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Ladies bow out of Ulster Minor Championship - 28/07/03
Down v Cavan, 24th July 2003 venue Breffi Park, Cavan
Ulster
Minor Championship Semi-Final Down 1-09 Cavan 6-10 Down
Minors were deservedly beaten by a much hungrier Cavan team at Breffi Park on
Thursday night. From the outset Down lacked the fight they had shown two weeks
earlier in their quarterfinal round. Although missing a number of key players
through injury and holidays there was still enough talent available to have given
Cavan a much closer game. On the night essential players just didn't perform to
the level that they were capable of.
Cavan started the brighter and went
into a five-point lead before Down registered their first score through Emma O'Reilly.
Cavan then stepped up a gear and continued to bombard their full forward with
quality ball, which eventually paid dividends when they scored the first of their
three goals for the half. Down failed to get a foothold in midfield, which left
their defence overrun for most of the half. To their credit Louise Clarke and
Catherine MacFerran did try hard and were the pick of the defenders during the
first half, which saw Cavan reach the interval 3-9 to 0-1 ahead.
On resumption
of the break a rejuvenated Down squad started with a more determined attitude.
Within ten minutes they had registered 1-3 without reply, through Kyla Trainor
and Emma O'Reilly. Jenna Connell was also unlucky at this stage when she was hauled
to the ground after going straight through on goal. However all penalty pleas
were waived aside by the referee while Connell was taken off with a wrist injury.
Cavan sensing the danger hit back again with a point, then a goal of their own.
With the imposing Colleen Flanagan and again Catherine MacFerran getting through
an abundance of work in the defence Cavan still kept daylight between the teams
by scoring two further goals.
Emma O'Reilly and Shona Mulholland gave
battling performances in the Down attack but it was the inspirational Karen Gribben
who really caught the eye with her ball winning skills and strong running. Cavan
ran out eventual winners 6-10 to 1-9.
The management would like to thank
all players for their commitment and efforts throughout the year.
TEAM
and SCORERS:
R McCallum, C MacFerran, L Clarke, J Fitzsimmons, J Flanagan,
E Downey, O McFerran, K Trainor (1-2), G Gibney, E O'Reilly (0-4), L Cunningham
(0-1), S Mulholland, J Branagan, J Connell (0-1), A Murdock.
Subs used: K
Gribben (0-1), O McKibben, F Quinn, J Fegan and M McPolin.
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