Vale started the brighter of the two teams and had a couple of half chances from Sean Smithers and Robert Bulmer but they failed to convert. Vale broke the deadlock through Sean Smithers on the 20 minute mark and they doubled their lead 3 minutes later when Rob Bulmer fired home from 25 yards. Vale were starting to take hold of the game at this stage and soon made it 3-0 when James Dowling squared for Rob Bulmer to tap into an empty net.

The second half started similar to the first with Vale enjoying much of the possession but Killeshin were the ones who got the next goal. James Brennan was tripped in the box and dusted himself down to step up and slot away the penalty to make it 1-3 which sparked hopes of a potential comeback. Unfortunately for Killeshin, Vale’s front 3 of Bulmer, Dowling, and Smithers had other ideas. Vale scored 3 goals in the next 15 minutes, Bulmer for his 3rd of the game, Smithers scoring a fine solo effort, and substitute Charlie Nolan scoring a cracking volley from the edge of the box. This put the game to bed and it could have been more if it wasn’t for a strange of excellent saves from Pierce Bregazzi in the Killeshin goal. Killeshin worked hard and pulled one back after ciaran townsend reacted quickest to Jack Rowan’s parried shot just before full time to leave the final score at 2-6.

There was a couple of fine performances from Jack Treacy, Rob Bulmer, and Liam Ryan for the away side but on the day Sean Smithers ran riot from the first whistle to the last and was unstoppable scoring 2 and assisting 3.