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Published 11:20 3 Feb 2020 GMT
By Tomás Keating
Upon resumption, the Lake County opened the scoring again as substitute Anna Jones clipped over a free, but Galway replied with a goal from Ailbhe Davoren, who blasted to the roof of the net in the 35th minute.
Olivia Divilly got her first score of the day, and she then turned provider to set up Róisín Leonard, who buried her second goal, as Galway led 4-8 to 0-5 after 49 minutes.
Archibold pointed before there was a long break due to an injury to Westmeath player Sarah Dolan. When play resumed, Ailish Morrissey raised a white flag and Róisín Leonard rounded Aoife Temple and scored her third goal to complete a memorable day personally.
McCartan replied with a score for Sean Finnegan’s side but Galway showed their dominance as Leanne Coen and Divilly registered scores deep into injury-time.
Scorers – Galway: R Leonard 3-4 (1f), S Conneally 1-0, A Davoren 1-0, T Leonard 0-3 (2f), O Divilly 0-2, L Coen 0-1, A Morrissey 0-1. Westmeath: L Archibold 0-3, L McCartan 0-3, A Jones 0-1 (1f).
GALWAY: D Gower; Chloe Crowe, S Lynch, S Molloy; F Cooney, C Cooney, L Coen; O Divilly, A Davoren; L Noone, T Leonard, A Trill; L Hannon, R Leonard, S Conneally. Subs: C Miskell for Conneally (46), N Connolly for Lynch (48), B Murphy for F Cooney (53), R Ní Fhlatharta for Hannon (53), E Gannon for Noone (53), A Morrissey for T Leonard (53), L Diskin for Gower (55), S Divilly for Davoren (69), Chelsie Crowe for Trill (63).
WESTMEATH: L McCormack; R Dillon, K McDermott, L Power; F Coyle, F Claffey, A Roche; J Maher, V Carr; A Dolan, L Archibold, L McCartan; T Dillon, S McCormack, J Draper. Subs: E Kelly for Draper (17), S Dolan for Power inj. (19), A Jones for Maher (h-t), A Temple for L McCormack (41), K Hegerty for S McCormack (45), C Thornton for S Dolan inj. (52).
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