Junior Greenwood 1 UCC 1 - Greenwood win 4-2 on pens

Greenwood took the penalty shoot-out route to victory after a 1-1 tie with UCC in the City Challenge Cup. Denis O' Brien and Mark Kelleher starred for Greenwood. Greenwood took the lead early in the second half when Ross O' Donovan powerfully headed home a Michael Cronin corner. Brendan McCarthy was the shoot-out hero for Greenwood, saving two penalties. Encouragingly for Greenwood's future, the team had three of last year's youths and four of the current youths team.

Report courtesy of Evening Echo

Ladies U16 - Greenwood 1 Buttevant 1

Greenwood played Buttevant in a top of the league clash last sunday. It was a hard, physical game with buttevant scoring very early from a corner kick. Greenwood fought back with Leona Buckley and Aisling McDonnell playing great games in the midfield. Greenwood were awarded a penalty in the second half and Katie Foley put it into the back of the net. Greenwood played a much better second half and were unlucky with another few shots on goal. Tracy O Neill, Emma Kerins and Gillian Holland all played well.

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Weekend Results

Junior Glen Celtic 3 Greenwood 2
Youth Greenwood 0 Clonmel 2
u11 Buttevant 1 Greenwood 3
Ladies Passage 3 Greenwood 4

Greenwood Ladies U-16 4 Passage 3

The Greenwood Girls came out on top after a very tense, close and hard fought game against Passage. It was goal for goal throughout the game, with Passage missing a penalty in the dying minutes and then Leona Buckley broke through the defense and scored the winner. Great game by Leona Buckley on the day who scored a hat trick. Aishling Mcdonnell had a great game in the midfield as did Valerie O Connell. Alisha Cremins played well up front. Sarah Hegarty replaced an injured Laura Breen and scored the third goal.
All in all a good days work by the girls. This win puts them back up on top of the league.

Munster Youth Cup Semi Final Draw

LUCOZADE SPORT MUNSTER YOUTH CUP

Semi Final Draw

Greenwood or Clonmel Town v Cork City or Fairview Rgs

Knockainey or Waterford Crystal v Togher Celtic or Bohemians

Games to take place on or before 12^th / 13^th April 2008.

Venues to be decided by the MFA

Weekend Results

Junior Greenwood 3 Ballintotis 1 (Match Abandoned)
Youth Greenwood 1 Kilmallock 0
U17 Leeside - Knockraha 4 Greenwood 4
u14a Strand United 8 Greenwood 1
u12 Greenwood 1 Springfield 1
u12a Greenwood 0 Everton 2

Munster Youth Cup - Greenwood 1 Kilmallock 0

Greenwood advanced to a quarter-final tie with Clonmel Town in the Munster Youths Cup with a tight win over Kilmallock at Clashduv Park.

James O'Sullivan grabbed the crucial goal as Greenwood had to battle hard to overcome an energetic Kilmallock side 1-0 in the fourth round of the

Munster Youth Cup at Clashduv Road last Saturday.

As predicted, this tie certainly lived up to expectations. It was a hard and competitive affair between two sides that were well up for the occasion.

Kilmallock will be extremely disappointed for a number of reasons. Both Ruairi O'Shaughnessy and Graeme Mulcahy missed two gilt-edged chances in the first half and when goalkeeper Bobbie Egan dropped a clanger by failing to hold a routine cross from Michael Cronin, O'Sullivan was on hand to pick his spot for the winner in the 73rd minute.

Inter league player Daniel Sweeney was outstanding for Greenwood. He defended when he had to – he won the tackles in midfield before setting up his colleagues with some decent passes and when the opportunity arose, he helped out in attack.

Kilmallock had some quality players also on show. Mulcahy showed plenty of class in the middle along with Peter Ryan. Up front, O'Shaughnessy was very dangerous and posed a huge threat each time he had possession of the ball. Greenwood lacked such a figure in this area and as a result, a lot of their midfielder's hard work went to waste due to the level of impotency in their attack.

Nevertheless, it is goals that win games and after Greenwood achieved what was asked of them - they now find themselves in the quarter-final of this competition.

Both sides looked a little uptight and nervous starting out with a lot of passes going astray and this was evident when Kevin McCarthy fired well over from outside the box after the ball broke kindly for him in the opening minutes.

Greenwood were having the edge over the first 20 minutes or so but their obvious lack of firepower up front showed again when McCarthy did good work on the left before firing an inviting delivery in towards the near post, but no-one showed up to anticipate the cross as Killmallock's goalkeeper picked with ease.

The miss of the game came about when a mix up in the Greenwood defence allowed Mulcahy in on an open goal. But to everyone's amazement, the Kilmallock midfielder struck his effort wide of the unprotected target from 15 yards out to waste an unbelievable opportunity. Greenwood composed themselves fairly promptly but when McCarthy swung a marvellous cross into the danger area, no one came to support in attack and the Kilmallock defence cleared the threat comfortably.

Greenwood forced a corner on the left and after Dan Sweeney's thumping header was blocked by Connor Moloney; Denis O'Brien delayed with the re-bound while in a good position and the chance went.

Kilmallock were showing rapid signs of coming more into the game and should have gone in front but O'Shaughnessy missed a tremendous opportunity when he looked on in disbelief as his effort drifted agonisingly wide of the upright with the advancing Shane Harrington beaten.

Greenwood started brightly in the second half but had a let-off when Benni Burke's thumping strike came back off the upright before going away to safety. Apart from this effort, the rest of the game immersed itself into a hard, combative battle with a lot of hustle and bustle but without any clear-cut chance being created by either side.

In the end, Greenwood ran out as victors and can now look forward to a quarter-final clash with Clonmel Town next Saturday at the same venue.

GREENWOOD: Shane Harrington, Mark Twomey, James O'Sulllvan, Aidan Hickey, Denis O'Brien, Michael Cronin, Niall Calnan, Daniel Sweeney, Aidan Long, Kevin McCarthy, Wayne O'Callaghan.

Report courtesy of Barry Peelo & Evening Echo