U12 Football

U12C County Championship Quarter-Final

Tuesday, September 10th, Dromtarriffe

Bride Rovers 7-10             Dromtarriffe 1-4.

Our U12s put up a great performance, coming soon after a tough game at Erins Own, to comfortably overcome Dromtarriffe at their pitch on Tuesday, September 10th. This set up a semi-final meeting with Mourneabbey on Monday, September 16th at Mallow.

U12C County Championship Semi-Final

Monday, September 16th, Mallow

Bride Rovers 4-9               Mourneabbey 0-9

Bride Rovers qualified for a second county final in a week when our U12s had an emphatic win over Mourneabbey in Mallow on Monday night. After conceding the first 2 points of the game, our girls largely took over and had the better of exchanges for the rest of the half. We continued in the same manner in the second half and the result was not in doubt throughout. We picked off some fantastic scores and our backs were very tight while Ella Quinlan kept a clean sheet in goals.

U12 football is strong in East Cork this year as Erins Own, narrow winners over the Rovers in the East Cork league, have now qualified for the A final, beating Glanmire by one point in their semi-final. Furthermore, Aghada will provide our opposition in the B final which is provisionally scheduled to be played this weekend. The quality of this local competition has stood to our team also and we’re now just one hour away from another county title. The older members of the panel also took part in the 2011 U12 county final which we lost agonisingly to Passage and that experience should also stand to them when they face Aghada this time around.

Match Panel :  Ella Quinlan, Sorcha Tobin, Rachael O Flynn, Rebecca Walsh, Caoimhe O Sullivan, Fiona Barry, Shauna O Connell, Sarah Murphy, Aoife Cowman, Sophie Dorgan, Katie Quirke, Anna Murray, Ciara O Flynn, Lucy Hicks, Caoimhe Hazelwood, Bronagh Cleary, Rebecca Hill, Alice Murray, Rebecca Howe

U16 Football

U16B County Quarter-Final

Sunday, September 15th , Glanworth

Bride Rovers 2-5               Boherbue 2-12

Our U16s exited the 2013 county championship but emerged with great credit from a hard-fought encounter with Boherbue in the county quarter final at Glanworth last Sunday. Boherbue came to this game as one of the favourites in the B grade this year and are very strong physically whilst playing the game in a tough but clean fashion. Bride Rovers could not take advantage of a strong wind in the first half, our only scores being 2 points each from Elaine and Grace Culloty. This left us turning around level at 4 points each at half-time and Boherbue had the advantage of the elements in the second half. They make it pay and ,while Meg Kelliher and Karen Sheehan both scored goals in that second period, Boherbue enjoyed the higher scoring rate to win by 7 points at the end. This group still has plenty to look forward to, back in East Cork with a league final and a championship semi-final still to play for.

Match Panel : Panel : Madison Parle, Sarah O’Flynn, Niamh Murphy, Grainne Noonan, Aine Cashman, Laura Quirke , Aoife O’Riordan, Emma Roche,  Grace Culloty (0-3), Elaine Culloty (0-2), Michelle Lane, Karen Sheehan (1-0), Meg Kelliher (1-0), Aoife Deasy, Shauna O’Connell, , Alice O’Keeffe, Emma Hazelwood,  Maria O’Sullivan, Emma Barry, Katie Quirke.

Senior Football

Senior B Semi-Final

Bride Rovers 0-11 Clonakilty 1-19

We exited the Senior B competition at CIT on Thursday, September 12th when we were beaten by Clonakilty at the semi-final stage. Our girls matched Clon for much of the match and only trailed by a point at half-time after they notched a  goal on the stroke of half-time. Clonakilty upped their performance as the game entered the closing stages and ran out comfortable winners in the end. Well done to all our panel and to the management team of Irene Hogan, Betty Cahill and Sinead O’ Driscoll for all their efforts throughout the year.

Junior Football

Our junior football team have qualified for the knock-out stages of the county championship and will face Mourneabbey B in the next round, opposition we already played in the league earlier in the year. September 21st has been mentioned as a provisional date for this match.

U14 Football

Our East Cork championship semi-final meeting with Rockban is now scheduled for Saturday, September 21stat 5:30pm. Venue is Rathcormac.

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