Ballinasloe Town Afc

BTAFC AUTUMN 🍂 BINGO

Date for your Diary 📔

Our U14 A side were out again in Premier 2 action this evening starting the season with two games in quick succession.

Ballinasloe were excellent, especially in the second half, and ran out deserved winners 5-1 in their first home game of the season in the Curragh grounds.

Moyne Villa, to their credit, started well and went in front early with a goal after 10 mins played.

Ballinasloe responded brilliantly to the early setback and produced some lovely passing moves and were very unlucky not to score after a number of close efforts and striking the woodwork on a couple of occasions.

The all important equaliser came on the stroke of halftime with Andrew Corcoran firing a brilliant left foot finish from the edge of the box to the bottom corner to make it 1-1at halftime.

This would prove to be the turning point of the game with Ballinasloe coming out and dominating proceedings in the second half.

Some brilliant attacking play was on display and Ballinasloe going forward were a constant threat.

Goals from Oisin o Flaharta, Cian Casey and two more from the hat trick man Corcoran meant Ballinasloe were deserved winners on a scoreline of 5-1.

Best for Ballinasloe Town tonight were Aloijzy
Florek,Igor Sadecki,Emily Mae Llyod and Cian Casey⚫️🟡

MOTM today has to go to Andrew Corcoran who scored 3 great goals to grab himself a hat-trick 👏👏⚫️🟡

Andrew Corcoran⚽️⚽️⚽️
Cian Casey⚽️
Oisin o Flaharta⚽️

⚽ BTAFC U14B MATCH REPORT ⚽

The Ballinasloe B Team took to the field for their first home game of the season against a resilient Maree/Oranmore side, with the home team coming out 2–0 winners on the night. 👏🖤💛

The first half was a very evenly matched affair, with Ballinasloe enjoying a little more possession, but neither goalkeeper was really tested as both backlines stood firm and refused to let anything through.

The second half started much the same, but after around 10 minutes Ballinasloe began to put a real foothold on the game. Tommy and Aran started winning the midfield battles, while the three boys up front were putting serious pressure on the Oranmore back four.

Their pressure finally paid off with around 15 minutes remaining, as Aran Mannion produced a fine strike from the right wing to break the deadlock. ⚽️⚽️

Oranmore then had a great one-on-one opportunity, but Nathan came racing off his line and made a fantastic foot tackle to block the ball and keep Ballinasloe in front. 🧤👏

Ballinasloe kicked on again and were rewarded with a fine second goal from Iarlaith Hurley, his second goal of the season. ⚽️

Oranmore came again looking for a way back into the game, but the Ballinasloe back four remained resilient and secured their second clean sheet in their first two games. 👏👏

There were some great performances from all the players on the night, but the Man of the Match was a very close call between Daniel Fallon and Jack Mannion, who were both outstanding from start to finish. 💪⭐

Full-time: BTAFC 2–0 Maree/Oranmore 🖤💛

Well done to all the squad members and management on a fantastic start to the season! 👏⚽️

BTAFC Midweek The Galway Football Association Fixtures

NEW PLAYERS WANTED U16s GIRLS ALL INFO IN POSTER BELOW TKS

🏆 Ballinasloe Town AFC are delighted to be hosting the Womens Over 35s Division 1 final between Knocnacarra afc and Colemanstown Fc Monday Aug 30th

🥅 If last weeks ladies final is anything to go by this should be a cracker

🗣️ All support greatly appreciated.

U14cs drew 4 all with St. Bernard's. We went 3 up but then St. Bernard's scored 4 goals to take the lead. We fought back, equalised and were pushing hard fot the winner. All 4 goals scored by Tiernan Hogan.

Under 16 Championship

Bsloe Town 4 Mervue 2

Dylan ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Noah ⚽️

The town kicked off the new season with a hard fought win against a very competitive Mervue side.
The game kicked off on a rain drenched pitch and it was the town who settled quickly and took the lead on 7 minutes through Dylan. Bsloe kept the pressure on and were rewarded with a second on 20 minutes through Dylan again. Mervue began to get into the game after this and only some good defending from Logan, Sean, Mickie and Diarmuid and a couple of neat saves from Camo kept the score at 2 nil going into the break.
The half time break served Mervue very well and they started the second half with a lot more purpose and quickly pulled a goal back early on. Tails up now Mervue pushed for the equaliser but found Camo in great form making a series of crucial saves. This settled the town down and they got their 2 goal cushion back with a neat finish from Noah. Another clearance from Diarmuid came to Dylan and he confidently completed his hat trick. To their credit Mervue kept going and pulled 1 back near the finish

The final scoreline
Bsloe Town 4 Mervue 2.

A great start for the town with some solid performances from Camo, Logan and Liam but motm must go to Dylan whose pace and direct running leading to his hat trick was the difference today.

Weekend The Galway Football Association Results

BTAFC U 14 B team took to the field for the Opening game of the Season in Division 2 against Colemanstown away. Back to back promotions for this team over the last two seasons winning the league on both occasions. So a big step up to another division.

Town started strongly from the kick off and put pressure on the Colemantowns defense and were rewarded with an early goal after 4 minutes when the keeper saved Harry's shot but Iarlaith followed it in to tap it home.

Town continued to play football, didn't let the home team have many efforts on goal Paddy, Daniel, Jack M and Orin winning their tackles and clearing their lines.

A strong midfield display from Reece and Kyle cause all sorts of problems on the wings getting at the defense and crossing great balls in. Tommy and Aaron in the center saw town dominant on the ball and created several scoring opportunities. Aaron Rocke coming closest with a sweet strike from outside the box come back off the crossbar.

However they were rewarded on 21 minutes when Harry found the back of the net, and again just on the stroke of halftime.

Colemantowns came out fighting in the second half and unlucky not to get a goal back when Nathan came out but didn't fully claim it diving at the no 7s feet allowed them to get a strike away but a excellent reaction save.

Introduction of Noah, brought some more life to town. And 10 minutes into the second half Tommy was awarded a goal. A deserved goal from a captains performance 👏

Colemantowns kept fighting to get a goal back and a ball over the top saw their fast no 7 bearing down on goal only to be denied by another excellent 1 on 1 save from Nathan.

10 minutes later Noah was played through on goal but opted to lay it on a plate for Harry to tap home his hat trick. Aaron Broderick and Aaron Mannions introduction only added more to the game with Aaron B getting himself on the score sheet and Aaron M working tirelessly throughout.

Colemantowns 0
BTAFC 6

Back at home on Tuesday evening where we will welcome Maree/Oranmore at 6.30.

Thanks to Colemantowns for hosting us in their excellent facilities. We look forward to seeing you back home later in the season.