U14 Div1 Championship Qtr Final

Walterstown 3-8 Ratoath 2-9

The U14s from Walterstown & Ratoath renewed rivalries on a warm clammy Thursday evening in Ratoath in the U14 Championship. These two sides have met regularly already this season sharing the major U14 Div1 trophies between them with Ratoath securing the Feile title defeating Walterstown in the final while newly promoted Walterstown secured the Div1 League title defeating Ratoath @ the semi-final stage of that competition. With this high stakes & a hand-full of Meath U14 Development squad players in each team the standard of football was expected to be high and did not disappoint the large crowd in attendance.

On their home turf, Ratoath played "towards the road" with a strong breeze behind them in the 1st half and got off to an ideal start picking off two points before Walterstown picked off their 1st score of the evening when they rattled the Ratoath net and followed this up quickly with a well taken point. Unfazed Ratoath battled on and found the net twice during the 1st half and stretched their lead over the course of the 1st half to go in 7pts to the good @ half time.

HT: Ratoath 02:06 (12) v Walterstown 01:02 (5)

A revitalized Walterstown appeared in the second half with the wind at their backs and within 7mins had the deficit back to the minimum as they added a 01:03 to their tally. Over the course of the next 6-7 minutes the game was in the melting pot and the sides traded scores before Walterstown struck the next again and secured the lead, a lead they would never relinquish despite constant Ratoath pressure.

In the end Walterstown ran out 2pts to the good in a fantastic game of football signifying all that is good about our game & juvenile football in Meath.

FT: Ratoath 02:09 (15) v Walterstown 03:08 (17)

Walterstown Squad on the night: J Doyle, E Cosgrove, D Freeman, J Cullen, C Leonard, J Kiernan, T Sowunmi, A Barrett, D Murphy, A Treanor, S McGinley, L Cullen, D Finnegan, C McGuire, M Kelly & C Farrelly.

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