Camogie: Kilmessan are Leinster Champions
October 28, 2014
Kilmessan captain Ailbhe Lynch receives the Leinster Junior Camogie Championship Cup.
Kilmessan are the Leinster Junior Club champions for the second time in the clubs history after they had a landslide victory over Wicklow champions Donard/Glen.
Four goals in the opening half from full forward Katie Ni Choileain paved the way for Kilmessan and deservedly she claimed the player of the match award.
Kilmessan playing into a very strong wind opened the scoring with an Aileen Donnelly point from play, a free from distance levelled the score for Donard but when Frances Lynch broke through the centre for her sides first goal, the Meath champions settled and began to enforce their running play. Despite bringing extra players around the middle sector and aided by the wind, Donard had no answer to Kilmessan's attack and after some clever play into Ni Choileain she turned her marker easily and used her pace to skip past another before rifling to the net. Her second goal was almost a carbon copy of the first this time striking off her stick, two more from the same player before the 25 minute really ended the match as a contest along with points from Donnelly, Megan Thynne and Kelly Gorman. Donard claimed another pointed free just before the break.
Aided with the wind in the second period Kilmessan really opened up the Donard defence and after Donnelly scored her sides sixth goal, the attack started to strike from distance scoring points from all sorts of angles with even half back Maeve O'Leary who had an excellent match popping up to score. Indeed the loudest roar from the huge crowd of Kilmessan supporters was for a yellow card issued to the aforementioned O'Leary after she made what looked like an excellent legitimate challenge, an opinion clearly shared by the Kilmessan crowd. The Mesth champs ran our comfortable winners on a scoreline of 6-20 to 1-3. Whilst there was excellent displays all over the field, special mention to O'Leary, Frances Lynch at midfield and player of the match Ni Choileain.
Kilmessan now take on Cavan champions Lacken in the all Ireland semi final on Sunday 9th November. Time and date tbc
Kilmessan team and scorers: A. Carroll, M. Horan, C. O'Leary, N. Sheridan, T. King, A. Lynch, M. O'Leary (0-1), F. Lynch (1-0), S. Horan(0-1), N. Doyle (0-1), A. Donnelly (1-4, 0-2f), M. Ni Choileain (0-2), M. Thynne (0-5), K. Ni Choileain (4-0), K. Gorman (0-5)
Subs: L. Irwin for N. Sheridan, S. Ross (0-1) for A. Donnelly, J. Smyth for C. O'Leary, E. Fitzgerald for M. Horan, O. Doyle for K. Ni Choileain, A. Gorman, A. Mc Loughlin, D. Fitzgerald, B. Dennehy, C. Grimes, H. King, K. Clynch, S. Curtis, ME. Sheridan, T. Murphy.
