Sport in Brief | Stephen Barry
Ladies Soccer: UCC student Lauren Murphy was in Serbia for the penultimate week of October as part of the Irish U19 team competing in the first qualifying round of the UEFA European Women’s U19 Championships. Needing to finish in the top two of a four team group, Murphy featured at full-back for the opener against Cyprus (3-0) and was a 70th minute replacement against Latvia (11-0). She was restored to the first team for the game to decide the group winners against hosts Serbia, who had defeated Ireland at the same ground only seven months previously. However Murphy, on set-piece duties, and her colleagues managed to turn the tables on the Serbs, coming from behind for a 3-2 victory. Twenty teams advances to the final qualifying rounds, fixed for spring 2013. In Murphy’s absence, UCC fell to their first loss of the season to WCSAI Premier South leaders, IT Tralee.Ultimate Frisbee: IFDA club of the year, UCC won the Ladies Indoor Intervarsities with a 9-6 win over Trinity College. After back-to-back runner-up finishes, UCC went a step further on Saturday afternoon last. In the UL sports hall, UCC stormed out of the blocks and into a five-two lead in the first-to-nine decider. Trinity racked up a run of scores to level before UCC again pulled ahead, 7-5. Trinity pulled a point back before UCC sealed the deal with a pair of catches in the opposition endzone.GAA: In the week in which the UCC handballers defeated Trinity in the 60X30 Team All-Ireland Intervarsities and UCC graduate Anhony Nash took home a hurling All-Star, the Fresher footballers teed up the coming two weeks with a 1-20 to 1-13 victory over Cork IT. CIT will have plenty of opportunity for revenge as all of the other major UCC GAA teams prepare for local derbies within the space of a week. The senior footballers and hurlers will make the journey down Rossa Avenue on Wednesday and Thurday before the fresher hurlers welcome CIT to the Mardyke the following Wednesday.
