On Friday the 24th the Junior Camogie team played in their Dublin League Semi-Final against Our Lady’s College, Templeogue. The match kicked off at 10am in Naas GAA club. With Roisin O’Hara as the captain of our team for the day, it began with a great start. St. Mary’s easily getting possession of the ball and keeping it down their side of the pitch. The other team was strong with their tackles but our girls fought back, with some extremely good tackling from Hannah Cusack, Ruth Clancy and Katie Kellaghan during the first few minutes.
The first point of the match was then scored by Áine Conway, which she scored with ease. The terribly bad weather was no stop to the St. Mary’s girls who, soon after, got 3 goals in the first half. One scored by Caoimhe Maher and the other two by Eilis Kenny.
During the second half of the match the weather seemed to get worse, with it bucketing down and this made playing conditions very difficult. It was hard to pick up the sliotar but our team battled through it and managed to get two more very impressive points, one from Áine Conway and the other from Emma Kielty. St. Mary’s girls had most of the possession of the ball throughout the match except for the last few minutes when Templeogue managed to get the ball to score a goal and a point.
This was a very hard but impressive match with all of the team playing well. St. Mary’s girls won 3-3 to 1-1. This was a great win, especially considering the weather conditions of the day. Player of the match has to go to Hannah Cusack who worked tirelessly throughout the game and other girls who played very well were Ruth Clancy and Eilis Kenny. The girls will now play St Michael’s, Finglas ,in the Dublin League final. (match report by Niamh Cowley & Jamie Lee Nolan