Comfortable for O'Mahonys as they win well

Colin O'Brien

Navan O’Mahony’s made it two wins and a draw in the Meath Camogie Championship at Paddy O'Brien Park on Tuesday evening with a comfortable 1-14 to 0-3 win over Kilmessan’s second string outfit. In spite of a slow start, the Brews Hill outfit were able to drive on in the second half.

The scoring opened within a couple of minutes of the throw-in with a point from Ailbhe Leahy, followed shortly afterwards by a point by Jorja Keogh. The visitors didn’t score until the tenth minute, but took the lead in the seventeenth minute with three scores in a row.

Navan O’Mahony’s had a lot of possession in this time but a number of balls into the danger zone were cleared to safety as well as a number of wides.

With ten minutes to go, corner forward Lauren Woods equalised and a Cara Ratty point gave Navan O’Mahonys the lead once again after twenty-three minutes. Looking like there’d be the bare minimum between the sides, an injury time point from Keogh left two points between the sides at the interval, Navan O’Mahonys 0-5 Kilmessan 0-3.

Navan O’Mahonys got out of the blocks a lot quicker in the second half and built on the small lead that they had built in the first half. Keogh opened the scoring with a point from a free. Within two minutes of the resumption, Woods was through on goal and rattled the net, setting the spark that got Navan O’Mahonys going.

Three points from Keogh in a five minute period put distance between the sides and left Navan O’Mahonys firmly in control of the game. A point from Leahy from play in the tenth minute put an end to the high-scoring period and ten minutes passed without score.

Woods opened up the scoring again in the twenty-second minute, followed by an impressive score from Annie Hogan. Substitute Grace Cahill also pointed and an injury time point from Woods saw out the scoring.

As well as adding 1-09 in the second half, Navan O’Mahonys managed to keep the visitors scoreless in the second half and so emerged as comfortable winners against Kilmessan’s second side.

Navan O’Mahonys Mags Tompkins, Róisín Tobin, Megan Kinsella, Aoibhín McKenny, Emma Byrne, Alannah Brady, Rebecca Coen, Isabel O’Connor, Tara Fay, Jorja Keogh (0-6), Izzy Kinsella, Ailbhe Leahy (0-2), Lauren Woods (1-3), Cara Ratty (0-1), Annie Hogan (0-1). Subs - Saoirse O’Regan for Byrne, Aoibhín Kielty for Ratty, Doireann Mellett for Coen, Moya Tansey for McKenny, Grace Cahill (0-1) for Leahy