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06 Sept 2025

Rampant Draperstown Celtic hit Garvagh for six

Dungiven Celtic

Aaron McGlade scored a hat trick against Garvagh.

Reporter:

Gary Ferry

26 Aug 2024 10:49 AM

Dungiven Celtic 6
Garvagh 1
The Firsts hosted Garvagh at a wet and windy Cahore on Saturday afternoon and it took just two minutes to break the deadlock.
Caulfield stole a ball on the line, played a neat one two with McGovern and set Niall Higgins up well to turn in the box and convert from just yards out, his first DC goal. It was almost a real a family affair when DC stalwart John Higgins, cousin of Niall, struck a fine free kick from just outside the box only to be denied by the crossbar.
A rampant DC came forward in waves of slick football but struggled to double the lead as chance after chanced was spurned or hit against various part of the goal posts and crossbar. It was only a matter of time before a second arrived and it did just before half time when Aaron McGlade fired home from range.

The second half started just like the first, a goal coming withing two minutes as McGlade broke into the box and squared to McGovern to tap home from six yards out.
Minutes later the roles were reversed. DC defending a corner, broke forward and McGovern sent the wrong way in the middle of the pitch, raced into the box and unselfishly set it up for Aaron McGlade to tap home.
Shea Murray was introduced early in the half to make his senior debut, joining Nathan Murphy in becoming the latest player to come through the youth setup and play senior football for the club, and instantly gave Garvagh a new headache to worry about with his lively movement on the wing.
With the game as good as settled, Glass used more of his bench and it was a sub, K McGuigan who set up McGlade for his hattrick and the home sides fifth with fifteen minutes to go.
The lads kept coming forward and on another day several players would have got hat tricks. With five to go Garvagh were awarded a penalty that was so soft even the Garvagh contingent didn't understand how it was a penalty. They duly dispatched it to deny the DC lads a clean sheet but from the restart McGovern restored the home sides five goal cushion and that's how it ended. 

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