NAFL 1C
Barn Utd 0 Castlewellan Town 6
CASTLEWELLAN Town began their new intermediate journey on Saturday with a trip to Haslett Park in Carrickfergus and soon picked up where they left off last season by securing all three points.
Opponents Barn Utd were relegated from NAFL 1B last season while Castlewellan celebrated the 2A title win, but it was a fresh start and new season for both, and it was the visitors who more than made an impression.
There has been some change in the Castlewellan Town ranks over the summer, with a new management team led by Glynn Robinson now at the helm, and while the impressive Rhys Clarke may have departed for Kilmore, goals still seem to be the order of the day, as a hat trick apiece for Ruairi Croskery and Ryan McCullagh ensure normal service has resumed for the men in green.
Indeed, it was last year’s top scorer Croskery who would open the scoring from the spot to make it 1-0, and in doing so, scoring the clubs first ever intermediate football goal.
One quickly became three when a quickfire double from McCullagh and then Croskery made it 3-0. Two great team goals with the Castlewellan men firmly on top and quickly settling into 1C football.
Just after the half hour mark, McCullagh grabbed his second of the game to made it 4-0, and that’s the way it stayed until the end of the half.
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