Mixed bag of results for CYFC

CYFC 11s 5 Portadown 0

CYFC Colts 5 St Marys 3

Bloomfield 2 CYFC 12s 1

CYFC 13s 3 Magherafelt Sky Blues 1

CYFC 15s 0 Linfield 3

Crusaders 4 CYFC 16s 0

CYFC 14s and 18s games were both postponed

U11s 5-0 Portadown

The game started with the Cookstown side getting caught cold at the back and they could have been two down in the first five minutes, only for good keeping by Eoghan Donnelly.

Once they settled, they started to put pressure on Portadown down both the flanks from Zach Ferson and Terry Devlin.

Portadown did exploit Cookstown’s midfield at points, but it was the home side’s Caleb Rob and Dominic O’Neill who dominated and provided goals for Nathan Murray, Benedito Tereso, Stewart Wylie, Terry Devlin and Zach Ferson .

It was a good team effort against a development side .

Colts 5-3 St Mary’s

Cookstown started brightly and opened the scoring on two minutes through Peter Bell, but unfortunately, a defensive error caused the game to be pulled back to 1-1.

Bell then put Cookstown back in front, before St Mary’s scored twice to leave Cookstown 3-2 down at haltime.

Cookstown started back on the front foot, having plenty of chances before Ben McNally scored, then taking the lead through Nathan Bartley.

The turning point came five minutes from the end when Ryan made a brilliant save and, from the resulting corner, Cookstown broke away and Terry Devlin scored the clincher.

12s 2-1 Bloomfield Youth

After a couple of weeks of rescheduling, the young Sizzlers finally met Bloomfield of Belfast in the NIBFA Cup at the Olympia Leisure Centre’s 3G pitch and the Cookstown 12s emerged victorious.

Manager Gerry Quinn was equally tentative and excited facing a South Belfast Youth League leaders who were undefeated.

Cookstown created two great chances in the opening ten minutes, Lee Glasgow seeing his shot rise over the bar from 15 yards and Luke Patterson screwing his left footed shot just wide from a great position.