This past sunday the seniors travelled to Desertmartin in an attempt to follow up on their fantastic opening day victory over Craigbane.

The match began as a scrappy affair with the home side opening the scoring from a free-kick after three minutes. On the resulting kick out though the ball eluded all the mid fielders and was captured by Ryan Mullan who went on a mazy run before kncking over a delightful point. Drumsurn's superior fitness and composure came to the fore in the following period, on nine minutes a pinpoint pass from Ciaran Mullan found Mark McLaughlin in space and with plenty of time he stroked over Drumsurn's second point. On the resulting kick out Damien Canning broke the ball to Ciaran mullan who again was the provider as his pass sent Pierce McNickle clear to score Drumsurns third point.

On twelve minutes Drumsurn delivered a killer blow to the home side, an exquisite pass from Ryan Mullan found Ciaran Mullan who easily turned his man and hammered the ball to the back of the net leaving the keeper flapping at thin air. A Drumsurn mistake let the home side in for their second point on nineteen minutes but Drumsurn were well on top at this stage. After a good run from Ciaran Mullan he found Pearse Mcnickle who sent over his second point to put Drumsurn five points up after 21 minutes.

The home side awoke from their slumber and following a quickly taken free kick catching Drumsurn napping they hit the back of the net and brought themselves right back into the game. Two quick points from the home side had the scores level going into injury time but following good work from both Ciaran and Martin Mullan they combined to set up Micheal Coll who put drumsurn a point up and Paul butcher added another point to have Drumsurn two clear at the break

Half Time: Desertmartin 1-04 Drumsurn 1-06

The second half opened as scrappily as the first, the home side clawed their way back into the game and after thirty five minutes the scores were level and Drumsurn having lost thier composure were in bad danger of letting this match slip away from them as Desertmartin were all over them.

The teams traded scores up until the forty-seventh minute leaving the score at 1-8 apiece, within this period Pearse Mcnickle had a great chance of a goal but saw his effort saved by the home keeper. The game entered the final ten minutes and it could easily have went either way, on 51 minutes Ciaran Mullan put Drumsurn back in front with his thrid pointed free. This seemed to give Drumsurn the spur the needed to push on for victory as the started to control the match as they ahd in the opening twenty minutes.

The game was still in the balance until three minutes from time with Drumsurn up by one, a kick out broke in favour of Drumsurn and again fell to Ciaran Mullan who took off on a run with his marker left in his wake he slipped the ball neatly to Dannie O'connor who slotted the ball to the net won this game for Drumsurn, Desertmartin pulled one back a minute later but two excellent points from Micheal Coll in the dying moments sealed another fantastic and hard fought victory for Drumsurn.

An excellent hard fought win for the team well deserved. Many great performances Steven Harbinson again as solid as ever between the posts making an excellent point blank save in the second half with the game evenly poised. the defence performed great Micheal Coll providing the scores to back up Damien canning's dominance in midfield. up front Ciaran Mullan ran the show scoring 1-3 and providing alot of scores too abley supported by Ryan Mullan Pierce McNickle and Dannie O'Connor.

Team and scorers
Stephen Harbinson, Dane Mullan, Christopher Harbinson, Barry Moore, Michael Archibald, Colm Feeney, Paul Butcher(0-1), Michael Coll(0-3), Damian Canning, Ryan Mullan(0-1), Ciaran Mullan(1-3), Mark Mclaughlin(0-1), Martin Mullan, Pierce McNickle(0-2), Danny O'Connor(1-0)

Subs
Ciaran Ferris for Michael Archibald (12 mins), Gerard Curley for Colm Feeney (23 mins).