Saturday 9 May 2009, Tir Chonaill Park, Greenford

Tara 3-11 V Croydon 0-5

Croydon commenced their Senior Championship campaign against Tara in Greenford on Saturday.  Tara began the game in blistering form with a well taken goal from Denise Gilligan and closely followed up with a point.  Croydon responded with a quickly taken puck-out to the middle of the field which was secured by Aishling Touhy and converted in stylish fashion to get Croydon on the scoreboard.  Some excellent play followed with many battles around the centre of the field between Marie Clarke and Meabh Brennan of Croydon and Tara respectively.   Croydon battled hard but failed to capitalise on their opportunities up front as Tara continued to dominate the score line.

The second half resumed in the same vein with Tara continuing to pressurise the Croydon backline.  An excellent up-front pairing of Bid Grennan and Denise Gilligan saw the points clock up for Tara.  Croydon could only respond with two pointed frees from Sharon McNeela as many other chances failed to reach the mark from their forward line.  Tara’s defence was solid through-out with an excellent performance by Ann Gleeson in particular.  Tara ran out convincing winners of the day as they made their intentions clear on gaining the title this year.

Croydon: C McCarthy, J McGivney, S Allen, M Power, S McNeela, E Dunphy, S O’Donoughe, M Mullhall, M Clarke, A Tuohy, S Keatley, L Jones, M Tierney, B Hehir, C Lenihan, Subs M Dillion