Teemore captured the U14 ‘B’ Championship title on Tuesday evening at a sun kissed Belnaleck, with the young Shamrocks side putting in a tremendous second half showing to run out comfortable 15 point winners at the end.

Belcoo actually got off to a bright start with Shane Doherty lofting over a great score to hand Belcoo an early lead on four minutes, although Teemore responded soon after with a free from Nathan McAdam before Kyle Fitzpatrick fired to the roof of the net at the third attempt to nudge Teemore into an early 1-01 to 0-01 lead after nine minutes.

Jack McGann and Louis Donohoe then added further scores to the Teemore tally before the Shamrocks added a second goal on the 16th minute, this time Fitzpatrick turned provider to play a superb ball into the path of Aaron McManus who made no mistake to send Teemore comfortably into a lead of 2-03 to 0-01. Rian McNally followed up by confidently driving forward and sending the ball over the bar and all of a sudden Teemore seemed to be running away with the contest.

Full credit though to Belcoo who were getting through a lot of defensive work and in Dermot Burns and Conor McAloon had two real livewire forwards who kicked good points when under pressure to give Belcoo hope.

Fergal Donohoe added a further score for Teemore before Belcoo finished the half strongly with Shane Doherty finding the net in the 27th minute and Conor McAloon pointing from a difficult left angle to make it 2-05 to 1-04 in favour of Teemore at half time.

Teemore started the second half in quite spectacular fashion with 2-03 in the opening five minutes which really put the game to bed and certainly out of the reaches of Belcoo.

Nathan McAdam swung over two excellent points before the same player fired low into the bottom corner of the goal to send Teemore nine points clear. Teemore though weren’t finished with the scoring yet and Christy Donohoe soon tagged over a point before Nathan McAdam, who was a constant thorn in the Belcoo defence, bagged himself another goal after Liam Donohoe had played a superb ball into the full forward line to push Teemore 4-08 to 1-04 ahead.

Belcoo, who had chances to add scores, were time after time met by a wall of green and white defenders and were finding the going tough but in Conor McAloon they have a player with real substance and he fired over to give the Belcoo side some hope in the last ten minutes of the contest.

Teemore though soon replied with Oisin Murphy and Louis Donohoe both adding points before Belcoo, who could only manage two points in the second half, had Oran McCann to thank for a well struck point from 30 yards out to make it 4-10 to 1-06 with time nearly up.

McAdam helped himself to two further points as Teemore finished the stronger side and on their second half showing alone were worthy champions at the end.

Best for Teemore were defenders Fergal and Liam Donohoe, while in the middle brothers Dara and Aaron McManus worked well and got through a mountain of work. Up front for the Shamrocks they were best served by Oisin Murphy and of course Nathan McAdam.

Belcoo will, of course, be disappointed with the final result but can take great heart from some top class individual performances with goalkeeper Dara Flanagan pulling off some top class saves, while in defence Oisin O’Loughlin and Emmet McGuinness performed well. In the forward division Shane Doherty and Conor McAloon were the top performers for the O’Rahillys.