Congratulations to our Ladies on winning the Intermediate Championship last Saturday, when with their blend of youth and experience, they defeated a game Drumcliffe/Rosses Point side in an entertaining final in Markievicz Park.   The final was played in constant rainfall, yet the teams served up some fantastic football with high scoring throughout.   Our girls showed tremendous application and commitment from every position on the pitch, and were ably led by their Captain, Karen Maloney who together with a fluid forward line scored some vitally important goals at critical times to keep us ahead of our opponents. 

Every match has key moments and in the dying seconds of the first half, Drumcliffe/Rosses Point broke forward and scored a late goal, only to be immediately countered before the half time whistle by a goal from our girls.   Then early in the second half Drumcliffe Rosses Point threw everything at us and eventually breached our defence, only for Goalkeeper Karen Lynch to pull off a quality save and become an immediate hero.   From this point Marys controlled proceedings and added to their lead to complete the final scoreboard of 8-08 to 2-11.  

The final whistle sparked wild celebrations and a huge burden of losing the previous 2 finals was lifted from St Marys.   Karen Maloney in her acceptance speech referred to how these disappointments built determination within the squad that this would be their year.   Well done to everyone and the squad on the day comprised Karen Lynch, Sarah Keaney, Leah Rooney, Laura Maloney, Aoife Connolly, Sadbh Brennan (named player of the match), Aoife Gilroy, Aileen Ruane, Keighleigh Cawley, Amy Gerrity, Karen Maloney (Captain), Michaela Gaffney, Emma Hansberry, Sarah McMoreland, Emma Gallagher, Sarah Woodmartin, Emma O’Connell, Ali Dykes, Orla Gavin, Hannah Monaghan, Hayley Kilgallon, Ruth Monaghan, Lisa Martyn, Sarah Rooney, Yasmin Connolly, Lana Nevin, Sinead Ledwith, Andrea Flynn, Karen Morgan, Erin Breheny, Cecile Mourin and Tammy McGwynne.  Congratulations also to the management team of Sahne Breheny, Sinead Corcoran and Mark Breheny.

Elsewhere, the Junior mens team had an impressive win over St Johns in the Junior Championship relegation semi-final when they eased to a 1-14 to 0-07 victory.   Well done to the guys.   This coming week our U16 boys are involved in a Championship play-off against Drumcliffe Rosses Point has been deferred to this Monday.   This match takes place in the Centre of Excellence in Scarden.  The team has shown great endeavour particularly in recent matches and has plenty to build upon.   The latest U18 B1 Championship match takes place against Geevagh on Thursday in St Michaels pitch.  Then all eyes will be on the Senior Championship next weekend when we travel to Tourlestrane to take on Coolaney Mullinabreena in the quarter final.  

Thanks to everyone who took part in our All Ireland ticket draw, and the match was a fantastic one to be at, even if the result was not the one most people would have preferred.