Loreto bag points and celebrate with EYHL championship trophy

FOR Loreto this game was all about receiving their EYHL Division One Championship trophy and the medals that went with it.

For opponents Old Alexandra it was holding on to that EYHL Champions Trophy play-off spot by trying to get at least a point to be safe in that spot.

And if a defeat were to happen it would have to be, by less than three goals otherwise a draw for Ulster Elks would see them snatch the 6th place in the table on goal difference.

Loreto took the lead in the 19th minute when Yasmin Pratt converted a penalty corner.

The Rathfarnham side led 2-0 in the 22nd minute after Hannah Matthew’s converted penalty corner in the last play of the first half.

Old Alexandra got on the scoresheet when Aoife Taaffe converted a penalty corner to leave the score 2-1 at the half-time break.

Loreto continued to exert pressure by winning penalty corners and in the 42nd minute they were awarded a penalty stroke which Hannah McLoughlin converted to leave the final score Loreto 3 Old Alexandra 1