Toomevara almost back to the top
Tipperary Intermediate Championship Final Preview
By Rose Mannion
THURLES SARSFIELDS v TOOMEVARA
Camogie Grounds, The Ragg
Sunday 13th October
Throw-in @ 12.00pm
Once the dominant force of camogie in the county, Toomevara are sixty minutes away from return to the senior grade when they take on Thurles Sarsfields in Sunday's County Intermediate Camogie Championship Final.
Senior champions as recently as 2004, they fell on some very lean times and fell all the way back to junior level in 2015 to rebuild from the great sides of Deirdre Hughes and Noelle Kennedy before starting to work their way back up.
It took them until last year to win the Junior ‘A’ title, making the step up to Intermediate level where they have been immediately competitive as was witnessed in the semi-final two weeks ago as they edged their way to victory over a strong Newport/Ballinahinch side.
Toomevara have many of those former senior players but have mixed youth with experience. This present crop have a fine player too in Shauna Quirke who donned the county intermediate jersey this season. Their younger players will be looking to the likes of Moira Ryan, Emma Louise Coffey, Sheila Ryan, Siobhan Kennedy. to lead the way in this clash which will be fast and furious given the nature of the semi-final, but one wonders are the North Tipp club ready to return to the senior ranks.
Thurles Sarsfields are the red hot favourites going into this final. They come packed with youth and are a star studded outfit.
The club has made leaps and bounds through the years and have worked their way up from the grassroots to contest this final, looking to made amends for twelve months ago when they were defeated by Cashel, after a replay.
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