An Riocht made it three wins in a row with a one point victory over Bryansford at Dunavil. A tricky cross field win made it difficult for the players and scores were hard to come by.

In the sixth minute Gerard Morgan advanced with the ball from defence before slipping it on to Brian Burns who placed Shane King on the overlap and from close range King hit the net to put Ford 1:1 to nil ahead.

An Riocht were slow to settle and played themselves into trouble on occasions at the back, Joe Mc Veigh rescuing one particularly dangerous situation with a great block.

Twelve minutes were played when Sean Paul Smith opened our scoring from a free. Paddy Cole who came on for the injured Kevin Flanagan clipped over another. Neil Doran and Smith leveled things by the twentieth minute, Smiths a particularly special effort with the outside of his right boot from a narrow angle on the left.

Colm Kearney burst into the match when he won a penalty but Gavin Finnegan was up to Shane Kings spot kick and went full length to turn it away, his second penalty save in two matches.

Kearney got in again but drove the ball wide before in the next attack he pointed Ford into the lead.

At the break An Riocht trailed 1:3 to 0:4.

We were the better team on the restart but it took a quarter hour to draw level at seven all.

Further points from Kieran mc Veigh and Barry Annett put us ahead for the first time with five minutes to play.

A point from Conor Gribben left the result on a knife edge entering added time and King pointed a free to level it in the sixty third minute.

However there was still time for Smith to point his fourth and secure a narrow but deserved victory.

Best wishes to Brendan for a full and speedy recovery.