12 points from Myers, including nine frees, sends Sars on their way as Midleton let opportunity slip
The pitch invasion was delayed by a little red tape and a tissue of stewarding, but soon there was a happy mob in front of the South Stand, blue smoke billowing from a couple of smuggled flares. For Sars, one of the biggest clubs in, it had been a long, sore, perplexing wait: nine years since their last title, eight years since they had even contested a final. Resolved now.
McCarthy broke into the team before the championship while Conor O’Sullivan – the Sars captain and former Cork player – recovered from a serious groin injury. When O’Sullivan was available again he couldn’t dislodge McCarthy, and having come on as a sub in five of Sars’ games, O’Sullivan’s first start of the championship was in yesterday’s final.
The last time these teams met in a county final, 10 years ago, Conor Lehane scored 2-10 and when he hit the target with his first possession after 37 seconds Sars’ hearts must have been in their mouths. He didn’t really get going until Midleton pushed him into the full-forward line in the second quarter, but then he rattled off four points, three in as many minutes, and Midleton quickly built a six-point lead.
In the second half all of that changed. O’Sullivan and Daniel Kearney, another former Cork player, are the creative hub of the team and when Sars finally got some traction with their passing game, that pair were at the heart of it. For Sars, it was a hugely significant victory. On their run to the final, and on the day, they had beaten all the recent winners of the title, and their reputation as a team that was liable to fold has been emphatically rebutted. They looked dead and buried against Imokilly in the semi-final, and as O’Sullivan said afterwards, they had suffered a run of timid exits from the championship.
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