Drom quell Toome’s bright start
CAMOGIE: Tipperary Senior Championship Quarter Final
Drom quell Toome’s bright start
Drom & Inch 0-22
Toomevara 1-6
Report: Enda Treacy at The Ragg
Toomevara 1-6
Report: Enda Treacy at The Ragg
MATCH DIGEST
Player of the Match: Elaine Young (Toomevara)
SCORERS – Drom & Inch: Eimear McGrath 0-14 (13 frees); Miriam Campion, Joanne Ryan 0-3 each; Dee Dunne, Siobhan McGrath 0-1 each.
Toomevara: Jill Anne Quirke 0-4 frees; Laura O’Meara 1-0; Gemma McCarthy (free), Laoise Cummins 0-1 each.
An exceptionally resilient display from Toomevara wasn’t enough to halt the Drom & Inch advance as the reigning champions booked their place in the semi-finals of the County Senior Camogie Championship in what was a very physical and entertaining quarter final last Friday evening.
Player of the Match: Elaine Young (Toomevara)
SCORERS – Drom & Inch: Eimear McGrath 0-14 (13 frees); Miriam Campion, Joanne Ryan 0-3 each; Dee Dunne, Siobhan McGrath 0-1 each.
Toomevara: Jill Anne Quirke 0-4 frees; Laura O’Meara 1-0; Gemma McCarthy (free), Laoise Cummins 0-1 each.
An exceptionally resilient display from Toomevara wasn’t enough to halt the Drom & Inch advance as the reigning champions booked their place in the semi-finals of the County Senior Camogie Championship in what was a very physical and entertaining quarter final last Friday evening.
Toomevara came into this one with their backs firmly against the wall and were expected to only be another small obstacle for Drom to hurdle in the defense of their title, but the Toome ladies certainly died with their boots on as they certainly gave their opponents a good game.
Such was the Toomevara work rate and intensity in the first fifteen minutes where the teams were level at 0-3 apiece, everyone present could hear Drom manager Pat Ryan roasting his team during the water break for possibly underestimating the Toome challenge.
But despite this, Drom & Inch slowly but surely wore their opponents down with their superior arsenal in the forward division, as Eimear McGrath was ruthless from frees notching up fourteen points in the process, with Joanne Ryan and Miriam Campion causing huge trouble throughout.
Toomevara had some big performances across the field from Mags Quigley, Elaine Young and Gemma McCarthy to name but a few, and perhaps the score-line flatters Drom slightly, but this young Toome team will be happy with the performance, as it is something to build on for the future.
Indeed, the performance was built on excellent early physical hurling from the north side, as a long-range Gemma McCarthy free put her side into the lead inside the first sixty seconds of play and with both teams bouncing off each other in the early exchanges, the frees began to flow.
Eimear McGrath put her side into the lead in the following ten minutes, but their forwards were being well shackled and smothered out of the game by a ravenous Toome defense and midfield, as Jill Anne Quirke slotted two well-earned frees to put Toome ahead, before McGrath equalized just before the water break.
The hunger for work didn’t leave Toome and they had retaken the lead a minute after action resumed, again coming from a close range free after Shauna Quirke was fouled close to goal; her sister Jill Anne applying the scoring touch here.
With that work-rate and want to stifle the Drom challenge though, came indiscipline at times from Toome’ and they were starting to cough up a lot of needless scoreable frees to Eimear McGrath, who was looking flawless, as she slotted six more points before the break in a big purple patch for Drom; which also seen good scores from play from Miriam Campion and Dee Dunne who were beginning to get into the action as they took an 0-11 to 0-4 lead at half time.
Joanne Ryan started the second half emphatically for her side with an excellent solo effort from deep before lashing over the bar to extend the lead, but Toome responded well with another Jill Anne Quirke free just before Laoise Cummins got her sides first score from play with a lovely effort under pressure on the 21 to keep Toome’ in touch.
However, that’s as close as Toome’ would come in the scoring stakes to their opponents and with the free count racking up against them and the legs starting to get heavy, Drom took over with Eimear McGrath again five frees during the half, while Siobhan McGrath and Ryan supplied points from play as they ran the Toome defense ragged in the final ten minutes.
A fantastic goal two minutes from time from Toome’ substitute Laura O’Meara put a well-earned sheen on the score line for the greyhounds, as she latched on to a long Mags Quigley free, to gather and rifle a bullet to the roof of the net past Caoimhe Bourke; but the writing was well on the wall at that stage as Drom did the necessary to clinch a semi-final spot.
TEAMS - Drom & Inch: Caoimhe Bourke; Maria Connolly, Christina Brennan, Mairead Eviston; Eimear Cahill, Aoife McGrath, Maureen Ryan; Niamh Treacy, Mary Burke; Dee Dunne, Anne Eviston, Siobhan McGrath; Eimear McGrath, Joanne Ryan, Miriam Campion.
Sub: Niamh Long for Eviston (42).
Toomevara: Paula Ryan; Lauren Ryan, Joanne O’Farrell, Orla Hogan; Mary Grace, Margaret Quigley, Niamh McCormack; Elaine Young, Gemma McCarthy; Caoimhe Cantwell, Mary O’Brien, Mary Flaherty; Laoise Cummins, Jill Anne Quirke, Shauna Quirke.
Subs: Laura O’Meara for O’Brien (44); Ciara Kenneally for Flaherty (58).
Referee: Sean Everard (Moyne-Templetuohy).
Sub: Niamh Long for Eviston (42).
Toomevara: Paula Ryan; Lauren Ryan, Joanne O’Farrell, Orla Hogan; Mary Grace, Margaret Quigley, Niamh McCormack; Elaine Young, Gemma McCarthy; Caoimhe Cantwell, Mary O’Brien, Mary Flaherty; Laoise Cummins, Jill Anne Quirke, Shauna Quirke.
Subs: Laura O’Meara for O’Brien (44); Ciara Kenneally for Flaherty (58).
Referee: Sean Everard (Moyne-Templetuohy).