St. Colmcilles 0-04 Seneschalstown 5-06
Seneschalstown and St. Colmcilles U-14 Girls have thrown up some mighty games over the course of the last few years with huge respect and rivalry developing between both sets of teams and management and Saturday evenings game only added to this ongoing story saga now that both teams are up to Division 1.
Facing a backlash after beating the Cilles in the Division 2 U-13 Final back in November by the bare minimum of a point the Seneschalstown girls knew that this was going to be a tough encounter in Piltown.
St. Colmcilles 0-04 Seneschalstown 5-06
Seneschalstown and St. Colmcilles U-14 Girls have thrown up some mighty games over the course of the last few years with huge respect and rivalry developing between both sets of teams and management and Saturday evenings game only added to this ongoing story saga now that both teams are up to Division 1.
Facing a backlash after beating the Cilles in the Division 2 U-13 Final back in November by the bare minimum of a point the Seneschalstown girls knew that this was going to be a tough encounter in Piltown.
However just like the final the first ten minutes both teams played to their strengths testing both sets of defenders before Mallaidh Breen opened the scoring with a fine point. The Seasiders responded with a fine score from their Meath sharpshooter Alannah Boland who was being paid extra close attention by her Meath colleagues Aoibhe Monaghan and Lauren McCarthy. Fellow defenders Charlie Murray, Aine Nangle and Sadhbh McLarney were excellent in the tackle. A bad clash of heads after twelve minutes in the middle of the field between Zoe Kirwan and Kerri Martin as they were going for a 50:50 ball both blinded facing into a strong sun resulted in the Meath midfielder receiving a bloody nose and was unable to continue. Seneschalstown would like to express to Kerri a speedy recovery and a fine player for St. Colmcilles was badly missed.
The Furze girls began to dominate the game and wing half back Zoe Kirwan was having a super match. Excellent points from midfielder Lauren Donnelly and wing half forward Ella Kilfeather followed before Orla Finnegan finished off a fine move to the back of the net giving the Boyneside girls some breathing space at 1-03 to 0-01. Corner Forward Ava Jane Ryan was picking up excellent ball on the wing and popped over a lovely point with her trusted left boot. Centre forward Mallaidh Breen turned in another excellent goal to finish off the half after excellent work from corner forward Caoimhe Dunne and Sinead McLarney. This left the score at the interval reading St. Colmcilles 0-01 Seneschalstown 2-04.
Unfortunate to be beaten last week by Dunboyne the Furze girls were straight out of the blocks in the second half killing off the game within two minutes. Mallaidh Breen found the net after a surging run from midfielder Caragh Monaghan. Immediately after Breen’s major Orla Finnegan who was rampant throughout, found the net twice to make the score 5-05 to 0-01. St. Colmcilles rallied really well and began to show their hunger and pride with three excellent unanswered points from Tegan Gordon and Alannah Boland.
Again Boland was denied for a certain goal with a magnificent save by the hugely impressive goalie Robyn Murray. The Cilles were unfortunate to hit the woodwork shortly after and when Caragh Monaghan from midfield scored a superb point five minutes from the end the game was up. This was a hugely entertaining game as always between these two teams and the mutual respect both teams showed for each other at the end of the match was really a credit to both.
Their paths will cross again and with both of these teams up from Division 2 to Division 1 they will cause a shake up in the higher grade.
Seneschalstown: Robyn Murray, Charlie Murray, Aine Nangle, Sadhbh McLarney, Zoe Kirwan, Aoibhe Monaghan, Lauren McCarthy, Lauren Donnelly (0-01), Caragh Monaghan (0-01), Orla Finnegan (3-00), Mallaidh Breen (2-01), Caoimhe Dunne, Sinead McLarney, Ava Jane Ryan (0-2), Ella Kilfeather (0-1)
Subs: Zoe Ryan, Niamh Traynor
