As reports go, this is the hardest one so far this season. On Tuesday evening, we welcomed our near neighbours Piltown to Suir Cresent for the Cup Semi Final. Piltown started the brighter, but our girls kept them at bay until they took the lead on 21 minutes, and on 31 minutes, they doubled their lead. The girls dug deep and created a couple of glorious chances to get us back in the tie but were denied. Eventually, our pressure paid off when Áine Connery delivered a great goal coming up to half time. The second half started much like the first, but we struck in the 51st minute through Keelin Byrne to level up the game. It was end to end stuff for the remainder of the 80 minutes. Full time 2 2, so extra time beckoned. On the 84th minute Piltown hit our net to take the lead again. Our girls tried and tried to get a deserved equaliser, but unfortunately, it wasn’t to be. Even in defeat, it possibly was the best performance of the girls so far. We are after having a very good few weeks, and this team is really after developing into a great little team.
But we have to raise ourselves again this week as on Thursday evening we head to Dungarvan for a B League semi-final. There is still plenty to play for.