{"id":1142,"date":"2010-03-15T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:13:35","slug":"ail-ladies-cup-cooke-3-bohemians-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ail-ladies-cup-cooke-3-bohemians-8\/","title":{"rendered":"AIL Ladies Cup: Cooke 3 Bohemians 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday 14th March. Report and pictures by John McMurtry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cooke Ladies bowed out of this seasons AIL Ladies Cup with a narrow 3 &#8211; 8 defeat by Bohemians Ladies at Shaws Bridge on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Playing with a strong breeze behind them Cooke dominated the opening skirmishes keeping the visitors pinned in their own half but despite their best efforts, and\u00a0 thanks to a well organised Bohemians defence,\u00a0 the Belfast side failed to force their way over the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A single penalty was scant reward for Cooke&#8217;s territorial advantage, but with the Belfast pack dominating the breakdown they turned round at the break with a degree of confidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/intouchrugby\/14thMarch2010CookeVBohemianAILLadiesCup#\">AIL Ladies Cup. Cooke v Bohemians pictures.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cooke started the second half well but Bohemians managed to soak up the pressure and eventually forced their way down field. After a strong run by the Munster side&#8217;s outside centre, and quick hands from their scrum half, the Bohemians wing, Aisling Hutchings, found herself in space and was able to touch down in the corner for a decisive try.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bohemians were definitely buoyed by their score and with their scrum half controlling the game they proceeded to dominate the next twenty minutes, controlling territory and breaking well with a well executed\u00a0 kick and chase game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bohemians went further ahead with a penalty with about ten minutes to go and Cooke raised their game for one last effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite some strong runs from Cooke&#8217;s out half and centres they were unable to break down the Bohemian defence and the game finished with the Munster side winning 3 &#8211; 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 14th March. Report and pictures by John McMurtry. Cooke Ladies bowed out of this seasons AIL Ladies Cup with a narrow 3 &#8211; 8 defeat by Bohemians Ladies at Shaws Bridge on Sunday afternoon. Playing with a strong breeze behind them Cooke dominated the opening skirmishes keeping the visitors pinned in their own half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[932,967,969,968,965,966],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooke","tag-ail-ladies-cup","tag-aisling-hutchings","tag-bohemian-ladies","tag-cooke-ladies","tag-cooke-v-bohemians","tag-womens-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}