St Judes pip O'Tooles to take Championship title

  • Aug 27,2013

TESCO Home Grown Junior B final

St. Jude's V O'Tooles

by Sinead Farrelly

The first of the two finals was the Junior B between St. Jude's and O'Tooles with St. Jude's facing their third final in a row.

A tight opening minute led to St. Jude's getting the opening free which was taken by Niamh O'Connell but went wide.


A great block from St. Jude's Cliodhna Carmody kept O'Tooles from scoring and Sarah Curran had another great block to keep the ball away.


Aisling Egan finally made the breakthrough for St. Jude's by scoring the opening point of the game after nine minutes of play.


St. Jude's Laura Gibney and Leah Barry had two shots but both went wide as they tried to keep the pressure on.


O'Tooles Diana Farrell had a great shot with a free but it was saved by the St. Jude's goalkeeper Carmel Kearney. Shortly after, she was given another free and this time she capitalised and scored the opening point for her side 16 minutes in.


O'Tooles got their second point when a ball went in toward the goal and looked it to dip and drop short but Ericka Behan pushed it over the bar.

 
St. Jude's were given another free and after a scramble in front of the goal, Katie Mahon took a shot but went wide.


Fiona Dwyer from O'Tooles soon after took her first point for her side as they started to build
some momentum as just moments later they were back in front of the goal and had a shot but it was saved.


O'Tooles were awarded a 45 which made its way to Katie Fitzgibbon and she converted it into the opening goal of the game five minutes before half time.


With the clock ticking don St. Jude's had three near scores which all went wide taken by Curran, Mahon and Niamh O'Connell.

At half time the score stood at 1-03 to 0-01 in favour of O'Tooles.

A quick start to the second half led to St. Jude's taking possession and Leah Barry took the first shot but it went wide.


Just a few minutes in Tooles scored the opening point of the second half when Aoife Kelly scored for her side; this was very quickly followed up by Ash Kane scoring another.


St. Jude's were given a free taken  by Niamh O'Connell but it went wide, Curran soon after
had a great run towards the goal but her shot also went wide. However minutes later she took another shot and this time it worked out when she scored a point.


St. Jude's Curran tried for another score but a great block from O'Tooles Ciara Maloney kept it out.

St. Jude's were awarded a free and Niamh O'Connell scored her first point.
Straight after this, O'Tooles had another point scored for them by substitute Emma Maloney.


St. Jude's were given a free taken by O'Connell and a slight fumble in front of the goal led to a goal being scored by O'Connell bringing the gap in scores to just three points.


St. Jude's took hold of possession once more and O'Connell brought the ball to Pamela Kavanagh and she capitalised and scored St. Jude's second goal bringing the teams level.


Straight after they took the ball again and Laura Gibney scored a point to bring her side ahead.


With just a few minutes left before the final whistle St. Jude's Curran scored her 3rd point of the game. This was closely followed by O'Tooles' Diana Farrell scoring a point for them.

At full time the score was 2-05 to 1-07 with St Judes the victors. Player of the match went to a very deserving Pamela Kavanagh from St. Jude's.