points behind with 28 minutes of the second half gone and injury time to play. Pomeroy scored another point, their first of this half, but then followed this up with another goal to seal the game almost 5 minutes into injury time. Owen Roes could only manage anothr point from Mc Crossan to leave the scoreline at Pomeroy 3-8, Owen Roes 0-13.
Owen Roes Senior team: Sean Devine, Paul Kelly, Kevin Doherty, Declan Bradley, James Mc Crossan, Stephen Dooher, Aidan Christy, Kevin Moore (C), Declan Mc Crossan (0-9), Aidan Mc Crossan (0-1), Chris Kelly (0-2), Paul Bradley, Mark O'Neill, Ronan Parker (0-1), Willie Doherty.

DREGISH 0-6  EOGHAIN RUA 4-15
(Friday 19th April)

On Friday night last, the Owen Roes Senior team travelled to Dregish and recorded their first win of the season. The first goal of the match came within 10 minutes from Ronan Parker. From that point the Roes never looked back as the half-time score reflects (3-10 to 0-0). The Owen Roes defence was solid throughout and the forwards and midfield operated well as a unit.

The first half was all one-way traffic, but Dregish got it together in the second half with 6 points. However,a goal from Chris Kelly finally killed off their resistance. This was an encouraging team performance from an Eoghain Rua perspective, with scores coming from 8 different players. Tom O'Neill made his Senior debut in the game and was outstanding in his running on and off the ball and with his passing.
Owen Roes: Sean Devine, Willie Doherty, Kevin Doherty, Bosco Devine, Stephen Dooher (0-1), Paul Bradley (0-1), Aidan Christy, Declan Mc Crossan (1-4), Kevin Moore (0-1), Aidan Mc Crossan, Chris Kelly (1-3), Tom O'Neill (0-1), James Mc Crossan, Ronan Parker (1-4), Stephen Boyle (1-0).
Subs: Sean Mc Bride for J. Mc Crossan.

OWEN ROE O'NEILL'S 0-7 KILLEESHIL 0-9
(SUNDAY 21ST APRIL AT GLENMORNAN)

In Sunday's game at Glenmornan, Owen Roes and Killeeshil had to field without their county players, namely Declan Mc Crossan and Kevin Hughes. However both teams still served up a close, thrilling match throughout the 60 minutes. Killeeshil made the early running, taking advantage of the strong wind and notching up a 0-4 to 0-0 lead in the first quarter. However by half-time the Leckpatrick team had pegged this back to a 1 point deficit at 0-5 to 0-6.The second half saw the Roes having the lion's share of possession but could not convert this into scores, with even the visitors managing to clear what looked certain to be a goal off their own goal-line in the last few minutes. Again as in other matches this year, Owen Roes have saved their best football to last but it comes too late, almost salvaging matches in the last quarter.
Half-time Score: 0-5 to 0-6; Full-Time Score: 0-7 to 0-9.
Owen Roes: Sean Devine, Declan Bradley, Kevin Doherty, Bosco Devine, Stephen Dooher, Paul Bradley, Aidan Christy, Kevin Moore (0-1), Chris Kelly (0-1), Willie Doherty, Aidan Mc Crossan (0-1), Tom O'Neill, James Mc Crossan, Ronan Parker (0-3), Stephen Boyle (0-1).
Subs: Paddy Mc Nulty (0-1) for S. Boyle, Mark O'Neill for J. Mc Crossan.  (Man of the Match: Paul Bradley)

Friday 21st June: Owen Roes 1-4 Gortin 0-7

Sunday 23rd June: Tattyreagh 2-8 Owen Roes 2-9

Harps Progress at Roes Expense

Friday 9th August: Owen Roes 0-10 Stewartstown 1-8

Tyrone Intermediate Championship First Round

In Gortin, Stewartstown had just a single point to spare over Owen Roes, the Harps recording a 1-8 to 0-10 win. Conor Hamill, Darragh Burns and Declan Mitchell were the key players for Stewartstown and it was the latter who grabbed the winning goal two minutes from the end. The absence of Tyrone star, Declan McCrossan, with a broken leg was a major setback for Owen Roes.

Derrylaughan 1-15 Owen Roes 0-4

(Sunday 28th Sept 2002)

Owen Roes found the going tough away to a well-placed Derrylaughan side but it was only in the second half that the Kevin Barrys began to pull clear.
A fairly low-scoring first period ended with Derrylaughan in front at 1-3 to 0-3 after a Brian Daly goal approaching the half-time whistle, Aidan McCrossan with a couple of points at the other end.
The picture changed somewhat in the second 30 minutes as the home side chalked up a flurry of scores, including points from Leon McKee and Thomas Carney to mention two.
Scorers - Derrylaughan - Leon McKee 0-5, Tom Carney 0-4, Brian Daly 1-1, Enda Cushnahan 0-3, Brendan Quinn 0-2
Owen Roes - Aidan McCrossan 0-3, Ronan Parker 0-1

Owen Roes 0-16 Aghaloo 1-4

(Sunday 13th Oct 2002)

Owen Roes recorded a big win at home to new Paddy Cullen Cup champions Aghaloo but with only twelve points they will face a tough time this weekend in trying to preserve their Division Two status.
The host men led at the half-time break by 0-6 to 0-2 but a penalty ten minutes after the restart converted by Stephen Donnelly put Aghaloo in closer contention.
Ronan Parker, scorer of five points on the day, Aidan McCrossan and others soon got back the Roes back on track with a string of points and they ran out good winners.
Owen Roes Scorers- Ronan Parker 0-5, Aidan McCrossan 0-4, Chris Kelly 0-4, Sean Og Devine 0-2, Paddy McNulty 0-1
Aghaloo Scorers- Stephen Donnelly 1-2, Martin McCarron 0-1, Sean Douglas 0-1

Owen Roes 0-11 Rock 0-8

(Sunday 20th Oct 2002)

CHRIS Kelly scored seven points to crown a splendid display at midfield for Owen Roes but for Kelly and his team-mates it was to be in vain given other results on the day.

The Roes, victors over championship winners Aghaloo the previous weekend and who had to play without Declan McCrossan for several matches due to injury, finished just one point away from a play-off place with all the teams immediately above them winning their final matches.
Rock won the league title because of their overall consistency but on this occasion they met a determined Roes team who led by 0-6 to 0-5 at half-time and although Ciaran Gourley equalised after the restart the home side refused to let things slip.
Kelly had some super points and despite Martin McCreesh converting six frees all told Rock could not turn it around, Owen Roes left to ponder what might have been had all hands been.

Owen Roes - Chris Kelly 0-7, Ronan Parker 0-2, Paddy McNulty 0-1, Sean Og Devine 0-1
Rock - Martin McCreesh 0-6, Darren Mullan 0-1, Ciaran Gourley 0-1