Knockbride (Cavan) 3-10 Caltra Cuans (Galway) 0-04<\/p>\n
Sarah McCabe, Gia McCabe and Katie Rogers were among the goals at Croke Park as Knockbride became the first team from Cavan to win an AIB All-Ireland intermediate club championship, courtesy of an emphatic 3-10 to 0-04 win over Galway’s Caltra Cuans.<\/p>\n
Following a tentative start, Knockbride stormed into life with a breakthrough goal on six minutes. After Abbi Connor was fouled inside the square at the end of a fast-paced attacking move, Knockbride skipper Sarah McCabe stepped forward to drill home the resulting penalty.<\/p>\n
This major provided the Ulster champions with a significant confidence boost and with Aoife Nulty and Connor (free) splitting the uprights in quick succession, Ciaran Galligan\u2019s charges were five points clear before the clock had reached 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Breffni County side continued to take the game to their western counterparts and their chances of success were significantly bolstered when a looping shot from player of the match Gia McCabe floated into the Caltra net for a 19th minute goal.<\/p>\n
Connor increased her tally with a second pointed free moments later and this helped to propel Knockbride towards a 2-03 to 0-00 interval cushion.<\/p>\n
This lead was extended on the resumption with another expertly taken point from Connor, but the Cavan outfit did miss a golden opportunity to raise another green flag when Sarah McCabe fired wide off her second penalty in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n
Knockbride nevertheless maintained a tight grip on proceedings with a fourth Connor point, before 2010 All-Ireland junior champions Caltra finally opened their account on 43 minutes when wing-back Caoimhe Ni Cheallaigh superbly found the target with the outside of her right foot.<\/p>\n
Yet instead of sparking a revival from the Galway and Connacht champions, this served as the catalyst for Knockbride to reinforce their authority.<\/p>\n
Supplementing points from substitute Ellie Reilly (two), Connor and Gia McCabe, full-forward Katie Rogers bagged a third goal for the Breffni women with just over 13 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
While the instrumental Sarah Noone kicked a fine point of her own for Caltra, Connor\u2019s dead-ball accuracy ensured Knockbride responded immediately at the opposite end.<\/p>\n
The hard-working Noone did contribute a brace of points for Caltra as the final whistle approached, but this couldn\u2019t deny Knockbride a historic victory at GAA headquarters.<\/p>\n
Scorers \u2013 Knockbride: A Connor 0-6 (5f), G McCabe 1-1, S McCabe 1-0 (pen), K Rogers 1-0, E Reilly 0-2, A Nulty 0-1. Caltra Cuans: S Noone 0-3, C Ni Cheallaigh 0-1.<\/p>\n
Knockbride: K Mulvey; A Rogers, A Lynch, N Rogers; E Lynch, S O\u2019Reilly, N Smith; T Rogers, KM Reilly; G McCabe, S McCabe; A Nulty; R Davey, K Rogers, A Connor. Subs: E Reilly for Davey (37), G Smith for Lynch (51), D Donohoe for Nulty (53), A Reilly for Rogers (54), J Clarke for Connor (56).<\/p>\n
Caltra Cuans: T Loughnane; C McCabe, N Conway, H Cullinane; A Murray, S Noone, C Ni Cheallaigh; E Bleahene, A Fitzpatrick; R Bleahene, S Murray, C Mullins; C Murray, E Reaney, L Naughton. Subs: M Kelly for Conway (6-13, blood), M Kelly for Mullins (21), E Naughton for Murray (48), D Kelly for R Bleahene (54), O Hannon for Murray, A Quinn for McCabe (both 56).<\/p>\n
Referee: Kevin Phelan (Laois).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knockbride (Cavan) 3-10 Caltra Cuans (Galway) 0-04 Sarah McCabe, Gia McCabe and Katie Rogers were among the goals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-190104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190104","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=190104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}