Camogie League wrap: Cork have too much for Galway

A first-half goal by Rachel O'Shea in addition to eight pointed frees from Joanne Casey propelled Cork’s intermediates to a 1-13 to 0-10 triumph over their Galway counterparts in the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 2 quarter-final in Moneygall.

The Rebels had to overcome a lightning start by their opponents, who led by 0-04 to 0-01 after just six minutes, with two points [one from a free] by Katie Gilchrist and one each by Lauras Kelly and Loughnane.

They outscored the Galwegians by 1-06 to 0-02 for the remainder of the half however, O’Shea raising a green flag in the 18th minute. The lively Hayley Ryan registered three points from play and with Casey converting three placed balls, it was 1-07 to 0-06 at half-time.

Cork began the second half strongly with three more pointed frees from their Inniscarra sharpshooter and another from O’Shea to extend their advantage to seven. Though Galway had a run of three on the trot themselves, Kelly bringing her tally to three with a pair and Gilchrist notching up her fourth point, it was Casey who had the final say from a couple of frees for Cork to progress to next weekend’s semi-finals.

In the Division 2 relegation play-off, Laois retained their status in the second tier by defeating Tipperary 2-10 to 0-13 at St Rynagh’s in Banagher, meaning that the Tipp second string will now play Kildare in a bid to avoid making the drop.

In Division 3, Shanise Fitzsimons hit five goals Cavan accounted for Dublin by 5-11 to 2-09 to set themselves up nicely for a League final clash with Wexford, who were untroubled in accounting for Down by 5-15 to 0-03.

Philip Brady’s upwardly mobile Breffni side held the upper hand for most of proceedings, thanks to a brace of goals in the opening