Ladies Gaelic Football Div.1 Senior League: Milltown 1-16 Mullingar Shamrocks 3-3

Our senior Ladies Gaelic Football team delivered another battling performance against Milltown in their Division 1 League match on Friday night. Milltown opened with a pair of points but in the tenth minute Niamh Kennedy was on hand to finish a Karen Hegarty free to the net to put Shamrocks ahead. Milltown added three points to the board before Casey McDermott pointed for Shamrocks after a great run by Anna Jones. Lauren McCormack pulled off a great save to deny Milltown a goal scoring opportunity. Karen Hegarty for once escaped the double marking shackles and pointed but at the interval Milltown held a 0-9 to 1-2 lead. On the restart Milltown added 1-2 to their total but Shamrocks responded well with Anna Jones powering through for a goal and Gemma Kerrigan adding a point to reduce the deficit (1-11 to 2-3). Milltown added two points before Anna Jones blasted a great goal to raise the hopes of the visitors (1-13 to 3-3). This proved to be Shamrocks final score and Milltown added three more points before referee Shane Maher blew the final whistle. Although beaten and Milltown were clearly the better team on the night, the Mullingar Shamrocks footballers had plenty of positives to take from the night on their journey back to Mullingar.

Mullingar Shamrocks: Lauren McCormack Melek Fagan, Chloe Swarbrigg, Shóna McNicholas (Gemma Kerrigan. 0-1): Áine Melody (Lorna Morris), Niamh Spellman, Cliodhna Spellman (Sofie Hegarty); Michelle Buckley and Anna Jones (2-0); Tara Fagan, Emma Morris, Niamh Kennedy (1-0); Casey McDermott (0-1) [Liveta Lazauskaite), Karen Hegarty (0-1), Carole Finch (Rachael Hannigan).