There have been a few occassions in recent years when Antrim's senior footballers and hurlers have been in action on the same day, the rare event is when they both win, and the 24 January will not be added to that meagre list.
The footballers could only progress to the semi final of the McKenna cup through an unlikely set of results which included our winning today V Queen's University by a significant margin. The management of the team wisely said in the run up to this afternoon's game that a win was the important thing, no matter what else happened. It was a tight affair with both Justin Crozier and Declan O'Hagan showing well for the students, while for an under strength Antrim side James Loughrey again showed up very well as did old stagers McGreevy in goals, Kevin Brady and Ciaran Close. Trailing by five at the break Antrim hit five in a row to draw level and with the signigicant assistance of Paddy Cunningham sprung from the bench, we traded points with Queen's before easing ahead as injury time began. Antrim held out for the win, and it was deserved. One notable feature of our play was the work rate and the 'hassle factor' of our half forwards, not letting the ball out easily is now an Antrim habit and today brought about two consecutive points at important stages.
Tougher battles will follow and its not all eyes on the league game v Sligo two weeks from today.
Two years ago our hurlers won the Walsh Cup, in what turned out to be the highlight of the Sambo / Woody reign. This year the Dubdlin students turned the tables and delivered a big defeat. Details are short but whatever way you look at it a 4-20 - 3-10 reverse is a poor result. Again, the league is what really matters and we look forward to the first game v Carlow a month from now.
Today the saffrons took on the students in both codes, the footballers have been found to be getting results while our hurlers, must do better.
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