Longford ladies no match for much superior Carlow
Lidl Ladies Football National League Division 4 - Round 6
While Longford crashed to a heavy defeat against a much superior Carlow side at C&D Devine Park, Mostrim on Sunday, they could still reach the Lidl Ladies Football National League Division 4 semi-finals should they succeed in winning their remaining games away to Kilkenny and Offaly.
Carlow . . . 4-13 Longford . . . 0-3
There was no stopping the unbeaten Carlow outfit who were winning their sixth consecutive match this season and it was all over as a contest at the break with the visitors building up a very commanding 3-6 to 0-2 lead.
Things went from bad to worse for Longford when they were reduced to 14 players following a harsh straight red card for midfielder Sian Gallagher at the start of the second half and another blow was suffered soon after when centre-half-forward Katie Crawford was forced to retire injured.
Rampant Carlow added 1-7 to their most emphatic tally on the changeover with the home county restricted to a solitary point.
The Longford scores were registered by Sian Gallagher and Aoife Darcy (2) and while this is a game they will want to forget in a hurry, a win is strongly expected to materialise against pointless Kilkenny on Sunday next.
LONGFORD: Siobhan Egan (Carrickedmond); Grace Kenny (Longford Slashers), Leanne Keegan (St Brigid’s Gaels Ardagh), Riane McGrath (Killoe); Kate McEntire (Dromard), Emma Doris (Killoe), Emma Farrell (St Brigid’s Gaels Ardagh); Sian Gallagher (St Brigid’s Gaels Ardagh, 0-1), Shauna Hagan (Dromard); Katelyn McKeon (Clonguish), Katie Crawford (Carrickedmond), Ailbhe Brady (Mostrim); Edel Sheehy (Mullinalaghta), Kamille Burke (Clonguish), Aoife Darcy (Clonguish, 0-2, 1 free).
Subs used:- Amy Creegan (Ballymore) for Grace Kenny, Aoife Nolan (Rathcline) for Katie Crawford (injured), Hannah Burke (Clonguish) for Edel Sheehy, Sarah Macken (Colmcille) for Kate McEntire, Grace McEvoy (Ballymore) for Kamille Burke, Eileen Boyle (Ballymore) for Riane McGrath and Funmi Talabi (Mostrim) for Katelyn McKeon.