One of the great success stories of Antrim GAA, this year
and over the last number of years has been the consistent performances of the
U14 girl’s football side and having beaten all before them in Ulster this year
they travel to Portlaois this Saturday to take on Kerry in the All Ireland quarter-final.
The Saffron Gael sends the girls their best wishes and we
will hopefully be reporting on another success story for this very dedicated and
talented group of players and their management on our site this weekend.
The scoreline in this Division 2 Ladies Football clash, masks what was a much closer contest between 2 of the leading teams in the league.
The Glenravel girls started brightly and opened up a decent lead thanks to strong direct forward play particularly from Laoise McKenna, Kirsty Laverty & Torie Edgar. With a slight breeze at their backs, the Glengormley girls eventually got to the pace of the game and began giving the home defense much cause for concern. Indeed, if they had taken all the chances that presented in the later stages of the opening half, then Naomh Eanna definitely would have had the advantage at the break. As it was, Glenravel still had their noses in front at the short whistle, on a scoreline line of 3-4 to 2-4.
Birthday girl Kirsty Laverty celebrated her big day with a great performance against Naomh Eanna
The second half saw a more settled display from the home team. Molly Woulahan became a constant threat to the Naomh Eanna defense and although Con Magees pulled into a commanding lead, Naomh Eanna refused to throw in the towel and plugged away until referee, Barry Hotchkiss, blew the final.
This was a useful work out for both teams. Both well able to compete and test each other, while serving up 31 scores, between them, over the hour.
