Goal hungry Slieverue proved too strong for brave Black & Whites to claim Junior B All County league title.

Junior B ACL Final

Slieverue 6-11                        Blacks & Whites 0-06           

 Goal hungry Slieverue are All County League B champions after proving too strong for Blacks and Whites on a 6-11 to 0-06 point score line in Tullogher on Sunday.

It was Blacks and Whites who started the game the brighter and opened the scoring in the first minute. Slieverue responded with 1-02 on the spin. Caroline Kennedy started the run by getting in for the games opening goal in the third minute. Allanah Dolan followed this up with a point thirty seconds later before Caroline Kennedy tapped over a point in the fifth minute to make it 1-02 to a 0-01. Aoife Moore responded for Blacks and Whites with a point in the sixth minute. Slieverue responded with 1-01 on the spin. Allanah Dolan started the run by getting for her sides second goal. Shannon Doyle then tapped over a free in the tenth minute to put her side 2-03 to 0-03 clear. Grace McDonald responded for Blacks & Whites with a well taken point from play in the in the fourteenth minute. Shannon Doyle responded with a brace of points, the first from a free in the sixteenth minute and followed this up with a forty five in the twenty fourth minute to go 2-05 to 0-04 points clear. Aoife Carroll responded for Blacks and Whites with a point to reduce the deficit to six points at half time 2-05 to 0-05.

Black & Whites began the new half well and got the opening score through a Denise Byrne point thirty second after the resumption in what proved to be there last score in the contest as Slieverue completely took over getting 4-06 without reply.  Caroline Kennedy started the run with a point in the thirty second minute. Shannon Doyle followed this up with a point in the thirty fifth minute before Allanah Dolan got in for her sides third goal a minute later after a brilliant darting run to dispatch the sliotar home. She followed this up with a point in the thirty ninth minute to make it 3-08 to 0-06. Caroline Kennedy continued the good Slieverue run by getting 2-01 on the spin. She started the run by getting in for her sides fourth goal in the forty third minute, she followed this up with a well taken point in the forty fifth minute before she got in for her sides fifth goal in the forty ninth minute to make it 5-09 to 0-06 points. Mairead Kennedy then got in for Slieverue’s sixth goal in the fifty first minute after a good passage of play. Slieverue closed out the contest with a further two points through Hannah Irish in the fifty sixth minute and an Allanah Dolan point in the fifty seventh minute to see her sides round off a superb display to claim the Junior B All County league title for 2016 on a 6-11 to 0-06 points score line.

Slieverue – Amy Alcock, Aisling Flynn, Ciara Atkins,     Heather Doyle, Laura Mulcair,     Caroline Kennedy, Mairead Kennedy, Orla Phelan, Hannah Irish, Shannon Doyle, Alannah Dolan, Aisling Atkins, Lisa Phelan, Roisin Fleming, Ciara Morrissey.

Blacks/Whites – Nicola Doyle, Laura Moore, Bríd Kelly, Claire Kirwan, Aisling Cullen, Niamh Nolan, Aine Ryan, Bríd Doran, Hannah Moran, Aoife Moore, Aoife Carroll, Aine Doran, Denise Byrne, Aoife Drennan, Grace McDonald.

Subs- Emma Ryan, Tara Treacy, Sinead Maher, Anita Brennan, Megan O ‘Grady, Enya Foley, Mary Lennon.