LGFA Ulster IFC
St. Gall’s 0-4 Mullahoran 6-10
St. Gall’s had no answer to an excellent Mullahoran from Cavan in this LGFA Ulster quarter-final at Hannastown on Sunday with the Cavan champions at a different level to their Antrim counterparts.
Led by the superb Aisling Sheridan, Mullahoran made the running right from the start and had this one put to bed by the halfway stage where they led 5-6 to 0-3.
Their opening goal came from a somewhat soft penalty after 7 minutes with Sheridan despatching it to the net with Kate Smith adding a second at the end of the opening quarter to move the visitors 2-5 to 0-1 ahead.
The St. Gall’s point came from an Alexandra Burns free in the 13th minute and Burns accuracy from the placed ball was one of the highlights of her side’s performance as they were soon forced again onto the back foot.
It was another Sheridan this time, Geraldine who came forward to register Mullahoran’s third goal at the end of a superb move in the 19th minute and there was a bit of dispute about goal number 4 with the referee deciding it had crossed the line in a goalmouth scramble despite protests from the St. Gall’s girls.
There was no such doubt about the visitors 5th as the superb Aisling Sheridan completing her hat-trick on 30 minutes to move her side 5-6 to 0-3 ahead with all three first half points coming from Alexandra Burns frees.
To their credit St. Gall’s tightened up in defence in the second half but continued to find it difficult to penetrate a strong Mullahoran defence in which Geraldine Sheridan was outstanding.
The visitors still managed to add 1-4 into the Hannastown breeze with Aisling Sheridan hitting 0-3 to bring her total for the evening to 2-8 with their goal coming from Kate Smith in the 18th minute and substitute Etain Higgins concluding the scoring.
A tough lesson for the Antrim champions who battled gamely against the odds but on the day they faced a side who were at a different level and would not have been out of place playing in the senior championship.
It’s been a great year for the Milltown girls and with plenty of youth in their side they will take the lessons from this defeat and move on to better things in the season ahead.
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