U12 girls start their DWSL campaign with a decisive 13-1 victory over Ratoath

After a long series of pitches being declared unplayable, we were delighted to find that we would finally get to play our first official DWSL match against Ratoath. Some people were not pleased by the fact that we had to get up so early on a Sunday morning, but there was a great turnout of players and parents nevertheless.

The day was quite cold, but the Castleknock girls did not waste much time warming things up. Dearbhla scored from Emma's corner after only 2 minutes of play. A few minutes later, Catherine dribbled half the length of the pitch and then scored a peach of a goal, After 11 minutes Áine's shot was narrowly wide, but Catherine got possession from the kick out and scored her second goal to make the score 3-0.

Our girls took total command of the match from this point onwards. After 14 minutes
Emma stretched our lead to 4-0 and with 22 minutes on the clock Ellie connected with a rebounded shot to make it 5-0. Just before half time, Catherine got another goal to secure her hat trick and this made her a deserving winner of the player-of-the-match title.

As the second half got under way, it was clear that Castleknock were not going to rest on their 6 goal lead. Leah opened the scoring with an excellent shot as the 2nd half was just beginning. After 5 minutes Aoibheann dribbled length of the pitch and scored. Shortly afterwards she scored 3 more goals to put the score at 11-0 and her personal tally of 4 is probably a club record.

As the match progressed, Sarah scored a goal to stretch the lead to 12-0. I was delighted to see that the Ratoath team did not give up and they scored an excellent goal in the 22nd minute. However, the Castleknock team did not relax and Dearbhla scored another goal in the dying minutes to leave the score at 13-1.

I am very proud of this performance and I hope that their parents can pull off a similar result in the table quiz on Thursday night!!