ForzaForth
27/08/2017, 6:25 PM
With four Wexford players still in Taipei on University duty, this was a potential banana-skin but proved not to be the case as Wexford attacked more at less at will, led by Katrina Parrock up front who improves with every game. With Jess Gleeson said to be recovering from illness, Wexford started with Sophie, Jenny, Nicola, Lolly, Lauren, Linda, Edel, Kylie, Orla, Emma andwith Katrina up front. Wexford started strongly and, on seven minutes, Katrina Parrock couldn’t direct a good cross by an excellent Emma Hansberry onto the target. Then, Emma Hansberry beat Tamara Furlong in the Kilkenny goal to a 50-50 ball, but her shot was deflected by the last Kilkenny defender for acorner. However, just before the quarter-hour mark, Edel Kennedy placed a through-ball to Kylie Murphy, who crunched Tamara Furlong in another 50-50, and the ball fell to Kylie for aneasy tap-in for 1-0 to Wexford. Wexford continued their pressure on the Kilkenny goal, and Jenny O’Keeffe clipped the top of the cross-bar with a shot/cross before Katrina Parrock headed over froma cross by Linda Douglas. On 28 minutes, Katrina Parrock seemed to make the game safe for Wexford as she headed home a cross by Wexford’s Jenny O’Keeffe as you couldn’t see Kilkenny getting two goals in the match. Two minutes later, an apparently nonchalant shot by Parrock with her left and presumed weaker foot, flew past Tamara Furlong in the Kilkenny goal from twenty yards out, and Wexford were three goals up. Kilkenny then had their first real effort on target when a volley from 35 yards out nearly caught Sophie Lenehan out in the Wexford goal but went wide. Orla Casey nearly added a fourth for Wexford with a header which went just wide of the Kilkenny upright and Wexford were three goals ahead at half-time.