Westmeath LGF Div. 1 League: Mullingar Shamrocks 1-14 The Downs 4-8

Another superb game of LGF played in sweltering heat in Springfield with The Downs holding out for a victory that was probably deserved on the run of play.

The ability to score goals was the decisive factor in deciding the destination of the league points. A goal each from Leanne Duncan and Katie Daly before the interval and a third shortly after restart by Jill Ferguson were the vital scores on this occasion. The Downs held an interval lead of 2-5 to 0-9 despite the efforts of Emma Morris who was a one-woman scoring machine for Shamrocks in this half. Class is permanent. Emma kicked 0-7 in the first half with Susanna Buckley and Faye Walshe also scoring points. Emma's third point was a particularly noteworthy effort as it followed a great save from Lauren McCormack and this initiated a move that ended at the opposite end with a point for Shamrocks and a 0-3 to 0-2 lead.

Shamrocks responded to Jill Ferguson's goal with points from Chloe Swarbrigg and Emma Morris and with a couple of good saves from Lauren Shamrocks were again in contention. However, a fourth goal from Ellen Tate was a killer blow (4-6 to 0-11).  Emma Morris kicked two more points before delivering a wonderful sixty yards pass to send Anna Jones through on goal and despite the best efforts of The Downs goalkeeper Sarah Maguire, Anna goaled at the second attempt with help from Susanna Buckley who also added a point in Shamrocks next attack (1-14 to 4-8). A couple of goal scoring opportunities by Anna Jones were foiled by Sarah Maguire (from a famous The Downs goalkeeping family) and with the final whistle the league points were heading out the motorway.

There were plenty of positives for Shamrocks and apart from those already mentioned there were great individual displays from Rachel Hannigan, Melek Fagan prior to her injury, Tara Fagan, Michelle Buckley and of course an exhibition from Emma Morris. The best is yet to come. And a few holidaymakers to return! 

Mullingar Shamrocks: Lauren McCormack; Rachel Hannigan, Carla Gibney, Lorna Morris (Ellen Sleator) ; Melek Fagan (Allison Bane), Tara Fagan, Chloe Swarbrigg (0-1); Anna Jones (1-0), Michelle Buckley; Susanna Buckley (0-2), Casey McDermott, Faye Walshe (0-1) [Sarah Geoghegan]; Liveta Lazauskaite (Katie Kelly), Emma Morris (0-10), Sarah Geoghegan (Carole Finch).     

The Week at Under Age Level ...

Our Under-16 LGF team started their campaign with the visit of Caulry to Springfield on Tuesday evening. Shamrocks started brightly scoring a goal with their first attack but unfortunately Caulry took control limiting our attacks while moving the ball faster in all areas of the field and taking their own scores to lead at half time. The second half was better for our girls and they started to play a lot better and convert their chances but unfortunately they left themselves too much to do. Even though we were on the wrong side of the result there is positives to be taken from the game.

Mullingar Shamrocks: Chloe Flood McCormack; Elyse Byrne, Sinead Battle,Nelly Nwokiewu;  Aine McKenna, Robin Wrafter, Abby Smith; Mairead Newman, Annemarie O'Reilly; Jenna Kelly, Jasmine Haugh, Eve Hynes; Mia Gilligan, Sadhbh O’Brien,Molly Byrne; Niamh Raeside, Leah Glynn, Megan Reid.

Our Under-16 footballers travelled to Milltown on Monday night and an under-strength team were well beaten by Millmore Gaels (4-11 to 1-6). On Wednesday evening, we fielded two teams at under-12 level against St Loman's. We won a match each and we finished ahead on the aggregate scores but on the evening football was the winner with Shamrocks'  Tommy Daly impressing as a goalkeeper in the modern fashion. We mustn't forget our Under-13 team who qualified for the final of their section of the Under-13 Leinster league with a great win against Garrycastle (3-10 to 1-9) on Friday night. There was no joy for Mullingar Shamrocks in the Under-14 Féile as we were beaten 1-10 to 1-5 by St Loman's in our first game and defeated Athlone in our second match. With only one team progressing the loss to St Loman's sealed our fate.

Fixtures

Under-16 League: Mullingar Shamrocks v Caulry in Caulry, Monday, 22 April 2019, 7.00pm

ACL Div. 3: Killucan v Mullingar Shamrocks in Killucan,  Friday, 26 April 2019, 7.30.

ACL Div.1: Tang v Mullingar Shamrocks in Springfield,  Saturday, 27 April 2019, 7.00.

ACL Div. 6A: Delvin v Mullingar Shamrocks in Delvin,  Sunday, 28 April 2019, 11.30 am and also

Saturday 27th April.

Under 8 and 10 Go Games Blitz – Round 2 in Streamstown.

Under 8 from 9.45am to 11.15am; Under 10 from 11.30am to 1.00 pm

Participating Clubs: St. Josephs (Hosts), Mullingar Shamrocks and Milltownpass.

Tweet

Most Read Stories