Saturday evening the Round 2B clash with Naomh Abán was booked for Ballygarvan and Fermoy had all the necessary preparation done. With perfect footballing conditions, it started a close game. Fermoy pointed through Martin Brennan and Ruairi O’Hagan, when all the forwards began to flow a lot better than games previously. After 15 minutes Fermoy had racked up 7 points to the Gaeltacht sides 3 points. The game tightened up again but it would be a well worked ball up the left hand side, with a quick outlet in found Morrison to shoot past and raise the green flag. Naomh Abán replied with two points of their own but on the stroke of half time Fermoy would point and even get another rub of the green. Fermoy seemed most dangerous when been patient in the middle and with fast runners like the Clancy brothers, breaking the gain lines and putting forwards into scoring positions. The ball would fall to Brennan to fire into the corner of the net for the second time in the half putting some distance between the opponents. The teams went in at half time 2-8 to 0-6 to the good. The scoreline was a true reflexion on how well Fermoys backs were playing, with the forever up and down half back line and the touch-tight fullback line led by Jeff Daly, who would even found himself on the score sheet after working hard all the way up the pitch and having the confidence to swing it over the crossbar. Paidi De Roiste was firing on all cylinders when the Naomh Abán side started to tighten up on him and even roughed him up more than once with the referee not taking too much notice.

In the second half the Ballyvourney side would always come out trying to right themselves and gat their foothold in the game. In the opening 10 minutes of the second half Naomh Abán found their range and scored 3 unanswered points before O’Hagan got the second half scoring underway. The intensity never dropped from both sides and Fermoy were managing the game well. Ronan O’Callaghan and Ruairi O’Hagan kept the distance with two big points and entering the final 10 minutes Fermoy needed to keep up the hard work they had managed up until that stage. Rory McEvoy and Dan Flynn took the place of Alan O’Connor and Jack Hutchings to inject a bit of fresh legs into the Fermoy side. Both O’Connor and Hutchings having good games. Naomh Abán had a never say die attitude and it paid off in the 55th minute of the game when a simple free was moved up into a more dangerous spot. With quick thinking while Fermoy seemed to fall asleep for a second, it would prove crucial as the free taker blasted it past Colman in goal, this goal brought it to a 3 point game 2-12 to 1-12. O’Hagan saw black when slowing down the game for Fermoy’s benefit which meant Dale Dawson saw the final minutes.  Both teams upped it again in Fermoy would go one better than the Ballyvourney side in the dying minutes paving Fermoy’s way into the next round of the Premier Intermediate Competition. The team that lined out; L Colman, A Bargary, J Daly, S Shanahan, B O’Sullivan, T Clancy, P Clancy, J Hutchings, P De Roiste, M Brennan, Ronan O’Callaghan, S Aherne, A O’Connor, R O’Hagan and K Morrison. Subs used; D Flynn for A O’Connor, Rory McEvoy for J Hutchings, D Dawson for R O’Hagan (Black card)