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Mullingar Ladies vs Navan

November 25, 2014

October 19, 2014. Ladies Leinster League Div1.
Mullingar 88 Navan 0

Mullingar women follow chaps to top of table with record win
By Finian Coghlan

Mullingar women racked up their greatest victory in their five years in
existence with a outrageous display of running rugby that will have all in
their division quaking in their boots.
Matching the weekend’s achievements of their X-chromosomal compatriots, the
women also go to the top of Division 1 in Leinster, and the though early
days yet, the dream of AIL rugby being played in Cullion next season is
becoming more tangible with each result.
It was very hard to single out a stand-out player, such was the overall
cohesiveness displayed, but suffice to say that normal service has resumed
in midfield with Louise Kelly bagging her first hatrick of the season
before half time.
She would have been joined on this rostrum by the pacy Maye, but she was
cruelly subbed by her evil husband after she sauntered in for her second.
Newcomer Sarah Crosbie looks like she fitting in well in the back row, and
marked her home debut with a fine try.
Last year’s Plate final hero Stacy Boland was also off the mark for the
season with a trademark burst over from short, whilst the zippy and lithe
Ellen Tait at the back is the find of the season and her brace on Sunday
will surely be the first of a pile of scores this season.
Though unlucky not to feature on the enormous scoresheet, the engine room
of Rattigan, Andrews, Talbot and O’Brien dotted every I and crossed every
t, thus allowing all the dazzle fairies outside to shine. Miller noticed.
Both Julie Dunne and Katie Layde had the distinct pleasure of scoring in
front of their dads, and we all felt for Teenie Burke as she was
maddeningly frustrated just yards short of her maiden score, and danced her
ickle try-stopped strop once again.
Upcoming fixtures
Both men and women have a week off, before sharing the bus to the Model
County on Novenber 2 for the chaps to face New Ross and the women Wexford.
Team: 1. Aoife Bagnall, 2. Adrienne Andrews, 3. Tracey Talbot, 4. Claire
O’Brien, 5. Sylvia Rattigan, 6. Sarah Crosbie, 7. Katie Layde, 8.Clodagh
Cleary, 9. Sinead Holmes, 10. Niamh ‘Crilly’ Kennedy, 11. LeeAnne
Miller-Maye, 12. Jenny Gibson, 13. Louise Kelly, 14. Olive Butler, 15.
Ellen Tait. Subs used: Gemma Maybury, Stacy Boland, Teenie Burke, Nicola
Rowntree, Julie Dunne, Gillian Kelly.
Tries: Kelly (3), Miller-Maye (2), Tait (2), Bagnall, Butler, Crosbie,
Layde, Boland, Kennedy, Dunne
Cons: Tait, Kennedy (8)
Top try scorers: Andrew Coade (6), Matthew Coade (5), Paul Maxwell, Stacy
Boland, Olive Butler, Louise Kelly (4), Sam Blair Diarmuid Raleigh Johnny
Butler (3), Conor Jack, Adam Kerroum, Davy O’Reilly, LeeAnne Miller-Maye,
Ellen Tait (2), Darech Geraghty, Darren Brady, Ronan Wallace, Ryan Tighe,
Cormac Dunne, Darren Brady, Richie Pyke, Luke Peppard, Aoife Bagnall, Sarah
Crosbie, Katie Layde, Niamh Kennedy, Julie Dunne

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