An Riocht lost our opening league fixture in Rostrevor twelve points to eleven. A poor first half left too much to do in the second though a valiant effort just fell short.

Reds dominated the opening quarter and went three nil ahead through quick delivery to a nippy forward division and a stranglehold at mid field.
An Riocht settled to draw level, a memorable point by our top player Adrian Annett making it four all, before Rostrevor took a two point advantage into the break.

They doubled that to four on the restart before we finally saw some great play by our team and soon we were tied at eight points apiece. Then it was ten all. A good save by Brendan Mc Veigh resulted in a forty five which Conor Daly converted and he made it twelve ten from play moments later.

Kevin Flanagan with the score of the game left the minimum in it and a late chance to equalize was blocked out as Reds held out for a just about deserved victory.

Team:
B Mc Veigh; C Flanagan, L Mc Veigh, D O’ Reilly; J Mc Veigh, J Lavery, A Annett(1); P Murney, A Flanagan(1); Jim Clarke, John Clarke(7), M Harper; C Walsh, A Cunningham, K Mc Veigh(1). Subs K Flanagan(1), B Annett, J Colgan, P Cole.

Rostrevor scorers C Daly 5, M Cole 2, L Parr 1, B Cole 1, J Austin 1, E Magee 1, C Mackin 1.

The match was well refereed by Peter Branagan.