U14 girls make winning start to Gaelic season

Mr Dagen writes: “Our U14 Gaelic girls started their season yesterday with a friendly against Lecale Trinity Grammar. From the throw-in, the Shimna girls impressed with Ellie winning the ball in midfield, a nice pass to Evie lead Evie in for a goal to give Shimna the best start. For the remainder of the first half, Shimna impressed with Robyn, Teaghan and Evie contributing more scores.

The 2nd half saw Lecale come into the game more and they started to play some free flowing football, however Maddy was exceptional in the full back line and cut out most attacks to set us their way to counter. Izzy, Teaghan, Ellie and, again, Evie kept the scoreboard ticking over for a Shimna victory.

This was a great team effort from the Shimna girls with Maddy, Grace, Abbie and Evie working tiresly to turn the ball over in defence, Ellie and Evie covering the pitch in midfield and Izzy, Teaghan and Robyn giving us attacking options. Player of the match was Evie who worked the whole game in defence and attack and finished the game with an impressive 2–4.

A great start from the girls and preparation in well underway for the their Ulster LGFA blitz in 2 weeks time. Training takes place on Tuesdays after school.”