Div 3 - Derry v Westmeath - Match Preview
Derry’s second team are home to
Westmeath in the third and final game of their league campaign. With three of the starting fifteen from the
last two games away with other commitments, manager Donna Mc Closkey says “I
will have good chance to look at some of the other young players in the panel
and it will be a good opportunity for them to gain some experience at a very
high level. A lot of this panel are just
out of under 16 in 2007 and we have had two very hard but valuable games
against Offaly and Down. But let’s
remember that these two teams have been playing in Division 3 for the last
number of years.” Mc Closkey points out
that there is a great spirit with in this group of players who are eager to
learn and what better way than to play games against great teams like Down.
With
Derry and Westmeath out of the running to
qualify, both sides will be playing for pride and looking to end the Junior
league campaign on a high. For Derry’s young camogs,
this campaign is all about development and experience and not necessarily
results. Westmeath will obviously be favourites and will hope to lay down a
marker for when the two sides meet again later in the year in the Nancy Murray
Championship. But this young oak leaf side is made of strong stuff and, with a
young ambitious squad that is made up almost completely of All Ireland U16 and
College winning players, a first victory of the season may not be out of the
question.
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