Hollywood show no mercy to lowly placed Allen in KWWIBA

Not a easy trip or venue for any team but it was Allen’s turn for their away match to travel to the Hollywood Community Hall to take on the Hollywood in this Division 1 Rd. 11 on Friday February 2.

Hollywood have been doing very well in the campaign so far, holding 4th position from the top at the moment, and hoping to advance further up the table. Their record in every match has been pretty impressive, coming away from every round with some points. The nearest they came to stumbling was their away match against Castlemitchell, but they still managed to salvage a point from that game.

The Allen team never really got out of the blocks in this league. From the beginning they were struggling to find any kind of form. They have here and there gathered a few points to try and keep their hopes alive of avoiding the dreaded drop from the top division. It is very difficult to pinpoint what has gone wrong. They have without doubt a bunch of quality players on the team, but they are not playing like the Allen team of old. Sitting third from the bottom coming into this game they could do with a few badly needed points. A big ask playing in the ‘lions den’ especially when they’re not playing to their true form.

The Game

As far as the game went it proved to be a one-sided affair. Hollywood were quickly into their stride on mat 1. After five ends the home side had nine scores to their credit while Allen hadn’t registered a single score up to that point. You certainly cannot give a team like Hollywood that much leeway and expect to haul them in on their own ground. On the next end Allen opened their account with a score of one, but unfortunately they didn’t follow it up on the next end. Things didn’t get any better for the visitors as their opponents piled on the scores to ease to an easy win.

On mat 2 Allen were holding their own for about six ends and were well in contention of causing an upset. That was as good as it got for them, as they failed to score on those last nine ends and Hollywood showed no mercy as they cantered to a very easy victory.

Hollywood now move up to third place while Allen now find themselves in a very precarious situation. With six more rounds to play to complete the league it is possible for them to redeem themselves and move away from that danger area, especially having three of those rounds at home, but a big improvement is needed.

Overall Allen played reasonably well, but to compete with the likes of Hollywood they need to up the ante and get back to the form, ability and skill we all know they possess.

Mat 1; Hollywood: Kevin Byrne, Stephen Daly, Jason Hand and Mick Daly.

Allen: Mary Brennan, Concepta Mullally, Denis Lyons and Ann McCormack.

Mat 2; Hollywood: Bríd Burke, Tommy Richardson, Tom Burke and Tomás Richardson.