Waterford Camogie notes
June 23, 2014In the summer sunshine, Waterford Camogie Intermediate team traveled to Rathmoylan to play Meath on 21st June for the first round of the 2014 Liberty Insurance All Ireland Championship. In the true sense of the meaning of a game of two halves Waterford were the eventual winners on a score of 1-09 to 1-07 but had to work extremely hard for the win.
The match started with Waterford scoring a point when Karen Kelly converted a free after 5 minutes but was quickly cancelled out when the Meath's player of the match Jane Dolan scored her first point of the afternoon. Waterford's next score came from Nicola Morrissey after receiving a pass from her Lismore clubmate Shona Curran and was followed by a Niamh Rockett point from play.
The workrate of the entire team was impressive and it needed to be as Meath were creating chances but Waterford's defensive partnership of Fiona Morrissey, Claire Whyte and Mairead Murphy were restricting clear scoring chances and when Meath did break the defence players such as Trish Jackman, Charlotte Raher and Sinead Cummins were working back to foil their attempts.
Waterford extended their lead when Karen Kelly scored our goal after a Niamh Rockett pass into her followed by a Trish Jackman free for Waterford to lead 1-04 to 0-01 after 15 minutes. Meath's Jane Dolan converted another free to finish Meath's scores in the first half but they always looked threatening in possession. After 20 minutes Meath sent in a free and once again Waterford's goalkeeper Becky Kavanagh and her defensive team smothered out a Meath goal chance. A Karen Kelly free and Trish Jackman 45 extended Waterford's lead and Shona Curran was unlucky not to have a goal scoring chance when she made an excellent run into space but mis-judged a ball that bounced high on the hard surface. The half ended with Nicola Morrissey scoring her second point from play for Waterford to lead 1-07 to 0-02.
Meath started the second half strongly and in the first 5 minutes scored a total of 1-02 for no reply with all scores coming from the hurley of Meaths's Jane Dolan. First up was a converted free followed almost immediately by a goal when she fired into the Waterford net and finished with a point from play. A further point from Aoife McGuire reduced the deficit to two points. There is no doubt that Meath were exerting some serious pressure on Waterford and could have been worse when the ball ended up in the Waterford net but was denied due to square ball.
When Waterford managed to work the ball down the pitch the Meath defense stood firm and some promising scoring positions were sent wide. Another Jane Dolan converted free reduced the difference between the sides to the bare minimum. It was not until 20 minutes into the second half that Waterford registered their first score when Trish Jackman converted a 45. Meath were not finished and Jane Dolan scored another point to close the gap. As full time approached Waterford had a few wides from promising positions and it was not until into injury time that Trish Jackman fired over a free to finish our scoring.
The fulltime whistle blew shortly after and Waterford could claim their first points of the 2014 Liberty Insurance Championship. Waterford's next match is against Cork on Saturday 28th June (venue yet to be decided) .
The Waterford team were: Becky Kavanagh, Fiona Morrissey, Claire Whyte, Mairead Murphy, Trisha Jackman(4pts), Pauline Cunningham, Sinead Cummins, Charlotte Raher, Karen Kelly (1-02), Shona Curran, Nicola Morrissey(2pts), Lorraine Bray, Valerie O'Brien, Niamh Rockett (1pt), Clara Hogan, Shauna Kiernan, Shauna Prendergast and Zoe O'Donoghue.
Subs used: Zoe O'Donoghue for Valerie O'Brien (40 mins)
2014 U16B All Ireland Championship
The 2014 U16B championship commences on 29th June when Waterford host Cork. In 2013 Cork denied Waterford the All Ireland when they won a thrilling final in Mallow last September. Our panel of players will hope to get off to a strong start in the 2014 championship. In addition to Cork, Waterford will face Antrim, Derry and Tipperary over the next month.
Non County Player League
This league commenced on Friday last and fixtures included Portlaw hosting Lismore and St. Anne's host Gailltir. This is an important league for most of these players as gametime is still maintained while the County Intermediate panel and County U16 players are unavailable due to inter county fixtures.
U12 Leagues
Section A
With Round 2 of the league behind us now we can see a clearer picture of team performance. This past week Brickey Rangers travelled to De la Salle and won the match giving them two wins from their first two matches. Butlerstown recovered from their Round 1 loss and won their match against St. Anne's moving them into second place. It is difficult to see what impact Gailltir will have on final standings as they are still waiting to play their first match. Gailltir's match this week sees them travel to Brickey Rangers while De la Salle must travel to Dunhill to play St. Anne's.
Section B
Round 2 saw Clonea/St. Mollerans host Tramore. After their win against Abbeyside the previous week, Clonea/St. Mollerans were eager to continue their winning ways while Tramore lost their opening match by one point and were looking for their first points. The match ended all square in a tight encounter so both teams cannot be too dis-heartened from the result. Lismore also had their first win of the league when they won their match against Portlaw. In the third match near neighbours Abbeyside and Dungarvan faced each other and on this occasion Dungarvan were the winners.
Next weeks fixtures sees Abbeyside host Lismore, Tramore host Dungarvan and Clonea/St. Mollerans host Portlaw.
Section C
Round 2 has just been completed and Roanmore won against St. Anne's B to give them four points from their first two matches. Ferrybank hosted An Rinn but the western team proved to be too strong on the night and moves them onto four points also after two matches. The all western Waterford match between Cappoquin and Tallow ended in a Cappoquin win to move them up to third in the table with two points.
Next weeks matches sees the top two teams play when Roanmore have the long trek to An Rinn, while Tallow travel in the opposite direction to play Ferrybank and Cappoquin have home advantage against St. Anne's.
U16 Championship
The under 16 championship commences this week so keep reviewing this space for updates.
U18 Fixtures
The under 18 fixtures were published last week and the first matches are due to played on July 1st.
Feile 2014
Congratulations to Gailltir Camogie Club, De la Salle Camogie Club and Dungarvan's Kaeisha Tobin on taking part in this year's Feile hosted by Ulster GAA. Gailltir beat Tullamore to win the 'B' title and De la Salle beat Eglish Tyrone to win the 'C' section Shield. Well done to all players involved and to all the mentors and supporters. Tweet
