Senior Ladies - Memorial League, Round 3 Kilmeena vs Aghamore B

Kilmeena hosted Aghamore B on Saturday, 26th April. By the 6.30pm throw-in time, the brighter and drier weather conditions of earlier in the day had been replaced with a fresh breeze and rain. This made for greasy underfoot conditions and difficult ball handling.

The early stages saw Kilmeena come under pressure from Aghamore attacks and but for some wayward finishing by the visitors, Kilmeena would have found themselves in arrears on the scoreboard.

The Kilmeena ladies settled themselves and at 8 minutes in, they landed their first score of the game from open play. In similar fashion to the previous (Round 2) game, once on the scoreboard, the ladies in black & white generally dominated for long periods of the remainder of the first half. This dominance was achieved in no small part by the pressure put on the visitors’ restarts, which yielded significant primary possession and provided the launch-pad for many of the scores created and converted by Kilmeena in the first half.

Half time score: Kilmeena 1 – 07, Aghamore 0 - 2

The second half followed along the same lines as the first. Kilmeena continued to dominate the middle third, so much sothat the visitors failed to launch a single attack on the Kilmeena posts.

The game as a contest petered out in the final quarter and in truth, Kilmeena won’t have learned a whole lot from thissecond half of football. That said, one can only play what’s in front of them and a second win on the trot is a welcome start to the season for the Kilmeena ladies.

As was the case in the first outing two weeks ago, some good individual displays combined with good support play and asustained work rate throughout the pitch was the difference in the margin of victory for Kilmeena, leaving plenty of areas to work on in training in the coming weeks and months.

Kilmeena 2 - 12, Aghamore B, 0 - 2

Team; Ellie Mae Keane, Mags Ryder, Laura O'Grady, Katie Moran, Sheila Bohan, Aoife Gannon, Sinead Hughes, Siofra Hughes, Eabha Carney, Laura Kelly, Aine Gallagher, Niamh O’Connor, Amy Carney, Lisa Hastings, Rachel Gibbons.

Subs; Eva Mulchrone for Mags Ryder, Emma Jane Gill for Rachel Gibbons, Rachel Keane for Aine Gallagher.

Scorers; E Carney 1 - 5 (3f), N O’Connor 0 - 1, L Hastings 0 - 4, A Gannon 1 – 0 (P), A Carney 0 – 1, R Keane 0 -1.