Junior ladies excel under pressure
Our junior ladies played Cloyne in County League at home in Glanworth, our girls were put under pressure from the get-go as we only had a panel of 13 facing a panel of 19 from Cloyne.
The first 5 minutes saw Christine Quirke taking the lead with a goal quickly followed by Megan Blackburne adding another goal to the score sheet. Caroline Leamy arrived at 14 minutes in, and she rolled her sleeves up and got to work, the next 2 points came from Megan, with Christine Quirke piping up with another goal to follow and Holly popped the next 2 points over the bar, heading into half time leading 3-4 to 0-3.
Looking good for second half and hoping the speed of the game wouldn’t tire our 14 girls as we had no subs, but we had no need to worry even though Cloyne got a steady point every 5 minutes or so. Holly Quirke 4 minutes in taking her point from a free, Christine followed with another point and just be sure Holly Quirke added another goal finishing off with point from Megan Blackburne and leaving a winning score of 4-7 to 0-9 at full time.
A very well deserved result as the girls worked very well and fought hard to keep the pace and speed of this game even though Cloyne were lucky to have subs to put new legs on the field this didn’t faze our players in any way. Huge credit to Aisling Desmond staying to the end. Next up is Carrigtwohill in the County League.
Team: Ellen Barry Lynes, Aishling Dennehy, Aisling Desmond, Meadhbh Desmond, Claire Hazelwood, Ella May Fahy, Aofie Walsh, Brid Cotter, Ciara Burke, Megan Blackburne(1-4), Caroline Leamy, Holly Quirke (1-2), Christine Quirke (1-1), Cait O’Brien.
U12
U12 North Cork League v St Mary’s Blue lined out last Wednesday evening also at home. Ailbhe Kane quickly got to work with a goal, adding another point by Ailbhe and quickly followed by combination of Sophia Wilson and Ailbhe Kane with another goal and all in just the first 4 minutes of the game.
Sophia added another point from a free, and at half time we were up 2-3 to 0-0. Facing into the wind in the second half Sophia started with a point and Sarah McSweeney added 2 amazing goals from outfield. Finishing up with 5-5 to 0-3.
Team: Jorja Curran, Abbie Browne, Aoife O’Leary, Clodagh Bradley, Emilie Farrell, Emily Burke, Emma Casey, Kate O’Farrell, Molly O’Farrell, Saoirse Coleman, Maeve Casey, Saoirse Russell, Sophia Wilson (4p) Ciara Linehan, Ailbhe Kane (3g1p) Sarah McSweeney (2g) Lauren O’Connor, Áine Bradley, Julia Kucsba, Aishling Quish.
U14
The U14s had the North Cork C final on Sunday evening at home v Araglen Desmond’s Bui, the girls fought as hard as they could against a very strong Araglen Desmonds Bui. Nearly 22 minutes in Alisha Roche got our first score with a point, Emma Gibson burst through for a goal, at half time we were down 4-8 to 1-1. In fairness to our players they came out at half time and fought hard right to the end. Abbie O’Dwyer took the first point starting the 2nd half, Erica burst through with another point and finishing up with a point from Dalicia Kisambu, finishing up with 5-10 to 1-04. A deserved North Cork win for Araglen Desmonds Bui and we wish them well in the County.
Team: Chloe O’Dwyer, Emily Walsh, Erica Hanrahan, Abbie Burke, Sorcha Madden, Aoibhe Mackessy, Shona O’Farrell, Ava Nolan, Leah Burke, Abigail O’Dwyer, Emma Gibson, Ava Hanrahan O’Sullivan, Molly O’Farrell, Alisha Roche, Ciara Linehan, Lucy Fuller, Amber Gibberd, Dalicia Kisambu, Sophia Wilson, Clodagh Bradley.
FIXTURES
U8 football challenge v Fermoy at 6.30pm venue Fermoy Thursday 18th. U16 North Cork League v Mallow at 7.30pm venue Mallow Thursday 18th. U12 North Cork League v Ballycastle at 10.30am venue Glanworth Saturday 20th. Junior County League v Carrigtwohill at tbc, venue Carrigtwohill Monday 22nd.
SPONSOR NIGHT OUT
We had the great pleasure of hosting a club night in O’Donnell’s Bar. Thanking our new sponsors of 3 sets of jerseys, our U12s receiving a set from Flynn’s Shop, U16s from Viv O’Donnell and our Juniors from Desmond Ag Services. Also Sean O’Neill of Ollien Engineering sponsored our victorious county tops for the junior girls.
We honoured our mentors from the county win on the night, also
receiving tops - Angela Campbell, Ger Browne, Helena Browne, Mattie Noonan, Vincent Fahy, Winston Barry and Joe Nolan. With Tom Barrett as our MC and a great turn out from juniors and community we expressed our thanks and appreciation to our new sponsors. We were blown away by the generosity shown by all and our players wear their new jerseys proudly. Go raibh míle maith agaibh.