Waterford camogie notes
July 14, 2014After a setback to Waterford Intermediate camogie teams All Ireland plans last week when they suffered their first loss of the 2014 Liberty Insurance Championship to Kilkenny, the team responded this week with an easy win against Wexford when they won on a score of 1-13 to 0-04.
Although it proved to be a straight forward win in the end it was not always sure particularly at the start of the match. Waterford opened the game brigthly but could not convert scoring chances and saw five scoreable chances sail wide of the upright. It was not until the twelfth minute that Waterford opened their scoring when Nicola Morrissey latched onto a Shona Curran pass and fired over, but two quick Wexford frees saw Waterford trail shortly after. Players in the Waterford defense such as Shauna Prendergast, Pauline Cunningham, Fiona Morrissey and Claire Whyte were restricting Wexford scoring chances and after fifteen minutes of play the Waterford midfield started to exert considerable influence on the game and two Trish Jackman scores (1f) saw us take the lead again , a lead which was never surrendered. Scores from Shona Curran and Karen Kelly finished Waterford's scoring in the first half and Waterford would have been further clear except for some more wides and good Wexford defensive play. Wexford could only score one further point before the break to leave the halftime score at 0-05 to 0-03.
Waterford came out strong at the start of the second half and extended the lead after Ruth Geoghegan was fouled and Trish Jackman converted the free. Waterford were unlucky not to score a goal when Shona Curran released Lorraine Bray but Laura Brennan in the Wexford goal made an excellent save with Waterford converted the resulting 45. Waterford didn't have to wait long for their goal and once again Lorraine Bray was on the end of some excellent Waterford play to fire the ball into the Wexford net.
Waterford restricted Wexford to two points in the second half, both frees, demonstrating the dominance that the team exerted and the hardwork performed by the defense. Waterford continued to score and points from Fiona Morrissey, Nicola Morrissey and Trish Jackman. As fulltime approached substitutes were brought on and contributed to the result and Emma Hannon scored her second point in two weeks after coming off the bench.
At fulltime the team had the result they needed are to be congratulated on an excellent team performance but need to be wary of the number of scoring chances that went wide.
This concluded Waterford's league phase of this year's Liberty Insurance Intermediate Championship in which Waterford won three of their four matches and scored a total of 7-41 and conceded 5-29 and finished with 6 points from a possible 8. At the same time that Waterford were in action against Wexford, Meath (the only team that could prevent Waterford reaching the semi-final) were playing Cork and the result from this match went in Waterford's favour with Cork beating Meath 2-12 to 0-10. There is still one round of matches to be played next week (Waterford have a bye) but the results from these matches cannot prevent Waterford playing in this year's championship semi-final.
The All Ireland semi-finals are fixed for 16th August and it looks like we will finish runners-up to Kilkenny. As the second placed team in our Group we will face the top placed team in Group 1 which looks like it will be Limerick or Galway at present.
U16s
Well done to the U16 panel that beat Antrim on Sunday on a score of 4-13 to 3-8. That's three wins from three. Next up is Tipperary.
U14s win Dublin blitz
Waterford Camogie U14 Development Squad travelled to Dublin Blitz on Saturday for the annual Paul Beecher competition. This was the first time that Waterford participated in this competition and were anxious to prove their worth.
Placed in the "B" competition, they won all their group games beating Tipperary B, Dublin B and Meath A. In the Semi Final they played Cork B and enjoyed a good win. In the final, they faced Tipperary B again, after they had defeated Kilkenny B in their semi-final. Tipperary started in a very determined manner, seeking revenge for their group stage defeat and raced into an early lead. Waterford slowly settled and by half-time had nudged ahead on the score-board. In the second-half Waterford played their best hurling of the year so far as the defence performed heroically to restrict the opposition and the forwards combined intelligently to run out comprehensive winners at the end. Gaultier's Shauna Fitzgerald, the captain proudly received the winning trophy on behalf of her team
Panel for Dublin Blitz: Katie O'Keeffe (DLS), Aisling Madigan (DLS), Ciara Kilcawley (Brickey Rangers), Aoife Hahessy (Clonea), Keeley Corbett Barry (Clonea), Aisling Baumann (Dungarvan), Alix Fitzgerald (Dungarvan), Kaiesha Tobin (Dungarvan), Annie Fitzgerald (Gailltir), Shauna Fitzgerald (Gailltir), Emma Flynn (Gailltir)Capt, Kate Lynch (Gailltir), Ciara O'Sullivan (Gailltir), Leah Sheridan (Gailltir), Mary Kate Curran (Modeligo), Margaret Ann Boylan (Portlaw), Eimear Foran (Portlaw), Aoife Fleming (St. Mollerans), Emma Norris (St. Molleran), Leah Barry (Tramore), Muireann Cuddihy (Tramore), Ciara Griffin (Tramore), Sally Kelly (Tramore)
Well done to all the players and this is another example at all the excellent work that is occurring at underage level in Waterford camogie.
Non County Player League Final
The final of the Non County Player League will be played between Cappoquin and Gailltir. Cappoquin had beaten both Lismore and Portlaw to reach the final while Gailltir needed a win against Butlerstown last Friday to secure their place in rge final. The date for the final has not been set yet.
U16s Championship
The second round of the U16 championship was held last week.
Section A
De la Salle followed up their win against their first round opponents of Brickey Rangers with another win against Dungarvan this week. Due to a postponed match in Round 1, Gailltir had their first match this week against Cappoquin and won the match. Although only two rounds have been completed in this section, it looks like the strong teams in this section are De la Salle and Gailltir and it will be interesting to see the result when these two teams meet in the next round. Both of these two teams have a large contingent of County U14 and U16 squad players so the match will go along way to deciding overall final table positions.
Section B
After winning their first match in the championship, Tramore faced Lismore in the second round. In a closely contested match the Lismore side were victorious on this occasion. The match between Clonea and Ferrybank has been rescheduled for this week while An Rinn had a bye.
Section C
Roanmore hosted St.Molleran's this week and St. Molleran's proved too strong on this occasion. Tallow hosted Abbeyside and the homeside were victorious.
U12 League
The final round of U12 matches were played this past week and the following is the status of the various sections:
Section A
Butlerstown had mixed form recently, they won their match against St. Anne's but couldn't follow up the result against De la Salle when they lost. In the last week Gailltir then faced Butlerstown and won the match which meant that Gailltir topped the table and are the U12 A champions for 2014.
Section B
Lismore beat St. Molleran's in their final match of the league
Section C
An Rinn continue their winning ways when they beat Tallow. The Roanmore v Cappoquin match has been rescheduled. Tweet
