Intermediate Camogie Championship
Cargin Camogie Club 2-13 Loughgiel Shamrocks 0-19
Injury time points from Anna McKillop and Megan McGarry earned Loughgiel a share of the spoils against Cargin in Thursday evening’s Intermediate Camogie Championship round robin game in Toome. A goal by Cargin’s Maria O’Neill in the 58th minute appeared to have earned her team the win, which have brought them level with the Shamrocks on top of Group 1, but the girls in red kept battling to the end and McGarry’s and McKillop struck late to keep their team at the top pf the group.
Loughgiel got away to a strong start and points from Mgean McGarry, Aoibhean Gillan, Anna McKillop and Carina Sullivan had them four ahead after nine minutes, but two pointed frees from Maria O’Neill cut the gap in half. Points from Sullivan and Anna Smyth restored the Shamrocks four point cushion but two more by O’Neill and one from Grainne McAtamney lets just a sing point between the sides.
It was out to two when Anna McKillop when Anna McKillop sent over a point from a free but Maria O’Neill came back with four in a row from the south west Antrim side. It looked like the hosts would go in at the break with a two point lead but two points from Shamrocks full forward Anna McKillop tied the scores at 0-9 apiece by half time.
A Grainne McAtamney goal in the first minute of the second half was followed by yet another Maria O’Neill point and suddenly the Toome girls were four to the good. They stayed ahead through a thrilling second half contest as both teams swopped points on three occasions.
When player of the match Maria O’Neill got Cargin’s second goal with just two minutes of normal time left to play it looked like she had done enough to get her team over the line, but the excellent Anna McKillop and Megan McGarry saved the day for the visitors.
