Women’s AIL: Cooke 29 Ballincollig 17

On Saturday evening Ballincollig made the long trip up from Co Cork to play Cooke in a Women’s AIL fixture at Shawsbridge. It was a clear windless night after the previous day’s storms. I took in the 1st half.

Ballincollig enjoyed early possession and took the lead in the 9th minute, when Katie O’Sullivan was driven over from a lineout maul for a 5-0 lead.

Niamh Marley dives over, in the corner, to open the scoring for Cooke

Cooke responded in the 13th minute when Niamh Marley took advantage of a misfielded kick to dive over the right corner to level the score at 5-5.

Enya Hughes scores the 1st of her brace of tries . . .

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