League and Championship Double For Old Boro

Munster Championship Camogie is set to come to the Old Boro this coming weekend after Dungarvan won this year’s Intermediate County Final at the WIT Arena at Carriganore on Saturday afternoon last beating Ferrybank in the decider.

The win secures a double for the Old Boro outfit as earlier this year without the services of a number of the players which featured in this latest win beat Butlerstown to take a league title at the Ballinameela Club Grounds.

Dungarvan had Kaiesha Tobin as their top scorer on the day landing five points’s four of which came from placed balls. While Sarah Lacey and Alix Fitzgerald were the side’s goal scorers on the day, but the accolade of the top scorer on the day went to Ferrybank’s Niamh Ahearne with the senior inter county panel member landing all 1-5 of her side’s scores.

Camogie is enjoying a revival in the Old Boro. They played in the adult grades for the first time in 2016 assisting the nearby Brickey Rangers Club having had competed in the different underage competitions on their own for some years and in doing so helped produce some players deemed good enough to represent the county at different age levels, and this win no doubt will do the game of Camogie in the Dungarvan area the world of good.

 For Ferrybank defeat to the Old Boro means that they have lost the last two finals at this level, but some great work is being done in the promotion of the game in the Ferrybank area and they have some quality players within their ranks and they will come back a stronger side and will be hoping that the old adage of ‘third time lucky’ will prove to be true in 2019.

Dungarvan played with the wind at their backs in the opening thirty minutes of this game and they made full use of it turning around with a 1-6 to 0-1 advantage at the break.

The winners had a tonic start to this game as Clodagh Tutty pointed inside the opening thirty seconds of the game, and they followed it up with another point this time from a Kaiesha Tobin free.

Ferrybank’s only score of the opening half came on five minutes when Niamh Ahearne put over a free, but Dungarvan by the end of the first quarter had extended their lead as Kaiesha Tobin landed two more points.

Twenty minutes into the game the first goal arrived. Orla Hickey another member of the Dungarvan Club that is part of the Waterford Senior Inter County set up dropped a free in around the Ferrybank goal and Alix Fitzgerald was on hand to poke the ball home to put her side 1-4 to 0-1 in front.

Further points from Kaiesha Tobin and Clodagh Tutty helped extend their sides lead before the Old Boro lost Orla Hickey with an injury in stoppage time at the end of the opening thirty minutes.

 Dungarvan began the second half with a point from Angela Tobin and while Ferrybank’s Niamh Ahearne with the wind at her back kept the scoreboard ticking over, all her hard work was to no avail as former Inter county player Dawn Power, Kaiesha Tobin and Sarah Lacey all helped Dungarvan to a ten point lead with a flurry of scores midway through the second half.

Dawn Power got her second score of the game when she was on hand to collect a Kaiesha Tobin free that fell just short of the target and on the hour mark if there was to be any disputing the outcome of this game, Dungarvan netted a second goal when Caoimhe Dwyer delivered a perfect ball to Sarah Lacey and the youngster whose grandfather won an All-Ireland medal with Waterford fired past Amy Boden.

Ferrybank did manage a goal with their next attack, Niamh Ahearne finishing to the Old Boro net, but it was to be a mere consolation score.

 Like with so many other clubs in the county, great progress is being made in the promotion of the game of Camogie within the Dungarvan Club thanks in no small part to a small but dedicated group of enthusiast, and they will be delighted to see all their hard work paid off with this win. For them a League and Championship double in the one calendar year makes 2018 a great year for the club and gives them plenty of hope going forward not just to 2019 but for the years that follow. 

Dungarvan: Catherine Murray; Kayleigh Veale, Taylor Murray, Ann Marie Tutty; Aisling Baumann, Orla Hickey, Niamh Curran; Sarah Lacey, Kaiesha Tobin; Clodagh Tutty, Caoimhe Dwyer, Angela Tobin; Alix Fitzgerald, Dawn Power, Caoimhe Denmead.

Subs: Hollie Keohan for Caoimhe Denmead, Mary Kate Prendergast for Orla Hickey, Amy O’Riordan for Angela Tobin, Shauna Harty for Alix Fitzgerald.

Scorers: Kaiesha Tobin 0-5 (4fs), Sarah Lacey 1-1, Alix Fitzgerald 1-0, Clodagh Tutty, Dawn Power 0-2 each, Angela Tobin 0-1.

Ferrybank: Amy Boden; Bronagh Power, Aisling Heffernan, Aisling Oates; Deirdre Heffernan, Iona Heffernan, Aine Prendergast; Orla O'Neill, Lydia Grant; Grainne Heffernan, Niamh Ahearne, Eimear Larkin; Roisin Oates, Siobhan Heffernan, Zoe Power.

Subs: Amber Cuddihy for Eimear Larkin, Helen McEvoy for Zoe Power, Clodagh Whelan for Siobhan Heffernan, Jane Myers for Bronagh Power, Laura Maley for Oates, Julie Sinnott for Deirdre Heffernan.

Scorers: Niamh Ahearne 1-5 (2fs).

Referee: Anthony Fitzgerald