Scoil Mhuire Coolcotts win out in the Battle of the Towns
Scoil Mhuire Coolcotts 1-7 St. Aidan’s Enniscorthy 1-3
It is not often that a team can register seventeen wides and still emerge victorious in a county final but that was exactly they way Scoil Mhuire of Coolcotts managed to do it when they clinched the Allianz Cumann na mBunscol Roinn B football title in St. Patricks Park last Wednesday.
Coolcotts were totally dominant in the opening quarter of the game with the impressive trio of Allanah Anglim, Chelsey Pitman and Sarah Siggins linking very well together and creating lots of chances. Despite all this good work however, Coolcotts sent the ball wide of the post ten times in this first ten minutes alone and only had two Chelsey Pitman points to show for all of their efforts.
It looked like St. Aidan’s were going to severely punish this wastefulness when they got up the pitch in the 20th minute and scored a point and a goal with their first two chances of the game. Anais Curran neatly clipping over a free and Faye Larking bundling in a goal from close range a minute later to set Coolcotts pulses racing. Coolcotts sprung back into life straight away and just before halftime they levelled the scores with another point for Chelsey Pitman and a Sarah Siggins effort.
Coolcotts then immediately took the lead in the second half when Allanah Anglim scored a well taken point and then moments later put over a free. In the seventh minute of the half, Rachel Dempsey scored a great goal to extend the Coolcotts lead to five points. St. Aidans responded with a Sinead Morrissey point and struggled in vain to get back into the game but they were repelled time and time again by a strong Coolcotts defence. Laura Smith almost got the important goal that St. Aidans needed but was unlucky to see her shot go just wide. Sarah Siggins pointed a free at the other end to restore the five point lead and left St. Aidan’s battling to the end only to be rewarded with a Leah Furlong point. Unfortunately it was not to be their day and when the final whistle went Coolcotts finished as the deserved winners.
Scoil Mhuire, Coolcotts: Katie Bergin, Ruth Hendrick, Chloe Adams, Abby Walsh, Jemma Dooley, Hollie Sinnott, Allanah Anglim, Chelsey Pitman, Sarah Siggins, Rachel Dempsey, Regina Barry, Lauren Gordon, Kyra Lacey, Alanna Fusciardi-Wallace, Izabela Zielinski, Megan Lane, Cathlin Murphy, Tamzin Howell, Siobhan Rossiter, Latisha Cullen
St. Aidan’s Enniscorthy: Eve Morrissey, Karla Browne, Leah Furlong, Bobbie Hendrick, Caoimhe Kehoe, Kacey Grant, Becky Walsh, Sinead Morrissey, Bonnie Kinnaird, Leanne Coffey, Lystus Ebosele, Anais Curran, Faye Larkin, Laura Smith, Lily Mahon, Saoirse Fitzgerald, Ciara Kelly, Alibhe Harrington, Paige Mitchell, Precious Obashan, Clodagh Ryan, Ciara Murphy, Kaci O’Connor, Eimear Larkin
~Seán Óg Whelan