Leanne Slevin, Westmeath, gets to the ball ahead of Aine Brady, Cavan, when the sides met in the NFL Div 2 game at TEG Cusack Park, earlier this year.

Westmeath ladies' championship ambitions on the line

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Westmeath Ladies meet Cavan in TEG Cusack Park on Sunday (2pm) with their TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship on the line.

Both teams have lost their opening group one game to Down, and a win for either will send them into the last eight, with Down already through to the quarter-finals as table-toppers, Westmeath and Cavan will battle it out for the other last-eight slot on offer.

Cavan may have been relegated from Division 2 of the Lidl NFL and they’ve found the going tough in the Championship but Westmeath won’t need reminding that the Breffni ladies turned them over in the League in Mullingar.

Westmeath fared better against Down, losing by two points, while Cavan finished seven points adrift of the Ulster champions in the recent group games.

Should Westmeath and Cavan draw, criteria will come into play to determine who makes it through to the quarter-finals.

In the first instance, the team progressing is the team that registers the highest number of points (scores converted over the bar) in the tie, with scoring difference (Westmeath -2 and Cavan -7) coming into play if they still can’t be separated.

Westmeath: L McCormack (capt.); L McCartan, K Boyce-Jordan, L Power; C Kelly, F Coyle, R Dillon; C Kilmurray, T Dillon; A Ruane, L Slevin, A Jones, M Monaghan; S Dillon, K Hegarty, A Donlon.

Cavan: E Baugh, N Briody, Á Brady (capt.), N Smith; K Tuipulotu, R Dolan, C Charters; A Cahill, R Gilsenan; Z Fay, C Brady, A Wharton; E Longair, R McLoughlin, S Levingstone.

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