St Louis win 7 in a row

St Louis win 7 in a row

ULSTER
U19A SCHOOLS FINAL St. Louis, Monaghan 4-5 Mount
Lourdes, Enniskillen 0-7

St. Louis Monaghan won their seventh consecutive
Ulster U19A title on Tuesday when they had ten points
to spare over Mount Lourdes, Enniskillen at a very
wet Roslea. Mount Lourdes captain Aisling Mc Caughey
opened the scoring when she fired over at the end
of their first attack. A minute later Gemma Scallon
doubled their lead, scoreing a close range free.
In the fifth minute St. Louis took took the lead
when the excellent Ciara Mc Anespie cut in from
the right, beat three defenders and blasted to the
net. Scallon then fired over another free to leave
the sides level.

At the end of the first quarter Ciara Connolly (2)
and Nicola Fahy pointed to give the Monaghan school
a three point advantage. Mount Lourdes responded
with the Gemma Scallon pointing three frees and
another point from Eimear Martin putting them back
in the lead. Then disaster struck for the Enniskillen
outfit. They had trouble coping with the pacey Ciara
Mc Anespie so decided to double up on her. With
the next two Louis attacks Mc Anespie found the
unmarked Nicola Fahy who in turn found the net to
give the holders a halftime lead of 3-3 to 0-7.

The second half was tight and scores were at a premium.
The first didn’t arrive until the 13th minute when
Alana Hackett fired over for St. Louis. Midfielder
Charlotte Brady also opened her account and then
on 18 minutes Ciara Mc Anespie pick up a long ball
from Caroline Mc Aree and buried to the Enniskillen
net. With ten minutes to go Mount Lourdes laid siege
to the Louis goal but the holders defence was resolute
and St. Louis went on to win 4-5 to 0-7.

Scorers:

St. Louis: N. Fahy 2-1, C. Mc Anespie 2-0, C.
Connolly 0-2, C. Brady and A. Hackett 0-1 each
Mount Lourdes: G. Scallon 0-5(all frees),
A. Mc Caughey and Eimear Martin 0-1 each
Referee: F. Mc Donald (Armagh)

Ulster PRO – Paul Swift (pswift5@eircom.net)