BUNCRANA 1-07 V 4-09 NAOMH CONAILL They say that goals win football matches and when the Mc Donnell sisters Alanah and Aoife added two to the Naomh Conaill total in the last minute of the first-half of this Ladies Intermediate final in O Donnell Park you certainly felt this game was over as a contest and the Glenties girls were destined to add the Intermediate Championship to the Junior A title they won last year. Those goals left the half-time score at 4-05 to 0-05 in Naomh Conaill’s favour and it was hard to see a way back for the Buncrana girls. Joanne Gallagher knocked over two early points for Naomh Conaill but Paula McGrory and Anne-Maire Gallagher had Buncrana back on level terms very quickly. Laoise Ward restored the Glenties lead and then Alanah Mc Donnell raced onto a long ball in and slotted to the net for the game’s first goal in the 7th minute. Paula Mc Grory had a great chance to equalise two minutes later but blasted wide from 13 mts. Mc Grory pointed to leave a goal in it but in the 14th minute Joanne Gallagher finished off a super Naomh Conaill move with an excellent finish. The teams then exchanged four points between them , Aoife Mc Donnell got both for Naomh Conaill while Mc Grory and Caroline Gallagher replied for Buncrana to leave the score 2-05 to 0-05. Then in the final minute of the half Alanah and then her sister Aoife burst through the Buncrana defence to blast home to cracking goals , both to the same top corner of the net and at 4-05 tom 0-05 in Naomh Conaill’s favour it was surely game over. Charlie Collins reports from O Donnell Park.
