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Junior Ladies Footballers Progress to Champo Semi-Final with Fine Performance - Mon, 2 Jul 2007

St. Brigids 3-16  Naomh Mearnog/St. Sylvesters 2-3

St. Brigids Junior Ladies Football progress to Championship Semi Final The St. Brigids Junior team played Naomh Mearnog/St. Sylvesters in achampionship playoff on Monday 25th in Portmarnock.  The prize at stake was a semi final place against St. Margarets on July 18th. In the first half, the St. Brigids girls played into a very strong windbut managed to come in at half time 5 points up.  The defensive work of Joanne Bruen and Miriam Lowry in particular was outstanding in limitingthe oppostion to 4 scores.  

In the second half the Brigids girls playedtheir best football of the season so far to pull away from a strong Mearnog/Syls team.  A highlight of the second half was the long range point taking from the half forward line of Michelle Dunne, Tara Carolanand Heather Nester. Heather repeatedly won both her own team and theoppositions kick outs to keep St. Brigids on top. 

Aine Burke wasdominating midfield at this point to make sure that there was no chancefor Naomh Mearnog/Sylvesters to come back into the game and they werelimited to one score in the second half.  Corner forwards Leanne Greene and Rebecca Dowling both scored goals in the game and were a constant threat to the opposition defence.

The winning scoreline was very impressive given the proven calibre ofthe opposition and the performance is a great boost to the St. Brigids girls in preparation for the semi final.   The girls followed this performance up with a cup victory on Wednesday night over Na Fianna on ascoreline of St. Brigids 6-10 Na Fianna 1-2.

Half Time: St. Brigids 2-5   Naomh Mearnog/St. Sylvesters 1-3

Scorers: Leanne Greene 1-4, Michelle Dunne 1-2, Rebecca Dowling 1-1, Tara Carolan 0-5, Heather Nester 0-4

St Brigids: Janette Rice, Ali Davis, Joanne Bruen, Miriam Lowry, Claire Lynch,Louise Prior, Maighread Gallagher, Enya Farrell, Aine Burke, MichelleDunne, Tara Carolan, Heather Nester, Leanne Greene, Fin Ni Dhomhnaill, Rebecca Dowling, Linda Deasy

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