Goals bonanza as US-bound Ciaran Moore signs off with Duleek
Duleek recorded a thumping win away to local rivals Kentstown Rovers on Thursday night in what was Ciaran Moore's last game for the club.
The 21-year-old former Dundalk U19s player is heading to the US and has been a key man for the Tollstone side since he joined from Glebe North this season.
This victory extends Duleek's unbeaten run to seven games, six of which were wins. They have a six-point lead at the top of the table, but Parkvilla, the side emerging as the biggest threat, have three games in hand.
The visitors hit the front on two minutes when Sean Kennedy broke down the left and played through Jayden Clarke who fired low into the far corner.
Kentstown hit back three minutes later, direct from a free kick, and after that the sides exchanged chances, with Kentstown going closest before Jayden Clarke played a ball in from the right which was turned home by the deftest of flicks from Josh O'Reilly - 2-1 to Duleek on 28 minutes.
Then two Karl Dyas goals in first-half stoppage time gave the visitors a commanding lead. A long ball into the Rovers box was half cleared to Dyas who rolled in the first goal on 46 minutes. Then, from the restart, Duleek won back possession and Matthew Noone released Dyas who sent the keeper the wrong way.
Both sides made changes early in the second half and Kentstown struck first. Having hit the post a minute earlier, the hosts scored from the edge of the box although amid calls for an offside.
The game then got interesting on 64 minutes when Kentstown made it a one-goal game, forcing the ball home at the back post after a free kick wasn't properly dealt with by the visitors' defence.
That nervousness, though, lasted only three minutes as Bobby Brady calmed Duleek with a brilliant fifth goal, taking out three Rovers defenders before powering a shot into the bottom corner.
Breno Araujo, only on the pitch 60 seconds, then scored his first Premier Division goal for Duleek.
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O'Reilly, completing a hat-trick of assists, whipped in a cross from the right and Araujo just beat the Rovers keeper to the ball and regained possession to score into an empty net. Duleek then completed the scoring with three minutes to go. Sean O'Halloran cut back from the byeline and nutmegged the Kentstown full-back before shooting between the legs of the hapless Rovers keeper.
Duleek: Jonathan Clear, Sean Kennedy (Robbie Daly 49), James Traynor, Craig Moore (Callum Cooney 62), Ben Boyce, Tom Reilly, Sean O'Halloran, Matthew Noone (Bobby Brady 49), Josh O'Reilly, Karl Dyas (Jamie McCarthy 61), Jayden Clarke (Breno Araujo 72).
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