Big win for Clooney-Quin

Clooney-Quin 1-11
Wolfe Tones 1-5

Clooney-Quin ran out eventual winners in this second round tie in Newmarket on Sunday afternoon. Both teams went into the game having lost their opening match and knowing that a win was vital to keep their championship hopes alive.

Clooney-Quin had the upper hand for the opening 10 minutes, Deirdre Murphy, Aisling Corbett and Claire Ryan registering four points. With Wolfe Tones starting to come into the game, Laura Linnane pulled a point back for the Shannon side in the 11th minute.

Clooney-Quin’s goal followed two minutes later when Murphy sent a long range free to the square, which deceived a crowded Wolfe Tones goal line and dipped under the bar to give Clooney-Quin a 1-5 to 0-2 advantage.

The rest of that opening period was played out predominantly in the middle of the field, with both sets of defenders working hard to keep the danger areas clear leaving Clooney ahead 1-6 to 0-3 at half time.

Murphy converted two points on the restart before Linnane pulled one back for Wolfe Tones. Linnane was to the fore for the Tones’ goal, with a well-placed long range free into the square which Dawn Ryan finished to the Clooney net to reduce the deficit to three points with 10 minutes gone in the second half.

Wolfe Tones battled hard for the remainder of the match but despite the best efforts of Evelyn McGurl and Rachel O’Brien up front they could not grab the scores they needed, while at the other end Murphy slotted home three more points for Clooney-Quin to see them run out winners.

Clooney-Quin: Sheelagh Daffy; Imelda Colleran, Aisling Hannon, Nicole O’Riordan; Jessica O’Neill, Orlaith Duggan, Jenny Costelloe; Edwina O’Brien, Christine Colleran; Siobhán Lee, Deirdre Murphy, Lorraine Ryan; Marie Halpin, Claire Ryan, Aisling Corbett.
Sub: Kelly MacLean for Lorraine Ryan.

Wolfe Tones: Sinead Walsh; Aoife Nihill, Avril O’Dea, Hayley Nolan; Leanne Boyle, Sinead Donovan, Leanne McInerney; Lorraine Carr, Claire O’Brien; Laura Linnane, Aisling McInerney, Ciara McCall; Rachel O’Brien, Evelyn McGurl, Dawn Ryan.
Subs: Sinead Kelly for Rachel O’Brien (45 mins); Ciara Fitzgerald for Aisling McInerney (50 mins); Lizzie Danagher for Dawn Ryan (52 mins).

Referee: John Dolan, Clarecastle.

Kilmaley 3-15
Inagh-Kilnamona 0-4

A storming second half performance by Kilmaley on Sunday evening in Shannon earned them their second win of the PK Travel Senior Championship.

Kilmaley accounted for the first three points of the game, before Claire McMahon goaled in the tenth minute. Kilmaley had another two points on the board before Patricia O’Loughlin opened the scoring for Inagh-Kilnamona with a well-struck point from 30 yards.

Fiona Lafferty added another two minutes later. The sides traded score for score in the last 10 minutes of the half, leaving Kilmaley ahead 1-8 to 0-4 at the break.

Kilmaley dominated the second half, and though Inagh-Kilnamona did have their scoring chances, their inability to convert cost them. Kilmaley’s Aisling O’Halloran heaped further misery on Inagh-Kilnamona when she struck for two goals in the last 10 minutes, leaving Kilmaley comfortable winners. 

Kilmaley: Edel Griffey; Lisa Kennedy, Denise Lynch, Sinead O’Halloran; Niamh Cahill, Katie Cahill, Niamh O’Dea; Aida Griffey, Shonagh Enright (0-2); Eimear Considine, Emma O’Driscoll (0-1), Claire McMahon (1-10); Aisling Darcy (0-1), Aisling O’Halloran (2-0), Ailish Considine (0-1).
Subs: Siobhán White for Aisling O’Halloran; Sarah Reidy for Lisa Kennedy; Aisling O’Halloran for Siobhán White; Leighanne McMahon for Ailish Considine.

Inagh-Kilnamona: Brid McCarthy; Sinead Quinn, Siobhán Lafferty, Gillian Lafferty; Michelle Wynne, Sinead O’Loughlin, Christina Glynn; Jennifer Griffin, Noelle Bergin; Helen Hehir, Laura Rynne, Patricia O’Loughlin (0-1); Catherine O’Loughlin, Fiona Lafferty (0-3), Emily Lynch.
Sub: Grace Lynch for Gillian Lafferty.

Referee: Jim Hickey.

Sixmilebridge 3-6 
Kilkishen 2-8

Kilkishen got off to a great start with a point followed by a Norah Murray goal in the opening two minutes of the game. Sixmilebridge’s Naomi Carroll responded with a point.
Kilkishen got two more points on the board before Sinead Touhy got Sixmilebridge’s first goal.

Kilkishen got another two scores on the board, one from a free, which was cancelled out by a Naomi Carroll converted free. Sixmilebridge responded with another point from Aiveen O’Shea before Michelle Moroney and Naomi Carroll exchanged points before the half-time whistle, which left Kilkishen leading 1-6 to 1-5.

Kate O’Gorman added to Kilkishen’s lead with a goal in the opening five minutes of the second half which she followed up with a converted free. Naomi Carroll opened the ‘Bridge’s second half with a point from play.

The next score didn’t come until the 24th minute when Sixmilebridge’s Rachael O’Halloran rattled the Kilkishen net, the ’Bridge girls added to their lead when Naomi Carroll goaled in the next minute. Kilkishen were awarded a 21-yard free in the dying minutes, deflected over the bar by Orla Chaplin, leaving one point between the sides.

Sixmilebridge: Niamh McInerney; Ann Sweeney, Chloe Morey, Orla Chaplin; Ciara Whelan, Maire McGrath, Katie Connors; Antoinette Keane, Bridget O’Halloran; Rachael O’Halloran (1-0), Aiveen O’Shea (0-1), Ellen Roche; Sinead Touhy (1-0), Naomi Carroll (1-5), Mairead Hyland.
Subs: Alison Quinlan for A Keane.

Kilkishen: Clare Baker; Caroline Sheedy, Nollaig Baker, Marie Nash; Ciara Ryan, Siobhán Kiniry, Lisa Loughnane; Cushla Hehir, Kate Lynch; Kate O’Gorman, Michelle Moroney, Noelle McNamara; Norah Murphy, Orla Moroney, Marie McNamara.