Déise Ladies Defeated In South East Derby

All Ireland Runners up Kilkenny overran Waterford with a slick attacking display on Sunday afternoon to put them top of the table.  

Ann Downey sent out ten players from the team that comprehensively beat Waterford in last June Championship match.  Kilkenny came into the game with two comprehensive wins over Dublin and Clare. Waterford came into the game with a good win over Meath and a draw in a thriller encounter against Clare. Waterford’s panel was decimated for this third tie due to the illness of number of panel members forcing Donal O’Rourke to make a number of changes before the game.   

Kilkenny came into this game full of confidence and started the game at a very fast pace with Miriam Walsh registering their first point in the first minute of play.  Two minutes later Julianne Malone registered her first score.  Waterford struggled with the pace of the game but to their credit Waterford battled hard and won a free on the fifth minute which Carton converted.  Beth Carton continued to test the Kilkenny backs and on the seventh minutes Carton was awarded a penalty.  Emma Kavanagh pulled off a great save and put Kilkenny on the attack again. Kilkenny won free which Ann Dalton converted on the eighth minutes. Kilkenny stormed into the game with point from Julieann Malone. The only goal of the game came on the eleventh minute from Grace O’Donnell.  Katie Power put over another point for Kilkenny leaving the scoreline 1-05 to 0-01 on the fifteenth minute. Their fluid forward movement and accurate short passing created openings which caused many problems for the Waterford defence.  Waterford upped their pace and finished strongly with three unanswered points by Beth Carton to leave the score at half time 1-06 to 0-04.

In the second half Waterford got off to the better start with Carton winning a free and converting it.  This just left four between the teams. Kilkenny opened their scoring with scores coming from Denise Gaule and Aoife Doyle. Waterford had some great passages of play and whilst they got in the faces of the black and amber, they didn’t carry a sufficient attacking threat.  On the twentienth minute of the second half Carton sent over another free leaving the scoreline 1-10 to 0-07. Donal O’Rourke rang in a number of changes in the last ten minutes giving debuts to Saoirse O’Brien, Abbie Dunphy and Sadie Mai Rowe.  Kilkenny finished with a flurry of points from Miriam Walsh, Aoife Doyle and Denise Gaule.  Niamh Rockett fired over a fantastic point in injury time and the final point of the game came from a free which  Denise Gaule converted leaving the scoreline 1-14 to 0-08.

The favourites Kilkenny were very impressive and led from start to finish with outstanding displays from Grace Walsh, Aoife Doyle, Ann Dalton, Julieann Malone, Grace O’Donnell and Miriam Walsh.  There were a lot of positives for Waterford with some very impressive individual performances. For Waterford Beth Carton, Mairead Power and Lorraine Bray all stood out.   

Waterford next game is against Dublin on the 18^th of February in WIT Carrignore at 2PM.  This is a must win game for Waterford if they are to progress to the play offs.

Scorers for Kilkenny: Miriam Walsh 0-04 Denise Gaule 0-04 fs  Grace O’Donnell 1-00, Julieann Malone 0-2 Ann Dalton 0-02fs, Aoife Doyle 0-01 Katie Power 0-01

Scorers for Waterford: Beth Carton 0-07 (5fs), Niamh Rockett 0-01.

Kilkenny: Emma Kavanagh; Laura Murphy, Grace Walsh, Catherine Foley; Michelle Teehan, Colette Dormer, Roisin Phelan; Ann Dalton, Claire Phelan; Aoife Doyle, Julieann Malone, Katie Power; Jenny Clifford, Grace O’Donnell, Miriam Walsh, Davina Tobin, Denise Gaule, Danielle, Lydia Phelan, Niamh Leahy, Aisling O’Farrell, Michelle Quilty

Waterford: Brianna O’Regan; Mairead Power, Iona Heffernan, Jenny McCarthy; Aoife Landers,  Claire Whyte, Shauna Fitzgerald, Lorraine Bray, Sibeal Harney, Orla Hickey, Deirdre Fahy, Niamh Rockett; Aisling Power, Beth Carton, Áine Power.

Subs: Clara Griffin for Shauna Fitzgerald, Sadie Mai Rowe for Claire Whyte, Clare Murphy for Áine Power, Abbie Dunphy for Mairead Power, Saoirse O’Brien for Orla Hickey.

Referee: Andrew Larkin

Post Primary All Ireland Senior B Semi final

Best of luck to the Ursuline Waterford who take on the Abbey Community college in Ferrybank in the Senior B Semi-final on Saturday next.  This is a local derby and promises to be a great game. Please come out and support our girls.

Venue and time to be confirmed.  We will post up on Facebook and twitter as soon as venue and time are confirmed.

Waterford Under 14 School of excellence

The Under 14 School of excellence continues next Saturday in WIT Carrignore at 1.30PM and finishes at 4.15PM.  Another great line up is promised next week. 

Ashbourne Colleges

Best of luck to all our County players and Club players who will play with their respective colleges next weekend.

Waterford Camogie Office

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