Brave Waterford loose out to Kilkenny in first league game of 2016

Waterford played their first ever camogie match at Senior level against Kilkenny.  They came up against a well organised Kilkenny team that controlled large portions of the match to win comfortably by nine points on a score of 3-16 to 3-07 when the match was played at Piltown GAA grounds last Sunday.

Waterford must be congratulated for their perseverance during the match having been behind by seventeen points at one point and converted 2-03 in the final 10 minutes to close the gap.

Waterford were somewhat unlucky to be goal down inside the first minute when Kilkenny's Ann Dalton sent in a high ball and Tracey Kiely misjudged the flight of the ball which ended up in the back of the net. The deficit was reduced two minutes later when Waterford's  Zoe O'Donoghue evaded her marker out on the wing to fire over. The next passage of play saw Kilkenny awarded a penalty which Tracey Kiely in the Waterford goal done very well to save. A Kilkenny point was answered by a Beth Carton free before Kilkenny started to dominate possession and always had runners attacking the Waterford defence at pace. Kilkenny converted a further eight points (3fs) while Waterford converted a Patricia Jackman free from distance and the opening Waterford goal was scored by Beth Carton when Catriona McGlone made a powerful run from the middle of the pitch. At halftime the score stood at 1-09 to 1-03 in Kilkenny's favour.  At half time we lost Trish Jackman as Trish had to depart to catch her flight back to the UK.  Despite efforts to try and put the game back an hour the camogie association declined our request and in the second half we had to do without the services of Trish Jackman. 

The start of the second half saw two converted frees from Kilkenny's Sarah Ann Quinlan's before Aine Gannon scored Kilkenny's second goal. The Waterford defence was under continually attack and it was wasn't long before Kilkenny's third goal was scored by Kate McDonald. Waterford's response was deflected point over the Kilkenny bar from a 20 meter free. As the final ten minutes started, Waterford were awarded a free on the Kilkenny 65 and Jennie Simpson delivered a high ball that ended in net for Waterford's second goal. From that point on Waterford were confident and shortly after  Fiona Morrissey  fired in a good ball that Niamh Ahearne was alert to and fired into the net.

Two Beth Carton points (1f) was finished off by a well taken Fiona Morrissey point while Kilkenny could only answer a solitary point.  When the final whistle was blown the team had lost their first ever Senior match but many positives can be taken from the occasion and can look forward to their next match which is a home game against Limerick on 13th March. 

Team:  1. Tracey Kiely, 2. Mairead Power 3. Fiona Morrissey 4. Claire Whyte 5.Charlotte Raher 6.Trish Jackman 7. Claire Murphy 8. Lorraine Bray 9. Iona Heffernan 10. Kate McMahon 11. Niamh Rockett 12. Beth Carton 13. Zoe O’Donoghue 14.Jennie Simpson, 15. Caitriona McGlone, 16.Brianna O’Regan 17. Becky Kavanagh 18. Saoirse Bonnar 19.Aisling Power 20.Sibeal Harney 21.Caoimhne Drohan 22.Sinead Cunningham 23.Ciara Jackman 24.Aoife Shanahan 25. Niamh Murphy 26.Deirdre Brennan 27. Niamh Ahearne.

Subs: Sibeal Harney and Aisling Power half time in place of Trish Jackman and Claire Murphy.  Becky  Kavanagh in place of Mairead Power 55mins, Niamh Ahearne in place of Zoe O’Donoghue.

Scorers:  Beth Carton 1-04 (3 frees) 1-01 Zoe O’Donoghue 1-00 Niamh Ahearne 0-01 Fiona Morrissey.

 

Waterford Under 16s narrowly lose out to Cork

Waterford took on Cork in the Munster semi final in the Cloughduv GAA grounds on Sunday last. This was a  fantastic performance by the Waterford Under 16 Camogie team which saw them come up just short against Cork, Cork running out winners by 1-10 to 1-8 after a fine game of Camogie.

Waterford took an early lead through a Kate Lynch point before Cork took the lead with three good points before Ashling Madigan hit another Waterford point. Cork then went 4 - 3 up before Shauna Fitzgerald scored Waterford third point. Cork then bagged 4 unanswered points to lead 7-3 but points from Shauna Fitzgerald, Kaeisha Tobin and Annie Fitzgerald brought Waterford to within 1 point before Cork grabbed a late goal to lead 1-7 to 0-6 at half time. Ashling Madigan pointed early in the second half and another Cork point put them 1-8 to 0-7 ahead. A Sarah Leacy goal brought Waterford right back into the game and Shauna Fitzgerald tied the scores with 5 minutes to go. Cork rallied and scored 2 unanswered points to win by 2 at the end. Waterford scorers Sarah Leacy 1-0, Annie Fitzgerald and Kate Lynch 0-1 each, Ashlng Madigan 0-2, Keisha Tobin 0-1, Shauna Fitzgerald 0-3.  Waterford will now play in the Munster Shield. Date and venue to be confirmed.

 

New Sponsor- DID ELECTRICAL

Waterford Camogie are delighted to announce that DID Electrical are our official sponsors of our county teams for 2016.  DID Electrical would like to take this opportunity to wish our Senior girls the very best of luck against Kilkenny this Sunday.

 

Dog Night:

Our big fundraiser event will take place in Kilcohan Dog Track on Saturday 9^th of April. All clubs received their allocation of tickets at last Monday county board meeting.  We are asking all our members to support this event.  Tickets are E10 or E20 for a family ticket which consists of two adults and up to five children. Tickets are also available from our Camogie Office in Dungarvan Nissan from John Flood or Lynsey Tutty.  Any businesses or Individuals who are interested in taking out an Ad in our programme please Contact Lynsey Tutty on 086 8113531 or John Flood on 087 6684474.  All proceeds will go towards all county teams. Please support.

 

Easter Camogie Camp:

Waterford camogie in conjunction with the Munster Camogie Council will run two camps over Easter. One in Dungarvan and one in Waterford City.  We will post more details here next week.