U14 LGFA Championship final
St. Ergnat’s 7-16 St. Gall’s 4-3
There’s no show like a Jo Jo show. At a sun kissed Dunsilly on Thursday night the name on everyone’s lips was Jo Jo Darragh. The talented Moneyglass girl put on an exhibition of forward play that would grace any occasion never mind a championship final. The South West side got off to a blistering start hitting 3-8 to 0-2 in the first fifteen minutes up to the first water break.
If there were any notions, however, that the game was over, a resilient St. Galls put those to bed very quickly. With two long high testing balls launched into the square, came two goals within a minute.
The 1st goal scored by Holly Hilton and all of a sudden it was game on. St Galls pressed again and the second came from the talented Gemma Mullan who also kicked a well taken points in the first half.
Such was Moneyglass strength all over the pitch however that it wasn’t long before they wrestled back control. With Aedin Vallely, Ruby McErlain and JoJo Darragh in fine form the scores flowed.
The second and third quarters were definitely the most competitive with St. Galls hitting a brace of goals in each. 5-10 to 2-3 was the halftime score and at the second water break the gap had narrowed to 5-12 to 4-3 with StGalls girls Aoibhinn Fallon and Jessica Chapman tucking away a goal each and Olivia Whelan and Niamh Ni Muirigh adding points.
But as the game entered the twilight Moneyglass threw the shackles off to run out convincing winners on a score line of 7-16 to 4-3.
St Galls put up a great challenge to the champions and have numerous very talented players and it’s always a good contest when these teams meet.
A great win for the outstanding Moneyglass girls . There seems to be endless talented young players coming through the ranks in this club. Im sure the management team of Kevin Madden and Ruairi O’Boyle are delighted with the girls performance.
