Ladies survive Kileavy battle to progress to semi finals
New York survived a scare from the Armagh Champions to progress through to the semi finals in Kevin Lynch Park. Kileavy were even ahead of the ladies in the initial stages of the game as the girls conceded their first scores of the Feile Championship a remarkable achievement in over 60 minutes of football without conceding a score. The ladies response was instant to the Kileavy threat with Margaret Brady producing a great score after a well worked move starting with Mairead Hynes. The ladies followed this with a siege on the Kileavy goal with Margaret Brady bundling in an effort from 6 yards. Mairead Ruane was on fire around the middle of the park and someone seemed able to get near her as soon as she got on the ball and she highlighted her class with a superb finish into the goals in the 8th minute. Great play around the middle of the park from MVP Kerilynn O’Keffe, who had just celebrated her birthday in Dungiven on Thursday evening, led to New Yorks 3rd goal another Levine Classic who is surely in the running for Feile top scorer in both the boys and girls sections, Mairead Hynes took the sensible option and pointed from a penalty moments after. Heather Durkan popped up with another goal to add to her tally in the championship. However this was not to be another rout for the girls and Kileavy got a well worked score themselves from the centre forward and another point just before the interval to leave the scores 4-02 to 1-02 at half time.
Once again the New York girls distinguished themselves all around the park with Shannon Hughes getting in a great block to thwart another Kileavy attack, Mary Kate Lisi was sidestepping anything that came near her while Kerilyn was reading the game like she had the script in her hand judging every pass the Kileavy midfield tried to make inside to their forwards. Mairead Hynes hit another goal into the bottom left while Johanna Levine fisted in a great goal after Catherine Treacy did all the donkey work in the corner. Overall another team performance from the city slickers with Caitlin Mc Kenna getting 1-02 ,Nichole Dineson doing a great job in goals with a safe pair of hands while Colleen Chzanowski must have covered every blade of grass cover tackling and providing support for any offensive play in the match. MVP Kerilynn O’Keffe over for her first time in Ireland “We really made a big effort in this game; we really want to get through to the semi finals and go on to the final. Personal highlight for me in this game was my catch in the middle of the park and getting the ball into the forwards.”
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