On Tuesday, the 18th of January, our U/16 GAA team headed off to Maynooth to play the girls team from Maynooth post-primary school. This was our first match of both the school year and our first match of 2011.
Not an awful lot of people had been turning out to training so the expectations were quite low. We got to the dressing rooms in Maynooth GAA club and we got togged out with our jerseys, shorts, socks and boots. We had to walk then from the club dressing rooms about a mile up the road to their other pitch. We had to play on this pitch because it was in the best condition of all of their pitches.
The match got off to an okay start with both teams scoring a point in the first three or four minutes. Maynooth began to dominate the match then, winning all of our kickouts and their own kickouts. We needed to pull our heads together in order to reverse the situation. At half time we were a good bit down to Maynooth. We discussed where we needed to do better and what we needed to keep doing.
The second half got off to a much better start for us. We had much more mid-field advantage and we took our chances, getting a lot of scores for ourselves. The end result was still to our disadvantage, but we tried our best in the second half which was enough to keep our coaches Mr K and Mr W content!
We walked back up to the dressing rooms, and we got ready to go back to school. We pleaded the teachers to stop at the shop on the way home, but unfortunately Mr K had to be back to teach the last class as it was a group of sixth years!
Despite losing the match, we still had a good day out!
On Wednesday, February 2nd, we had a home match against Kilcock. This was a much better match than the Maynooth match. However, before the match started we were almost having to pull out as we didn't have full team! We weren't long recruiting people to play for us! We had to make a few quick, last minute, position changes. We then ran out onto the pitch-that was basically our warm-up! We quickly did a few stretches while we waited on our captain, Leah, to go over to the referee.
Like the Maynooth game, both teams were off to a good start. For the first 10 to 15 minutes, the two teams were pretty level. For the last half of the first half, we pushed forward and got a good few scores in. Kilcock, did the same after! At half time, the two teams were very close. We were down by only a couple of points. For the second we really pulled our heads together, taking and getting score after score. We had possession of the ball for most of the second half. In the end we won by a goal.
Our coaches were delighted with us. Unfortunately though, Maynooth had also beaten Kilcock so they were the team that got through to the next round in our group
Hopefully next year will be better luck for us with GAA and maybe, just maybe, more girls will come out and join the team!
Niamh! :D
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