St. Patricks GAA

ST PATRICK’S LADIES GAA CLUB

Under 10’s

The second round of the u10 girls blitz took place last Wednesday the 18th of July in Littleton. There were teams from Moycarkey and Mullinahone and we had 18 players and fielded two teams. Each team had three 20 minute games. Our red team was: Eimear Boland, Erin O’Brien, Katie McCormack, Siobhan O’Hanlon, Isabelle Hayden, Rachel Butler, Robyn Horan, Eabha Hogan and Heather Gahan. The blue team players were: Dearbhla Morrissey, Eabha Fitzgerald, Kelly Burgess, Inis Noonan, Sarah Cranitch, Sophia Winters, Emily Jane Reason, Aoibheann McGrath and Amy O’Connell.

Under 12’s
On Saturday 21st we travelled to Clonmel Og for the Munster Ladies 12s Fun blitz. Our girls performed admirably with some great team performances. Our group consisted of Moycarkey, Ardfinnan, Clonmel Commercials & Abbeyside (Waterford) this was a great opportunity for our girls to play in various roles and all got great game time.

Junior Team

The junior team played their first championship match away to Latten Cullen in Latten on Sunday past and came away victorious with a scoreline of St.Patrick’s 0-16 to Lattin-cullen 2-6.
Next game is against cahir B

On June 30th.St.Pats U12 continued their  winning streak with a comprehensive win over Boherlahan in the. ‘C’final. St.Pats started well with some fine individual displays of skill from Niamh Keane who opened the scoring with a well taken point.Niamh then added a great goal ten minutes into the game. Caoimhe Ryan in a fantastic display of determination broke through the Boherlahan defence and  buried the ball in the back of the net. in a very physical game Boherlahan  went in at half time with the slightest advantage. 2-3 to 2-1. The second half saw St.Pats come out with all guns blazing.With no quarter asked or given,and some great performances  in a mid-field  role by Ruth MacDonald and Dorothy Wall in a centre back role and an absolutely solid defence of Shannon , olivia and chloe and Sadhbh in goal who kept us in the game with two fine saves in the final minutes St.Pats ran out deserving winners on a score 3-6 to 2-4. This is the U12’s second county final win in a row. After a victory lap around the villages of Cloneen and Drangan we all went back to the club house for a well deserved celebration of Pizza , and chips kindly sponsored by the ladies club . There was also sandwiches , buns and cakes of many varietys . A very big thank you to all the mammys who brought food.and finally a huge thank you to Jerimiah kiely of Kielys garage who sponsored the minerals for the team.

On Wednesday June 6th our U-12s took to the field in Cloneen for our championship game v Clonmel Og.. It was a game were scores were exchanged in the opening Qtr.. Caoimhe Ryan & Niamh Keane were on the scoresheet early with Avril White adding a point before the break.. In the second half Clonmel Og were trying to break down the St Pats defence but with Shannon & Co. marshalling a strong defence and with Sadhbh keeping a clean sheet there was going to be no way through. This game marked the first championship scores for 2 of our younger players with a point by Eimear Boland & a well taken goal by Dearbhla Morrissey.. Final score St Pats 3-4— 0-6pts Clonmel Og..

On Sunday 10th June we travelled to Clerihan to take on the home side. St Pats settled in the better and with early goals from Caoimhe Ryan & Niamh it gave our girls the early advantage and leading by 3 goals at the break they built on that in the second half.. In defence we were solid Sadhbh keeping a clean sheet with support from Shannon, Chloe, Olivia, Ciara, Ruth & the outstanding Aine Ryan.. Up front Eimear Boland scored her first championship goal.. Final score St.Pats 5-4 Clerihan 0-4

Team- S Morrissey, O Noonan, S O’Connor, C Griffen, A Ryan, R MacDonald, C O’Halloran, C Ryan E Wilson, E Boland, L Murphy, A Horan, O o Hanlon, N Keane, A White, E Houlihan, Dearbhla Morrissey, Ciara Butler.

We will await draw next week to see who are our Qtr – Final opponents.