Ardee Community School win Lennon Cup<\/a><\/p>\nThe Ulster champions were sharp and clinical when chances presented themselves, while the Leinster representatives struggled initially to settle.\u00a0Carrickmore registered the first chance inside two minutes, shooting wide, but it was an early warning.<\/p>\n
By the fourth minute, joint captain Aoibhinn Daly had opened the scoring from a placed ball to put the Tyrone side ahead.\u00a0Daly was influential throughout as her accuracy and composure provided a steady stream of scores in the opening half.<\/p>\n
Further points followed on nine and twelve minutes, the second created by Daly\u2019s long delivery, which Michaela Daly knocked over the bar, and suddenly St. Kevins were chasing the game without yet troubling the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
The contest tilted decisively in the space of four minutes midway through the half.\u00a0Midfielder Sorcha Gormley produced a moment of real quality as she embarked on a surging solo run before finishing emphatically to the net.<\/p>\n
Before Kevins could regroup, Carrickmore struck again when a high delivery from Niamh McElduff caused problems, and L\u00e9anne McKernan got on the end of it to score past Tara Reilly.<\/p>\n
St. Kevins’ joint captain R\u00f3is\u00edn Maguire finally opened her side\u2019s account with a well-taken point on 24 minutes before they found a lifeline just before the break.<\/p>\n
Amy Murray struck a speculative effort from distance on the half-hour mark, and it dipped deceivingly over the Carrickmore goalkeeper and into the net to cut the deficit to five points.<\/p>\n
However, a late Aoibhinn Daly free ensured Carrickmore went in six clear at the interval with the sense that St. Kevins would need something special in the second half.<\/p>\n
Half time: St. Kevins 1-1 \u00c9ire \u00d3g Carrickmore 2-4<\/p>\n
The second half breeze now favoured the Louth side and\u00a0Lucy Sheridan and Aoife Gregory began to find pockets of space, while the Kevins’ defence tightened to limit Carrickmore to fewer clear-cut chances.<\/p>\n
Points from Sheridan (free) and Gregory narrowed the gap before Amy Murray added another from play late on.\u00a0Goalkeeper Tara Reilly pushed upfield in the dying moments and pointed to reduce the margin with time almost up.<\/p>\n
Carrickmore stood firm under late pressure with gallant defending to see out the closing minutes and seal the victory.\u00a0In the end, the better side on the day won. But for St. Kevins, this was not an ending, rather, a beginning.<\/p>\n
Full time:\u00a0St. Kevins 1-5 \u00c9ire \u00d3g Carrickmore 2-7.<\/p>\n
St. Kevins: Tara Reilly (0-1); Carole Ann Logue, Leah Cunningham, Lily Carter; Aoife Gregory (0-1), Claragh Cunningham, Aoife Carroll; Gemma Murray (jc), R\u00f3is\u00edn Maguire (jc) (0-1); Lucy Sheridan (0-1, 1f), Gr\u00e1inne Murray, Amy Murray (1-1); Katie Mathews, Grace King, Sophie Cunningham.<\/p>\n
Subs: Caoimhe Cunningham on for Caoimhe Mason, Grace King on for Lily Carter, Mary Taaffe on for Aoife Carroll, Lauren Gregory for Gemma Murray.<\/p>\n
\u00c9ire \u00d3g Carrickmore: Tara Haughey; N\u00e9amhnnn N\u00ed Donnghaile, Emma C\u00e1it Gallagher, Aoibh Kerr; Bl\u00e1thnait Kerr, R\u00f3ise Kerr, \u00d3rlaith McElduff; Sorcha Gormley (1-0), Ciara Clarke; L\u00e9anne McKernan (1-0), Niamh McElduff (0-2), Aoibhinn Daly (jc) (0-4, 3f); Neasa McElroy, Michaela Daly (0-1), Kate Hughes.<\/p>\n
Subs: Minnie McCollon on for Micheala Daly, Aoibh Bennett for Aoibh Kerr, Aoibhinn Gallagher for Kate Hughes.<\/p>\n
Referee: Karol Collins (Galway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Kevins\u2019 camogie AIB All-Ireland Junior B Camogie Club Championship fairytale journey ended in disappointment against \u00c9ire \u00d3g…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22287,4183,4184,61,60,100935,43],"class_list":["post-190202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-camogie","tag-gaa","tag-gaelic-games","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louth-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190202","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=190202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}