Hollywood continue impressive form of late to take the points against Ryston

Hollywood’s Division 3 team were far from impressive in the early rounds of the league, only picking up eight points in their first six matches. Relegated from Division 2 last year they looked in real trouble in this division also, lingering very close to the bottom of the table.

In Round 7 at home against Kilcullen they showed a vast improvement in form to take all five points in that match. Coming to Newbridge to take on Ryston in this latest assignment in the Ryston Sports and Social Centre they would be hoping to continue that form of late to further enhance their position in the table.

Ryston also having been relegated from Division 2 last year started off their season in pretty much reasonable form, but of late have really dropped back alarmingly and now find they’re propping up the table lying second from the bottom.

Admittedly having lost some good players in the last year certainly has not helped their cause. Having home advantage they would be feeling confident of taking something from this game, especially having shocked Caragh in their last home game by taking three of the five points on offer.

Poor Start

Mat 1 was a close game for most of the way, but the visitors were always in front having got a good start leading by seven scores to nil after four ends. The home team fought back to reduce the margin to three by the tenth end and it was ‘nip and tuck’ from there to the fourteenth end, and the gap was down to two scores (11/9) in favour of visitors. But in the last end a score of four closed out the game for Hollywood to finish up with a scoreline of 15/9. The poor start by Ryston was probably their undoing as they were playing a catch up game for the rest of the match, but after saying that, Hollywood deserved their victory as they were the better team on the night.

Ryston: Eileen Kelly, Kathleen Moran, Harry McDonald and Gerry Tansey.

Hollywood: Seamus Doyle, Olive Houlihan, Kevin Byrne and Tony Hogan.

Foregone Conclusion

Mat 2 was a foregone conclusion from early on, as Hollywood were completely on top from the start. At no time did it look as if Ryston would produce a challenge to the visitors. It was all so easy for Hollywood that it was only a matter of what the finishing margin would be.

Regardless of the result Ryston will be utterly disappointed with their display in this one, as they just did not compete on the night.

Ryston: Mary Doran, Jim McGrath, Mervyn Molyneaux and Michael Swan.

Hollywood: Carmel Tutty, Gerardine Malone, Peter Byrne and Padraig Metcalfe.