No joy for De La Salle in Munster Final

There was no joy for De La Salle on Saturday afternoon when they went under to a strong Scarriff/Ogonnelloe side in the Munster Junior Camogie Club final at Leahy Park in Cashel.

Full forward Rachel Minogue, centre forward Mairead Scanlon and wing forward Aoife Power prove to be a constant thorn in the side of the De La Salle defence in this game as between then they hit all but one point of their sides tally.

The County Clare side got off to a good start in this game with Minogue hitting a goal inside five minutes.

Beth Carton brought De La Salle back into the game with a couple of frees but an Aoife Power speculative shot from distance deceived Brianna O’Regan in the De La Salle goal and the defenders in front of her and fell to the net for a second goal for the Clare side on 15 minutes.

Overall the first half proved to be a tight affair. Mairead Scanlon and Aoife Power provided some valuable scores for the side that would eventually win, while for De La Salle, Beth Carton’s scores and a beautiful point from Ciara Twomey along with some hard work by Caoimhe Drohan were keeping the Déise champions in contention and they only trailed 2-5 to 0-10 at the break despite the conceding of two first quarter goals.

The Clare side started the second half scoring the first three scores of the half to extend their lead with Aoife Power and Mairead Scanlan sharing the scores.

Beth Carton replied with a free, but the experienced Clare side were causing problems for De La Salle with long balls into space, as Rachel Minogue added some good scores for the Clare side following some good work by Mairead Scanlan and Amy Barrett in the build-up.

While always behind, De La Salle never gave up and went in search of a goal but they found the Clare defence held strong, even if they did concede a number of frees from which Beth Carton made no mistake.

Late points from Beth Carton and Caoimhe Drohan (’45) brought De La Salle closer, but they could not find the goal they needed to rescue the game.

De La Salle: Brianna O’Regan; Katie Ryan, Taylor Healy, Rachel Butler; Emma Fitzgerald, Collette Hogan, Niamh Murphy; Courtney Healy, Caoimhe Drohan; Chloe Dempsey, Beth Carton, Ciara Twomey; Liz McEnaney, Aisling Madigan, Katie O’Keeffe. Subs: Hayley Cox for Liz McEnaney, Rachael Daniels for Katie O’Keeffe, Ciara Flynn for Katie Ryan.

Scorers: Beth Carton 0-11 (10f), Caoimhe Drohan 0-3 (1 ’45), Ciara Twomey 0-1.

Scariff/Ogonnelloe: Aisling Corbett; Shannon McNamara, Marian O’Brien, Leanne Horan; Amy Barrett, Alison Madden, Sarah Skelly; Roisin O’Brien, Holly McGee; Aoife Power, Mairead Scanlan, Rachel Moloney; Danielle Sheedy, Rachel Minogue, Sarah O’Donnell. Subs: Cathy Madden for Sarah Skelly, Aine O’Brien for Danielle Sheedy, Kealy Power for Sarah O’Donnell, Sarah Daly for Aoife Power, Clodagh Nash for Holly McGee,

Scorers: Aoife Power 1-6, Mairead Scanlon 0-8 (4f, 1 ’45), Rachel Minogue 1-4, Róisín O’Brien 0-1.

Referee: John Kirby (Cork).