Munster Senior
Championship
After winning the 2013 Intermediate Championship
the Waterford Adult team decided to enter the Munster Senior Championship in
2014.
The team travelled to ‘The Ragg’ grounds outside
Thurles on May Bank Holiday Monday 5th May for a 6:30 throw-in to
face Tipperary.
Heavy showers before throw-in meant that conditions
were slippy underfoot and Tipperary started brightly to get their first point
in the first couple of minutes.
The Waterford team responded with a point form
Shona Curran to equalise followed with a Lorraine Bray goal following a
goalmouth scramble.
Waterford extended the lead further when Nicola
Morrissey slotted over from play after good work by Shona Curran. Unfortunately
this completed our scoring in the first half while Tipperary upped their work rate
and went on a scoring spree to score six unanswered points leading 0-07 to 1-02
at halftime.
The beginning of
the second half saw Tipperary score a further 1-03 before the Waterford team
responded and scored two Karen Kelly points and a point from a Trish Jackman
free. With about eight minutes to play Trish Jackman stood up to take a free
from the 20 metre line and her powerful shot flew into the net through the line
of Tipperary defenders to leave two points between the teams in the closing
states. Unfortunately, the gap could not be narrowed as Tipperary scored two
further points and Waterford responded with points from a Trish Jackman free
and a Karen Kelly score from play. The final score of the match was Tipperary
1-12 to Waterford’s 2-07 ending our participation in the Munster Championship
but the players were not fazed by the step up to Senior grade.
Junior League
Final
The Junior league
final was played last Saturday evening in Walsh park between Ferrybank and
Roanmore. In a match that was significantly influenced by the strong winds the
Ferrybank team were victorious on a score of 3-07 to 2-08 but did not
score their winning points until into injury time. These two clubs have just
commenced participating at junior level and the standard of camogie played was
extremely high and both clubs are to be commended.
U14 Development
Squad
The U14
development squad (see photo) travelled to Ennis on Bank holiday Monday last to
participate in their first inter-county blitz of 2014. The team had been
preparing with some challenge matches up to this point there is no real
substitute for competition. It was a very early start for our players with the
bus departing Waterford City at 7am and picking up players are pre-arranged
pick-up points.
The first match of the blitz was against Limerick at a 10am throw-in. Our players showed no ill effect from the early start and won the match by 1-02 to Limerick's 1-01.
The next match was
against Clare A and we lost the match by the slimmest margin of Waterford 1-01
to Clare A's 1-02. At this stage, Waterford competed in the Plate semi-final
against Tipperary B and were successful in reaching the final by beating them
3-03 to 1-01.
In the Plate final
we once again faced Limerick A but could not overcome them this time losing out
0-04 to 0-02.
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