Junior Medallion Shield final
Dominican College Fortwilliam 3-10 St Aidan’s Cootehill 2-5
CAPTAIN Rosa O’Connor was the star player as Dominican College Fortwilliam won their first ever provincial schools’ camogie title on Thursday afternoon in St Colman’s College Newry.
The St Enda’s midfielder dominated the middle third and picked off eight points in a competent performance alongside eight of her club mates. Others to shine for Dominican College, who only re-entered camogie competitions in the last few years, were Hannah McMillan and Orla Graham in defence, Aoife Downey alongside O’Connor at midfield while Anna O’Kane and Sofia Privilege were a handful up front.
Aoibhin Callaghan was the key player in the Cootehill team, bagging all their total, while there was good stick work from Ella Rose Boyle and Grace Geoghegan and Gráinne Hughes had an inspired hour in goals.
Rosa O’Connor opened the scoring with a point in the first minute and was involved in the lead up to Sofia Privilege’s goal a couple of minutes later.
Anna O’Kane added a second goal before Aoibhin Callaghan got St Aidan’s Cootehill off the mark with a 45 that went all the way to the net. However O’Connor and her midfield partner Aoife Downey hit back with the next three points before Sofia Privilege forced home her second goal from a goal-mouth scramble.
Despite two late points from Callaghan, Dominican led by 3-6 to 1-2 at the break.
Although Callaghan pointed a free for St Aidan’s in the first minute of the second half, Dominican kept adding points at regular intervals to the score-board. They hit five before the 50th minute and four of those came from Rosa O’Connor.
Although they were well ahead at this stage, there was a little sting in the tail with Aoibhin Callaghan imposing herself on the final stages with a goal and two points. However they were too late to impact the outcome.
Dominican:S Reilly, A Scullion, T Kalu, ER Hughes, K Sheehy, H McMillen, O Graham, R O’Connor 0-8 (4 fs), A Downey 0-1, A O’Kane 1-0, A Reilly, O Lynch, A Conwell 0-1, S Privilege 2-0, M McGarrigle.
Subs: É Vallely for M McGarrigle (45), R McQuillan for A Sullivan (56)
St Aidan’s: G Hughes, C McBreen, L Fitzpatrick, M McDermott, S Dempsey, ER Boyle, K McMullen, G Geoghegan, N Fitzpatrick, E Lynch, A Callaghan 2-5 (1-4 fs), L Morris, A Smith, E Farrelly, A Byrne.
Sub: R Carragher for E Farrelly (54).
Referee; John Devlin (Tyrone)