Coláiste Muire, Ennis hold off Scariff Community College to take camogie title

County Senior A Post-Primary Schools Camogie Championship Final
Coláiste Muire 2-14 Scariff Community College 1-9

Coláiste Muire completed another memorable season when holding off chief rivals Scariff Community College for the second successive year to capture the marquee post-primary schools honours in Fr. McNamara Park on Tuesday afternoon.
Leading from start to finish, crucial goals at either end of the tie bookended a dominant display led by scorers-in-chief Aisling Costelloe, Evie Scanlon and Elisha Rynne along with Aisling Moroney and Cliodha Queally.
Scariff Community College meanwhile never reached the heights of previous performances or perhaps weren’t let by an Ennis side that got off to an ideal start with 1-4 without reply.
Clarecastle pair Evie Scanlon (3) and Lauren Cusack began the early surge that was bolstered by an eleventh-minute solo goal through Aisling Costelloe who cut in from the right before rattling the net.
Scariff finally got off the mark with an Eimear Rodgers ’45 a minute later but that six-point gap would remain until the break after points from the excellent Costelloe (2) and Scanlon were matched by Rodgers, Dannielle Beston and substitute Rachel Danaher at 1-7 to 0-4.
Crucially Colaiste Muire were always able to up the ante when required as an opening Eimear Rodgers free was swallowed up by points for Evie Scanlon (2), Elisha Rynne (2) and Costelloe to soar 1-12 to 0-5 clear. And even when the East Clare side did rally with a goal through Caoimhe McNulty entering the final quarter, within two minutes it was cancelled out by a Rynne goal at the other end as Coláiste Muire completed a County Senior and Junior A double over Scariff Community College.

Coláiste Muire: Grace McMahon (Newmarket-on-Fergus); Sinead Hastings (Ruan), Hannah Doyle (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield) (Captain), Maeve Begley (Newmarket-on-Fergus); Neasa Ní Lachtnáin (Ruan), Cliodhna Queally (Inagh-Kilnamona), Caoimhe Ryan (Banner); Aisling Moroney (Ruan), Orna Moynihan (Clooney-Quin); Clodagh Quinn (Clooney-Quin), Evie Scanlon (Clarecastle), Aimee Colleran (Crusheen); Aisling Costelloe (Ballyea), Elisha Rynne (Inagh-Kilnamona), Lauren Cusack (Clarecastle)
Subs: Zoe Ellingstad (Clarecastle) for Cusack (47), Emily Carmody (Kilmaley) for Rynne (54), Lyndsay Clarke (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield) for Quinn (56), Cara McInerney (Inagh-Kilnamona) for Costelloe (56)

Scorers: Aisling Costelloe (1-5, 1f); Evie Scanlon (0-6f); Elisha Rynne (1-2); Lauren Cusack (0-1)

Scariff Community College: Nisha O’Neill (Scariff-Ogonnelloe); Claire Minogue (Bodyke), Tara Murnane (Scariff-Ogonnelloe), Lana McDermott (Whitegate); Caoimhe McNulty (Scariff-Ogonnelloe), Alison Collins (Scariff-Ogonnelloe), Roisin Collins (Scariff-Ogonnelloe); Lorraine Grady (Scariff-Ogonnelloe) (Captain), Dannielle Beston (Scariff-Ogonnelloe); Sarah Wiley (Bodyke), Labhaoise O’Donnell (Scariff-Ogonnelloe), Aine Rodgers (Scariff-Ogonnelloe); Eimear Rodgers (Scariff-Ogonnelloe), Corina Hynes (Whitegate), Sinead McMahon (Feakle-Killanena)
Subs: Rachel Danaher (Scariff-Ogonnelloe) for McMahon (21), Joanna Grady (Scariff-Ogonnelloe) for Hynes (HT)

Scorers: Eimear Rodgers (0-5, 3f, 1’45); Caoimhe McNulty (1-1); Rachel Danaher, Danielle Beston, Labhaoise O’Donnell (0-1 each)

Referee: Noel Quinn (Gort)

County Senior B Post-Primary Schools Camogie Championship Final
St Anne’s Community College Killaloe 3-18 Rice College Ennis 4-10

A seven-goal, 80-minute thriller provided a fitting end to the senior decider fare in Fr. McNamara Park on Tuesday afternoon when St Anne’s Killaloe finally edged the B honours after extra-time.
In a compellingly evenly-matched final, neither side deserved to lose but St Anne’s greater stamina eventually shone through to outscore their flagging opponents by 1-6 to 0-4 in the additional periods.
Captain Abby Walsh’s experience was pivotal to St Anne’s success as were the scoring contributions of Amy McCarthy (1-2), Karen O’Mahony (1-1), Lucy Pearl (0-3), Siobhan McNamara (0-3) and clinching goalscorer Zoe Loughran.
So while Rice College clearly had the best player on show in the outstanding Caoimhe Cahill who finished with 2-5, ably assisted by injury-hampered Aoife Anderson and centre-back colossus Sophie Torpey, St Anne’s better balance up front was incrementally difficult to contain.

St Anne’s Killaloe: Anna Hanly (Ballina); Kate Ryan (Ballina), Eimear Heffernan (Scariff-Ogonnelloe), Ellen O’Donnell (Ballina); Elitza O’Connor (Ballina), Roisin Murnane (Smith O’Brien’s), Aine Boland (Broadford); Abby Walsh (Scariff-Ogonnelloe), Ella Ryan Meaney (Truagh-Clonlara); Amy McCarthy (Ballina), Sarah McNamara (Smith O’Brien’s), Lucy Pearl (Smith O’Brien’s); Ava Neary (Ballina), Siobhan McMahon (Smith O’Brien’s), Karen O’Mahony (Smith O’Brien’s)
Subs: Aoife Coleman (Smith O’Brien’s) for Ryan (HT), Zoe Loughran (Ballina) for McNamara (52)

Scorers: Abby Walsh (0-7, 4f, 1’45); Amy McCarthy (1-2); Karen O’Mahony (1-1); Lucy Pearl, Siobhan McMahon (0-3 each); Zoe Loughran (1-0); Ava Neary (0-2)

Rice College: Brooke McInerney (Clarecastle); Emily Kelly (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield), Saoirse Barry (Ruan), Aoibhinn McGrath (Banner); Rachel Mahony (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield), Sophie Torpey (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield), Niamh Davies (Éire Óg); Aoife Anderson (Ruan), Ruth Walsh (Banner); Kate Moran (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield), Ciara Hegarty (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield), Lily-Mae Lyons (Ruan); Avril Lillis (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield), Caoimhe Cahill (Kilmaley), Sheena Beirne (Clooney-Quin)
Subs: Hannah McDermott (Éire Óg) for McGrath (35), Aedin Wynne (Ruan) for Lyons (42), Sophie Haugh (Ruan) for Lillis (52), Kate Howard (St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield) for Hegarty (60, inj), Hegarty for Howard (ET), Michelle Callinan (Ruan) for Mahony (68-70), Lillis for Haugh (77), Kaylin Mulcahy (Éire Óg) for McInerney (82, inj)

Scorers: Caoimhe Cahill (2-5); Aoife Anderson (1-4, 2f, 1’45); Avril Lillis (1-0); Sophie Torpey (0-1f)

Referee: Kevin Walsh (Wolfe Tones)