U16 B Girls Hockey There Were Few Enough Matches This Year for the ‘B’ Team, Ashton Was Our Next Opposition, Again in League
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the supporters (and coach!) with an outstanding display, However, the season wasn’t at its conclusion yet. For outclassing the opposition 4-0. Leading from the front, we had a cup semi final to look forward to. We had been captain Maeve Kingston scored a brace, with one a piece drawn away to Ursulines, Thurles, a daunting prospect. from Charlotte Hall and Charley Moore. This was to prove The day started badly with the news that captain Maeve the catalyst for a good cup run this year. Kingston was too ill to play, so Charlotte captained the team on the day in her absence. That meant a reshuffle to Next up was a tricky test on a grit pitch away in the sunny the team, which didn’t help our cause. It was a searingly south east and Dungarvan in the league. The surface was hot day in mid March, and we hit the ground running bobbly, uneven and littered with puddles, but this didn’t taking the lead early doors through a beautiful counter dampen the girls spirits as they created a plethora of attack finished expertly by Charlotte Hall. Belief began chances against fairly weak opposition. A 2-0 score line to grow. However, between the heat and some dodgy hardly reflects how dominant they were. Daisy Cardoso- umpiring calls by the home umpire, Ursulines equalised Murphy and Sarah O’Donnell finding the back of the net and then took the lead at the end of the first half, with on the day. two quick fire goals. This took the wind out of our sails a Our first fixture of the new year saw us pitted against our bit and significantly changed the coaches half time team previous league opponents Fermoy, this time at home and talk! this time in the cup. In a very one sided affair, the girls ran But as was indicative of this team this year, they never out 10-0 winners on a day where everything went right for gave up and fought back bravely. We equalised midway us and everything went wrong for our opposition. There through the second half, with an expertly taken goal by were two hat tricks scored on the day, by Charlotte Hall Charlotte Hall, who was having an outstanding game and Sarah O’Donnell, both of whom were beginning to and really leading from the front in Maeve’s absence. rack up the goals, 2 from Daisy Cardoso-Murphy, herself The heat really began to zap the energy levels of both finding the back of the net frequently also, and one a teams in this pulsating encounter of end to end hockey, piece from Maeve Kingston and Ella Roch-Perks. An with both teams emptying the subs bench regularly. outstanding display, is all that can be said as the result In the closing stages, disaster struck. A tiring defence speaks for itself! caused a momentary lapse and Ursulines scored a The next round of the cup saw us make the trip to third: heartbreak. With mere minutes left, the girls threw Cork City for a quarter final with Mount Mercy in early everything but the kitchen sink at them, but alas could not March. Another 5 star performance ensued from all, but find a way through and it ended 3-2. But what a game of especially Daisy Cardoso-Murphy who literally gave a hockey! The girls can feel very proud of being involved in 5 star performance with her 5 goals on the day in a 5-1 such a spectacle. mauling! Having been 1-0 down for almost the entire first So it was a bad way to end the season, but at least there half, this was a most pleasing turn around. was some joy in winning the league. It was an excellent Our final league match of the season was away on the season and the girls performed admirably throughout! island of Cobh on a desperately wet day! Puddles were U16 squad 2014-15: Maeve Kingston (c), Charlotte Hall forming all over the pitch, it was wetter than an otter’s (vc), Niamh Power, Mary Smiddy, Victoria Hosford, Katie pocket! Nonetheless, the girls showered us with goals Mariga, Charley Moore, Patricia Calzado, Daisy Cardoso- again, romping to a 4-0 drubbing of the opposition, with Murphy, Rebekah Opperman, Sarah O’Donnell, Bryna goal machine Daisy Cardoso-Murphy at it again with a hat Heffernan, Eimear Marley, Lara Summers, Ella Roch- trick (that’s 11 goals in 4 consecutive games!) and Sarah Perks, Cara Fletcher, Alice Tierney, Gabrielle Humphreys, O’Donnell adding another one to her tally for the season. Diane Pope, Alice O’Donnell, Benedicta Alapini, Rachel This win secured the league for us and was thoroughly Martin, Keziah Ottman. deserved from a team who had performed so consistently well in every match! - A.L. U16 B GIRLS HOCKEY There were few enough matches this year for the ‘B’ team, Ashton was our next opposition, again in league. Once between matches being cancelled due to opposition again, on the day, we were a number of players down and school commitments and a flooded pitch one day. We ended up with the bare 11, including two Spanish players, ended the season with 3 losses and 2 wins, but took a Itzi and Ana who played their first match. Goalkeeper lot of positives away despite the challenging season. The Sarah Murphy made a few crucial saves, while Celia, first match was a friendly against Kilkenny College which another Spanish player who had only recently started resulted in a 2-0 victory, Lara Summers and Hannah Duffy playing, put in a massive performance. This was another scoring the goals. positive performance under difficult conditions, but it proved too much for us not having any subs to bring in and The next match saw us start our league campaign against we ended up losing 2-0. Regina Mundi were up next, in Christ the King, which was always going to be a challenge the league. This was a very tight encounter, probably our considering we were without five of our starting team on most competitive match of the season, but unfortunately the day. Despite having to make so many changes, we we finished up on the wrong end of a 1-0 scoreline. played some excellent hockey throughout, but ultimately it proved too much a challenge and we lost 3-0. 76 U16B Girls Hockey Back Row L-R: Ms. Clifford, E. Roch-Perks, G. Humphreys, S. Murphy, B. Alapini, K. Mariga, A. O’Donnell, M. Tanner, N. Power, D. Pope, Dr. Gash. Front Row L-R: H. Duffy, S. Doherty, A. Tierney, L. Summers, K. Duffy, C. Acedo, R. Martin. Our final match of the season was against Ursulines, excellent hockey. I wish them all the best and hope they Blackrock. We took all those positives from the previous continue to enjoy their hockey! difficult matches, played some brilliant hockey and Squad: N. Power, R. Moloney, G. Humphreys, K. Manning, finished the season on a deserved high. Alice Tierney P. Calzado, L. Summers, R. Martin, B. Heffernan, A. Tierney, scored twice, with Niamh Power and Celia Perez both D. Pope, E. Roch-Perks, H. Duffy, K. Duffy, V. Hosford, S. scoring their first goals resulting in a 4-1 victory, exactly Murphy, A. O’Donnell, N. Deeny, B. Alapini, C. C. Acedo, what the team deserved after their efforts throughout the M. Tanner, K. Hartnett-Cronin, Ana Ramirez, I. Jiminez, K. season. They were a great group to work with, we had Mariga, S. Doherty, E. Celis. plenty of giggles along the way, while also playing some - L.C. 2nd Year Girls Hockey Back Row L-R: Ms. Dool, H. Beckingham, L. Casey, C. Keane, C. Graham, O. Akihomen, E. O’Galligan, A. Kiy, K. O’Riordan, Dr. Gash. Front Row L-R: J. McCarthy, S. Bailey, D. McCaughley, C. Parsons, E. O’Hara, S-J. Lynch, R. Fleming. 77 2ND YEAR GIRLS HOCKEY The 2nd year girls had a very successful season with nine Aisling Kiy, Rachel Fleming, Clara Keane, Kate O’Riordan, wins, two draws and two losses. The squad was made Ceire Graham and Shirley Bailey, with Laurileigh Baker as up of 22 players, including 3 beginners Violetta Sanchez, goalkeeper. They worked strongly together throughout all Deborah Sode and Hannah Beckingham, who showed matches to hold off the opposition. great progress through the year. The team was captained The girls did incredibly well in the cup. Our first round by Elena O’Galligan and Shirley Bailey who were very was against St. Angela’s where goals from Onome and capable and encouraging in their role. Caoimhe O’Sullivan lead us to a 2-0 victory. We then Our season started with three friendlies, a 1-0 win against played Fermoy where a hat trick from Emily O’Hara and Kilkenny College, with a goal from Shirley Bailey, a 3-0 win a goal from Shirley meant a comfortable win to get to the against Rockwell, with goals from Caoimhe O’Sullivan, quarter finals. Our quarter final was against Mt. Mercy Onome Akilhomen and Laura Casey, and a nil all draw and was a challenging match. With 10 minutes to go against Mount Mercy. With no goals conceded in these Elena made a break and got past multiple members of the matches, our confidence and team spirit was high going opposition to end with a one on one against the keeper, into league matches. where coming in from the right hand side she scored a beautiful goal.