U14s win Dublin blitz
Waterford Camogie
U14 Development Squad travelled to Dublin Blitz on Saturday for the annual Paul
Beecher competition. This was the first time that Waterford participated in
this competition and were anxious to prove their worth.
Placed in the
"B" competition, they won all their group games beating Tipperary B,
Dublin B and Meath A. In the Semi Final they played Cork B and enjoyed a good
win. In the final, they faced Tipperary B again, after they had defeated
Kilkenny B in their semi-final. Tipperary started in a very determined
manner, seeking revenge for their group stage defeat and raced into an early
lead. Waterford slowly settled and by half-time had nudged ahead on the
score-board. In the second-half Waterford played their best hurling of the year
so far as the defence performed heroically to restrict the opposition and the
forwards combined intelligently to run out comprehensive winners at the end. Gaultier's
Shauna Fitzgerald, the captain proudly received the winning trophy on behalf of
her team
Panel for
Dublin Blitz: Katie O'Keeffe (DLS), Aisling Madigan (DLS), Ciara Kilcawley
(Brickey Rangers), Aoife Hahessy (Clonea), Keeley Corbett Barry (Clonea),
Aisling Baumann (Dungarvan), Alix Fitzgerald (Dungarvan), Kaiesha Tobin
(Dungarvan), Annie Fitzgerald (Gailltir), Shauna Fitzgerald (Gailltir), Emma
Flynn (Gailltir)Capt, Kate Lynch (Gailltir), Ciara O'Sullivan (Gailltir), Leah
Sheridan (Gailltir), Mary Kate Curran (Modeligo), Margaret Ann Boylan
(Portlaw), Eimear Foran (Portlaw), Aoife Fleming (St. Mollerans), Emma Norris
(St. Molleran), Leah Barry (Tramore), Muireann Cuddihy (Tramore), Ciara Griffin
(Tramore), Sally Kelly (Tramore)
Well done to all
the players and this is another example at all the excellent work that is
occurring at underage level in Waterford camogie.
Win for Waterford Intermediate Team seals All
Ireland Semi-final Place
After a setback to
Waterford Intermediate camogie teams All Ireland plans last week when they
suffered their first loss of the 2014 Liberty
Insurance Championship to Kilkenny, the team responded this week with
an easy win against Wexford when they won on a score of 1-13 to 0-04.
Although it proved
to be a straight forward win in the end it was not always sure particularly at
the start of the match. Waterford opened the game brigthly but could
not convert scoring chances and saw five scoreable chances sail wide of
the upright. It was not until the twelfth minute that Waterford opened
their scoring when Nicola Morrissey latched onto a Shona Curran pass and
fired over, but two quick Wexford frees saw Waterford trail shortly after.
Players in the Waterford defense such as Shauna Prendergast, Pauline
Cunningham, Fiona Morrissey and Claire Whyte were restricting Wexford scoring
chances and after fifteen minutes of play the Waterford midfield started to
exert considerable influence on the game and two Trish
Jackman scores (1f) saw us take the lead again , a lead which was
never surrendered. Scores from Shona Curran and Karen Kelly finished
Waterford's scoring in the first half and Waterford would have been
further clear except for some more wides and good Wexford defensive play.
Wexford could only score one further point before the break to leave the
halftime score at 0-05 to 0-03.
Waterford came out
strong at the start of the second half and extended the lead after Ruth
Geoghegan was fouled and Trish Jackman converted the free. Waterford were
unlucky not to score a goal when Shona Curran released Lorraine Bray but Laura
Brennan in the Wexford goal made an excellent save with Waterford converted
the resulting 45. Waterford didn't have to wait long for their goal and once
again Lorraine Bray was on the end of some excellent Waterford play
to fire the ball into the Wexford net.
Waterford
restricted Wexford to two points in the second half, both frees, demonstrating
the dominance that the team exerted and the hardwork performed by the
defense. Waterford continued to score and points from Fiona Morrissey, Nicola
Morrissey and Trish Jackman. As fulltime approached substitutes were brought on
and contributed to the result and Emma Hannon scored her second point in two
weeks after coming off the bench.
At fulltime the
team had the result they needed are to be congratulated on an excellent
team performance but need to be wary of the number of scoring chances that went
wide.
This concluded
Waterford's league phase of this year's Liberty Insurance Intermediate
Championship in which Waterford won three of their four matches and
scored a total of 7-41 and conceded 5-29 and finished with 6 points from a possible
8. At the same time that Waterford were in action against Wexford,
Meath (the only team that could prevent Waterford reaching the semi-final) were
playing Cork and the result from this match went in Waterford's favour with
Cork beating Meath 2-12 to 0-10. There is still one round of matches to be
played next week (Waterford have a bye) but the results from these matches
cannot prevent Waterford playing in this year's championship semi-final.
The All
Ireland semi-finals are fixed for 16th August and it looks like we will
finish runners-up to Kilkenny. As the second placed team in our Group we will
face the top placed team in Group 1 which looks like it will be Limerick or
Galway at present.
U16s
Well done to the
U16 panel that beat Antrim on Sunday on a score of 4-13 to 3-8. That's three
wins from three. Next up is Tipperary.
Non County Player League Final
The final of the
Non County Player League will be played between Cappoquin and Gailltir.
Cappoquin had beaten both Lismore and Portlaw to reach the final while Gailltir
needed a win against Butlerstown last Friday to secure their place in rge
final. The date for the final has not been set yet.
U16s Championship
The second
round of the U16 championship was held last week.
Section A
De la Salle
followed up their win against their first round opponents of Brickey Rangers
with another win against Dungarvan this week. Due to a postponed match in
Round 1, Gailltir had their first match this week against Cappoquin and won the
match. Although only two rounds have been completed in this section,
it looks like the strong teams in this section are De la Salle and Gailltir and it will be
interesting to see the result when these two teams meet in the next round. Both
of these two teams have a large contingent of County U14 and U16 squad
players so the match will go along way to deciding overall final table
positions.
Section B
After winning
their first match in the championship, Tramore faced Lismore in the second
round. In a closely contested match the Lismore side were victorious on this
occasion. The match between Clonea and Ferrybank has been rescheduled for this
week while An Rinn had a bye.
Section C
Roanmore hosted
St.Molleran's this week and St. Molleran's proved too strong on this occasion.
Tallow hosted Abbeyside and the homeside were victorious.
U12 League
The
final round of U12 matches were played this past week and the following is
the status of the various sections:
Section A
Butlerstown had
mixed form recently, they won their match against St. Anne's but couldn't
follow up the result against De la Salle when they lost. In the last week
Gailltir then faced Butlerstown and won the match which meant that Gailltir
topped the table and are the U12 A champions for 2014.
Section B
Lismore beat St.
Molleran's in their final match of the league
Section C
An Rinn continue
their winning ways when they beat Tallow. The Roanmore v Cappoquin match has
been rescheduled.
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