Having lost narrowly to Whitegate last time out, Tubber returned to winning ways in the Clare PIHC on Saturday evening when defeating Sixmilebridge.

Two first half goals from Cathal McNamara gave the North Clare side a grip on the tie which they never relinquished.

Sixmilebridge had the better of matters in the opening quarter at the end of which they held a two point lead, 0-7 to 0-5.

Cathal McNamara’s first goal rocked the ‘Bridge and from there to half time they were outscored by the winners to the tune of 2-7 to 0-3
After that first goal, Tubber began to find holes in the Bridge defence, and they picked off some good scores.

Two points at the start of the second half gave a little bit of hope to Sixmilebridge, but the dominance of Tubber in many areas of the field, and their impressive ratio of scores, 35 shots on goal, yielding 30 scores proved decisive.

Scorers; Tubber: Cathal McNamara (2-1); Cathal Droney (0-5), Lorcan O’Grady (all frees); Osgar Dunford, Ronan Monahan (0-4) each; Jordan Nolan (0-3), Pat O’Connor, Clive Earley, Macauley Brennan (0-2) each; Blaine Earley (0-1)

Scorers Sixmilebridge: Cillian Murphy: (0-9), 6 frees, 1’65; Calum Phelan: (0-3) Ronan Touhy: (0-2) Dara Casey, Luke Keogh, Oisin Breen (0-1) each

Tubber;
1: Ronan Taaffe;

2: Fergal O’Grady,
3: Pappy Taaffe,
18: Joey Droney;

5: Ronan Monahan,
6: Pat O’Connor,
7: Joe Clancy;

9: Clive Earley
10: Lorcan O’Grady;

13: Osgar Dunford,
17: Senan Dunford,
15: Cathal Droney;

19: Macauley Brennan,
23: Jordan Nolan,
12: Cathal McNamara;

Sub:
25: Blaine Earley for F. O’Grady;

Sixmilebridge;
1: Derek Fahy;

2: Colm Flynn,
3: Brian Carey,
4: Adam Breen;

8: Jack O Halloran,
6: Caimin Morey,
14: Luke Keogh;

7: Oisin Breen,
9: Cillian Murphy;

18: Stephan Gavin,
10: Calum Phelan,
13: Seamus O’Connell;

17: Dara Casey
22: Dylan Keogh
15: Ronan Tuohy

Subs:
5: Mark Mullins for Gavin
20: Fionn Hayes for O’Connell
21: John Deasy for Oisin Breen (inj)
19: Rory Chaplin for Dara Casey
25: Kevin Lynch for Dylan Keogh

Referee: Johnnie Healy (Smith O’Briens)