Comeragh Rangers 1-12 Southern Gaels 0-11<\/p>\n
An historic day for Comeragh Rangers from Waterford as they won the AIB Munster SFC club title for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n
It was a battle all the way to the finish, and they had to withstand a Southern Gaels second-half comeback, with the Kerry champions coming came from nine points down at half-time to just two in the closing stages.<\/p>\n
But late points from Sarah Connolly and Clodagh Power helped secure the title for the Waterford side.<\/p>\n
Katie Murray opened the scoring for Comeragh Rangers, with Ava Connolly adding a second for them as the Waterford champions enjoyed early possession.<\/p>\n
Rachel Dwyer pulled a point back for Southern Gaels from a free and a second free from her had the sides level after five minutes at two points apiece.<\/p>\n
Clodagh Power set up Mairead Power to put Comeragh back in front. Eibhlin Power added another as the Waterford side led by 0-04 to 0-02 after nine minutes.<\/p>\n
Mayers Lyons pulled a point back for Southern Gaels, before Connolly was on target again for Comeragh. Emma Murray increased their lead further, as they led by double scores, 0-06 to 0-03, after 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
That became four when Clodagh Power scored from a free as they were making full use of the wind at their backs.<\/p>\n
They increased that lead further when Emma Murray intercepted a pass to set up her sister Katie for the game’s opening goal, to make it 1-07 to 0-03.<\/p>\n
Clodagh Power stretched their lead further, with Mairead Power adding another to see the Waterford side lead by 1-09 to 0-03 at half-time.<\/p>\n
Now playing with the wind Southern Gaels started the second half on the front foot, with Jess Gill scoring from a tight angle to make it 1-09 to 0-04.<\/p>\n
Lyons added another as Comeragh were finding it difficult to get out of their own half as Southern Gaels pressed up on their kick-outs.<\/p>\n
Dwyer added another from a free and with 38 minutes gone it was 1-09 to 0-06.<\/p>\n
Anna Galvin, who had moved from centre-back to midfield, was having a big influence on the game and she kicked a superb point to reduce the deficit even further.<\/p>\n
By the time 45 minutes were played Comeragh\u2019s lead was down to three, thanks to two points from Gill as Southern Gaels were dominating at this point.<\/p>\n
Comeragh\u2019s first score of the second half came after 56 minutes when Shauna Dunphy burst forward to set up Eibhlin Power to point.<\/p>\n
But from the restart the lead was back down to three, when Dwyer scored at the other end.<\/p>\n
Another superb point from Gill had only two between the sides as the game headed for injury-time.<\/p>\n
But Comeragh kept battling and Clodagh Power scored to put three between them again.<\/p>\n
From the restart they regained possession to see Sarah Connolly point to make it 1-12 to 0-11.<\/p>\n
That proved to be the final score of the game as Comeragh Rangers win the senior title for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n
Comeragh Rangers: A Norris; K Broxson, T Kelly, O Kennedy; S Dunphy, C Murray, K Hahessy; E Murray (0-01), K Corbett Barry; A Power, M Power (0-02), A Connolly; C Power (0-03, 1f), E Power (0-02), K Murray (1-01).<\/p>\n
Subs: S Connolly (0-01) for K Hahessy (44′), E Bolger for E Power (62′).<\/p>\n
Southern Gaels: ME Bolger; C Dwyer, E O\u2019Sullivan, K Furey; J Gill (0-04), A Galvin (0-01), C McCrohan; S Fitzpatrick, M Teahan; M Lyons (0-02), E O\u2019Connell, K Foster; S Fitzgerald, S O\u2019Shea, R Dwyer (0-04, 3f).<\/p>\n
Subs: M O\u2019Connell for S Fitzgerald (ht), A Fitzgerald for C Dwyer (53).<\/p>\n
Referee: David Grogan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comeragh Rangers 1-12 Southern Gaels 0-11 An historic day for Comeragh Rangers from Waterford as they won the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-118567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}