Killala U-13’s kept their league ambitions alive but just about after they emerged victorious after a 1-0 win away to Partry Athletic this Wednesday evening.
Killala lost thier captain Keith Higgins, and defensive linchpin, after only a minute had been played due to an ongoing knee injury that forced him off the field.
Killala made the breakthrough after 5 minutes when Killala’s Nathan Browne put in a cross from the right hand side that somehow found its way through a bunch of players to find Kieran Lally who poked the ball home.
It turned out to be what could be a vital goal in Killala’s league campaign because it was end to end football for the remainder of the match.
Although there were very few shots on target from either team both goalkeepers dealt with them comfortably with Killala’s keeper being slightly the busier.
What was an enthraling game for the local supporters to watch it left both sets of managers biting their nails and ruing missed chances especially Killala’s Kyle McLoughlin who’s shot agonisingly wide late in the 2nd half.
Partry to thier credit threw everything except the kitchen sink at Killala including the goalkeeper but the defense held firm.
Killala Team: D Walsh, R McGuire, C Mooney, D Lawlor, K Higgins, A Kenny, K Healy, N Browne, K McLoughlin, S McAndrew & K Lally.
Subs: A Kearney for K Higgins (1st Minute), D Collins for A Kearney (55 Minutes), B Lawlor for D Collins (63 Minutes), C McHale, P O’Donnell

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Killala U-16 traveled to Claremorris hoping to retain their 3rd place in the league but it just wasn’t to be.
Claremorris opened the scoring after just 2 minutes after a defensive error allowed one of the Claremorris strikers through to round the Killala keeper and slot the ball home.
However for the rest of the game Killala pounded the Claremorris goal which will need a new paint job after being struck 3 times in the first half and 6 times in the second not including a venemous strike by Killala’s Mattie Kane which had the Claremorris keeper well beat but shook both posts.
The home side went in at half time shocked to be 1-0 up.
Killala piled on even more pressure in the 2nd half and were denied an equaliser by the Claremorris goalkeeper (man of the match) who pulled off superb saves to deny Killala’s Jason Carroll, Ryan Sweeney, Cian Noone, James Noone, Daragh O’Boyle, Simon Helly & Mattie Kane.
Killala pushed and probed for the equaliser and left just Cian Monaghan and Eoin O’Neill in defense to handle the non existant Claremorris attack but it was just one of those days when deep into injury time Claremorris cleared one of Killala’s 12 corners and with their only decent passing movements of the game punished Killala with the final score of the game to have it finish 2-0 to the home side.
Both teams left the pitch scratching their heads at the score for different reasons.
Killala team: J. Flannelly, P. Murphy, C.Monaghan, J. Carroll, E. O’Neill, J. Noone, D.Haugh, C.Noone, M.Kane, D.O’Boyle and S.Helly. Subs: R.Sweeny for D.Haugh (50 min)

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Killala signed off their Div1 campaign at home with a 4-2 win over second placed Mulrany Utd at Courthouse St on Sunday. Despite going a goal down after only 5 mi the home side attacked at every opportunity and good chances were spurned by John Clarke, Johnny McNulty & Rory Gallagher to level the match before the break. The second half saw a more positive and confident looking Kilala side but the visitors, needing a win to wait in the championship race, were defending their lead with a passion. With a half an hour to go A Roy Gallagher corner found the net and the game came to life. The next goal would be crucial and Killala mounted waves of attack to seek the winner but with 18 minutes left on the clock it was Mulranny who hit the front when a mix up in the home defense let them in to score and go ahead once again. With the game going into the last ten minutes it looked like mulranny were going to bring the title race to the last day but then a goal from captain Johnny McNulty and a wonder goal from Rory Gallagher to complete his fourth hatrick of the campaign put Killala 4-2 in front and sparked celebrations in the town that will last well into the week.

Killala team Sean McHale, Aidan Ferguson, Eamopn Knox, Oliver Clarke, Matt Webb, Marc McDonnell, John Clarke, Ian O’Boyle, Kevin Whyte, Johnny Mcnulty , Rory Gallagher Subs Ronan Heffron, Brendan Ryan, David Cadden

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An early goal from captain Johnny McNulty set the tone in this hard fought match. John Clarke grabbed the second with a fine solo run and Killala could have been further ahead but the woodwork denied Ronan Heffron his goal. The home side pulled one back before the break, but a Heffo strike at the start of the new half gave the visitors back their cushion. Sean McHale saved a penalty late on to keep KK at bay put the 3 hard earned points were in the bag and there is only 2 games to go. Team Sean McHale, Matt Webb, Eamonn Knox, Oliver Clarke, David Cadden, Ian O’Boyle, Marc McDonnell, John Clarke, Alan Murphy, Johnny McNulty, Ronan Heffron, Subs Brendan Ryan, Aidan Ferguson & Brendan McNulty

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A poor start by the visitors let Moy villa snatch an early goal and try as they may , they chased the equaliser for the rest of the game and despite , Johnny McNulty striking the woodwork, and Ollie Clarke heading over the 3 points slipped away. Killala team : Sean McHale, Matt Webb, Shane Whyte, Ollie Clarke, David Cadden, Marc McDonnell, Ian O,Boyle, Alan Murphy, John Clarke, Rory Gallagher, Johnny McNulty Subs Ronan Heffron, Brendan Ryan, Brendan McNulty

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KILLALA U10 GIRLS TRAVELLED TO MILEBUSH LAST SATURDAY 14TH AUGUST TO TAKE PART IN AN U10 BLITZ ORGANISED BY MAYO FA. SIX TEAMS TOOK PART IN THIS FIVE A SIDE BLITZ. KILLALA LOST TO MANULLA IN THE FIRST GAME 2-1 IN A VERY EXCITING AND CLOSE GAME. AFTER THAT LOSS THE BLUE AND YELLOW OF KILLALA PROVED TOO STRONG FOR THE OTHER TEAMS, BEATING CASTLEBAR 7-1, CLAREMORRIS 3-1, CASTLEBAR 5-0 AND BALLINA 2-0, THUS ALLOWING ALL MEMBERS OF THE SQUAD TO GET A RUN OUT IN EVERY MATCH. THE CLUB WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL PARENTS WHO TRAVELLED TO CASTLEBAR TO SUPPORT THE PLAYERS. KILLALA SQUAD: MARIA MCHALE, ALVA MUNNELLY, CHLOE SWEENEY, AISLING O’HORA, CLIODHNA FITZMAURICE, ERIN LYNOTT, NATASHA BOURKE, EMMA SWEENEY, MAJELLA O’BOYLE AND LAURA MCCORMACK.

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Killala U-13 entertained Snugboro United this evening and it was allways going to be a close affair seeing as 3 weeks ago Killala emerged Victorious at Snugboro in a narrow 4-3 win.
As the old saying goes football is definately a game of 2 half’s with very little seperating the 2 sides after the first 35 minutes and only for some fine defending by both sides both teams going in scoreless at half time.
The introduction of Anthony Kearney at half time paid immediate reward after the Killala player beat 3 defenders and struck the ball sweetly to give the home side the lead.
After that the flood gates opened up with 2 goals from Killala’s Kevin Healy and 1 apiece for Kyle McLoughlin, Shane McAndrew, Kieran Lally and Rory McGuire making the final score 7-0 with most being set up by man of the match Nathan Browne who terrorised Snugboro down the right wing.
Killala are now joint top of the league and now with 5 wins in a row seem like the form side in the division.
Team:Declan Walsh, Peter Lynott (Padraic O’Donnell 65min), Connor Mooney (Brian Lawlor 50min), David Lawlor, Keith Higgins, Kevin Healy (Tom Dempsey 65 min), Alan Kenny (Kieran Lally 40min), Caelan Dorris (Anthony Kearney 35min), Kyle McLoughlin, Shane McAndrew (Domnick Dempsey 50min), Nathan Browne and Rory McGuire replacing the injured Domnick Dempsey after 60 min.

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Killala U-13 boys made it 4 wins in a row this evening with an impressive 3-1 win against Castlebar Town .
After a tight opening 20 minutes Killala midfielder Kevin Healy broke the deadlock with a well taken free kick from just outside the box, it was a well deserved lead as Killala had the lions share of possession and were unlucky to go in at half time only one nil up.
The second half saw Killala pile pressure on the visitors with Kieran Lally, Kevin Healy and Kyle McLoughlin all going close to extending Killala’s lead.
The Home team got rewarded for their persistance when man of the match Kieran Lally got the first of his 2 headed goals 15 min into the second half with the other coming 10 min from time. Castlebar fought on and claimed a consulation goal at the death.
Team: Craig McCormick, Connor Mooney, Padraic O’Donnell, David Lawlor, Keith Higgins (C), Alan Kenny, Kevin Healy, Nathan Browne, Kyle McLoughlin, Anthony Kearney & Kieran Lally.
Subs: Domnick Dempsey for Nathan Browne. Shane McAndrew for Anthony Kearney. Brian Lawlor for Padraic O’Donnell & Tom Dempsey for Alan Kenny

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An easy win over bottom side Inver Utd consilidated the home sides 5 point lead at the top of Div.1. An early wonder goal from Rory Gallagher his 18th of the season and a contender for one of his best, set the tone for this big win. Another Gallagher goal and one from Marc McDonnell gave the Killala lads a halftime lead of 3-0. Complaceny set in during the opening period of the second half and sloppy play by Killala allowed Inver back into the game and with one of their raids on the homeside goal the a shot from the angle of the box ended up in the side netting and amid claims from the Inver players the referee order a goal kick. From this Shane Whyte punt up the pitch Gallagher won the ball and outpaced the visitors defence to claim his hatrick or so he thought. as the kickoff by Inver was about to be taken the protests were still ongoing about the incident at the other end and Inver were claimimg a goal from that. The referee then  decided to award the goal to Inver and chalk off the Killala goal, from 4-0 to 3-1 what a bizzare decision. This incident didnt knock Killala off their stride and Gallagher eventually registered his hat rick moments later. He grabbed a fourth and his 21st goal of the season with 15 minutes to play and further goals from Martin McLoughlin, Alan Murphy and Brendan Ryan completed the rout.  Team : Sean McHale, Matt Webb, David Cadden, Oliver Clarke, Shane Whyte, Marc McDonnell, Ian O’Boyle, John Clarke, Alan Murphy, Rory Gallagher, Ronan Heffron, Subs Brendan Ryan & Martin McLouglin

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