Sligo Inter-Cultural Futsal League

The penultimate week of the Sligo Inter-Cultural Futsal League saw plenty of goals while also setting up a title decider for the final week of action next Wednesday evening. Once again the Ursuline College was the venue and the first game saw the Sligo Rovers Young Guns taking on the second team from the Sligo Immigrant Workers Organisation. The Rovers Young Guns started well and led 3-0 at half time thanks to goals from Niall Howley and Gavin Butler with Butler getting two. Howley added two further goals at the start of the second half as the Young Guns opened up a 5-1 lead. However SIO 2 came back to within two goals but strikes from Kieran McLoughlin and Brendan Mooney ensured that the Young Guns held on for a 7-4 win their first victory in the competition.

The second game was a meeting of two of the unbeaten sides in the competition as Sligo Rovers 1 took on Globe House 1. In what was a real end to end game Rovers 1 won 8-4 to set up a title decider against the other side from the Sligo Immigrant Workers Organisation. Rovers 1 blitzed the Globe House side in the first half as they raced into a 5-0 lead thanks to goals from Nilo Ramos, Colin Feehily, Adam Hynes, Gavin O’Dwyer and an own goal. Two more goals at the start of the second half from Darragh Healy and Adam Hynes saw that lead stretch to seven. However the Rovers then eased up which is not something you can necessarily do as Globe House scored four goals in succession to get themselves back into the game. However Rovers regrouped as a second goal from Ramos proved to be the crucial score in the game as they picked up the win.

The last round of games including the title decider is on Wednesday night in the Ursuline College. The action gets underway at 7 o’clock.

Results:

Team 2 (Sligo Rovers Young Guns) 7 – 4 Team 4 (SIO 2)
Team 1 (Sligo Rovers 1) 8 – 4 Team 3 (Globe House 1)

Fixtures:

Team 4 (SIO 2) vs. Team 3 (Globe House 1)
Team 2 (Sligo Rovers Young Guns) vs. Team 6 (Globe House 2)
Team 1 (Sligo Rovers 1) vs. Team 5 (SIO 1)