St Ultans 1-18 Seneschalstown 1-8

St Ultans gained revenge for defeat to Seneschalstown in last years SFC decider with this comfortable round 4 win at Bective.

 It was a very exciting game with both teams evenly matched in the first few minutes. But St Ultans raised the bar and lead after 16 minutes by 1-7 to 0-4. After a fortuitous goal for Senchenstown the momentum temporarily changed in their favour but St Ultans finished the first half on a score line of 1-9 to 1-5. It was a very exciting game with lots of excellent football being produced.

St Ultans started the second half where they finished the first and had raced into a lead of 1-12 to 1-6 at the end of the 3rd quarter. St Ultans added a further 6 points out scoring their opponents by 9 points to 3 to end a great team effort by winning on a score line of 1-18 to 1-8.

Seneschalstown Report

Seneschalstown 1-8 St Ultan's 1-17

As one of the favourites for the 2015 Coca Cola Meath Ladies Senior Football championship, St Ultan's showed they mean business with a convincing win over Seneschalstown in Bective on Tuesday evening.  After the first 10 minutes of superb action, no-one would have predicted there would be as much between the teams at the end.

Louise Coyle opened the scoring for Seneschalstown inside thirty seconds but St Ultan's equalised on three minutes. Stacey Grimes put Seneschalstown ahead on five minutes with a point from play after Coyle got the better of her marker again but two quick for points in the seventh minute had the Ultan's in front for the first time.  St Ultan's by now had adopted a sweeper system with Coyle being double marked and despite this equalised from play on eight minutes.  Siobhan Sheridan fielded the resultant kick-out and found Róisín Commons who put the Furze Girls back in front after swinging over a fine point from play. St. Ultan's equalised in the ninth minute and in the tenth minute Seneschalstown Keeper Lisa Mullen did well to parry out a goal bound effort which was eventually tapped over the bar to give the Bohermeen Ladies the lead again. At this stage it was 0-05 to 0-04 to St Ultan's and the standard of play was excellent from both sides.

The next ten minutes was the crucial period of the game as Ultan's scored 1-04 without reply with a goal on eleven minutes and points in the twelfth, thirteenth, seventeenth and twenty first minutes to go eight clear. However in the twenty second minute Seneschalstown got a lifeline when a long range point attempt from Stacey Grimes came back of the post and Róisín Commons pounced to dispatch the ball to the roof of the St. Ultan's net.

Seneschalstown had plenty of possession from then to the short whistle but a number of wides didn't help the cause and only had a thirty second minute Grimes free following a foul on Coyle to show for their efforts. Seneschalstown, who kicked ten wides in the first half went to the break 1-05 to 1-09 down.

The second half started with Seneschalstown on the attack but it was St. Ultans who drew first blood in the thirty second minute and points in the thirty fifth and forty first minutes had them in the driving seat.  Stacey Grimes converted a free in the forty second minute again following a foul on Coyle before Lisa Mullen in the Seneschalstown goal was called into action again in the forty fourth minute.  St. Ultans added to their tally in the forty sixth and forty seventh minutes.  Lisa Mullen was called into action again in the fifty fourth and produced another fine save before St Ultans popped over two more points in the fifty fifth and fifty ninth minutes.  In the sixtieth minute the Seneschalstown net minder was again to the fore as she produced another fine save to deny St Ultans and following the clearance her sister Natasha scored a fine point with a long range effort from play before St Ultans closed their account in the sixty second minute.  Grimes popped over a free soon after to close the scoring for Seneschalstown.  The final whistle went soon after but nobody seem to hear it as both sides watched as the referee left the field not realising the game was over.

Seneschalstown have the Bye in the next round after the holiday break and play Boardsmill in their final game near the end of August.

Seneschalstown:  Lisa Mullen, Aishling Taaffe, Mena Sheridan, Orla McMahon, Natasha Mullen (0-01), Orla Garry, Adelle Carolan, Edel McGrane, Siobhan Sheridan, Kiah Geraghty, Roisin Commons (1-01), Stacey Grimes (0-04), Amy Gilsenan, Louise Coyle (0-02), Siabhra Reilly.

Subs: Shona Loughran for Kiah Geraghty, Aoife Lenehan for Siobhan Sheridan, Lizzy Doran for Siabhra Reilly, Laura Wall for Orla McMahon, Ruth Commons for Amy Gilsenan, Kelly Smith, Catherine Smith, Niamh Martin, Grace Cahalane, Katie Geraghty.

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