Westmeath Ladies Football Championship, Quarter-Final: Mullingar Shamrocks 0-5 The Downs 7-14.

No joy for our very young minor football team in The Downs as they were comprehensively beaten by a really excellent home team who played fine football throughout. Their passing and movement and score-taking was superb and at half-time the women in the black and amber had established a 6-6 to 0-4 lead. The Shamrocks scores were secured by Holly McCormack (0-1) and Lauren (0-3). Phoebe Harte secured our lone second-half score. It was a disappointing end to what was a good year for our minor girls (the vast majority of the team also played in the under-16 championship) and their coach Emma Morris but to their credit they battled for the sixty minutes and this year’s campaign will benefit the girls in the long term.

Shamrocks: Chloe Flood; Róisín McKnight, Carla Gibney, Eadoin Byrne; Ellen Sleator (Nicola Groanewald), Michelle Morris, Ciara Bauer; Anna Jones, Catherine Tubridy; Sarah Geoghegan (Susanna Buckley) (Zara Giligan), Honor McNamara, Phoebe Harte (Katie Rock); Shauna Meares (Sarah Geoghegan), Lauren McCormack (0-3), Hilary McCormack (0-1) [Shauna McNicholas].