Antrim Minor B Camogie final at Pairc MacUílin
St Paul’s 5-12 Lamh Dhearg 5-04
St Paul’s came from two points down at half time to beat Lamh Dhearg in the final of the Antrim Minor B Camogie Championship at Hightown. Trailing by 3-02 to 0-07 at the break the Shaw’s Road girls got on top with their wind at their backs in the second half to win in the end by eight points.
After Nicole Munce gave St Paul’s the lead in the third minute Lamh Dhearg came back strongly with goals from Rhea Hannah in the fourth minutes and Sophie Morris in the sixth and with Aoife Fitzsimons adding a point they opened a six point lead. Ellie Lynn of St Paul’s and Amelia Annette of Lamh Dhearg exchanged exchanged points to keep six between the teams but St Paul’s hit the next four without reply, three from Lynn and one from Maeve Devlin to cut the gap back to two. Amelia Annette came back with one for the Hannahstown girls in the 22nd minute but Lynn struck again just before half time to cut the gap back to just two at the interval.
Two goals by midfielder Maeve Devlin and one from Aoife O’Hare early in the second half put St Paul’s in control and with Lynn adding three more points they seemed to have it all wrapped up by the end of the third quarter.
However Lamh Dhearg fought their way back and two goals from Aoife Fitzsimons and Rhea Hannah brought them back into contention. However with Player of the Match Ellie Lynn controlling matters St Paul’s kicked on again with Lynn adding 2-02 the pushed on to victory
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