The Spa senior ladies travelled to Templenoe today to play ISG in Round 7 of the Division 3 Credit Union Donal Curtin Cup. It was very warm conditions but that didn’t stop both teams starting at a lightning pace.

ISG opened the scoresheet with a fine point and were unlucky to not add to that straight away as they followed it with two close wides. Eimear Beazley got Spa’s first point and that seemed to settle Spa. It was a very strong first half performance by Spa with goals coming from Meghann Cronin, Maireád Bennett (pen) and Vanessa Dineen. Points from Liadh Tobin, Aisling Mahony & Maireád Bennett really put Spa in the driving seat. The score at half time was 3:07 to 1:02.

ISG came out after half time determined to turn the game around and they increased their work rate hugely and turned over a lot of ball depriving the Spa forwards of any ball. The Spa’s defence was under huge pressure and tired legs started to show . Ciara Moynihan getting injured was a big blow for Spa but they dug deep and did just enough to hold off a very impressive ISG comeback. The final score was 3:09 to 3:06 to Spa.

Well done to all the girls for a superb performance in that heat and well done to management, Tomás Daly, Craig Power and Ivor Flynn and Mags Cronin for all your help.