{"id":13999,"date":"2022-11-07T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:10:56","slug":"narrow-loss-for-thirds-at-south-antrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/narrow-loss-for-thirds-at-south-antrim\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow loss for thirds at South Antrim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The men&#8217;s thirds had a late start at South Antrim to face their thirds in a league encounter last Saturday. Starting the brighter of the two sides, the visitors created the best chances with the hosts keeping a very high line allowing veteran Stevie Magee to drop deep and throw the tastiest of aerials over the backline. Controlling much of the game, it seemed only a matter of time, and the opener soon came when Scott Irwin hit the baseline and squared for skipper Sam Pyper to slot home making it 1-0 to North Down at half time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the break, South Antrim started quick and immediately got back into the game with a tight angled reverse. North Down continued to push to regain the lead and a great save from the keeper denied Magee from a short.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/15001456012\/user\/100005861653631\/?__cft__[0]=AZWUl0dFCr1hrnXDzM5_bBoig1I292GcjoKOMB4QcmefJc0_m0Jn-pjV46FZMzcFINOs8sfpR6CqfFDwJ6lSYesyX6BFQfErU15Rj14_TaZek20Y05EUwerLArsNxZUPgqIm_SDxLgXV4ekWhpl4qrl2c9lz2MsNYCUy3SaEL93H_10navtpranxtNjFlwyzidA&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\"> <\/a> Reuben McIlrath came close with a superb deflection from a crash ball from Dermot Gouk and  Pyper then struck the post as the keeper continued his good form saving with his face, again denying Pyper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 10 minutes to go, Mockford whose aerials had been excellent all day, tried a shorter one into centre mid, but didn&#8217;t catch it and instead the ball went straight to their centre forward.  Mockford and Paul Beaney couldn&#8217;t recover and the hosts went 2-1 up. With time on their side South Antrim slowed the game down and frustrated the Comber men seeing out the clock and taking all 3 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A disappointing day where fine margins made the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burch Autos Man of the Match was Scott Irwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s thirds had a late start at South Antrim to face their thirds in a league encounter last Saturday. Starting the brighter of the two sides, the visitors created the best chances with the hosts keeping a very high line allowing veteran Stevie Magee to drop deep and throw the tastiest of aerials over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-match-reports","category-mens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14000,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}