Promoted Cavan Eagles get long-awaited Domino's Super League victory

After a torrid start to their Domino’s Women’s Super League campaign, the newly-promoted McEvoy’s Cavan Eagles finally got their season up and running with a 70-57 triumph over Midlands Park Portlaoise Panthers.

Eagles biggest lead turned out to be a winning lead driven by an all-around team performance with standout performances namely from Katie O’Sullivan and Mazatkan Harris. O’Sullivan scored 21 on 6-10 shooting from the field with 26 efficiency. As for Harris, she kept up her strong individual start to the season with 11 of her own points accompanied by 12 rebounds keeping up her double-double average start to her Super League career.

As for Portlaoise, it is now two losses on the bounce following a tough loss to Utility Trust St. Paul's Killarney. It was a tough day at the office offensively for the Panthers shooting 7-20 from three and just 25% from inside the three-point line. Jessica Fressle was a positive on both sides of the ball for Portlaoise with 13 points and 10 rebounds on 15 efficiency. In a game where the Laois side led by as many as 15 points at one stage, they will come away thinking it is back to the drawing board as they prepare to welcome UCC Glanmire next weekend and look to break even in the table after four games have concluded.

Elsewhere, Utility Trust St. Paul's Killarney picked up where they left off against Portlaoise last weekend and gained a comfortable 80-67 victory over Catalyst Fr. Mathews today in Kerry. The win for St. Paul's keeps them at a 100% record in the Domino’s Women’s Super League table. Fr. Mathew's took the lead as the game tipped off, Killarney regained the lead two minutes in, and from there, they never surrendered it. Four Killarney players scored at least 15 points with both Tara Cousins and Lorraine Scanlon hitting 16, Lovisa Hevinder with 19 and then Maisie Burnham had her third-straight twenty-point performance keeping a 21.3 points per game average as the Kerry ladies go 3-0.

Unfortunately for Catalyst Fr. Mathew's, it is a third straight defeat as they are now 0-3 in the Domino's Super League standings. In what was a fairly sobering day for the Cork side, it was Laila Blair who provided a shining spark with 34 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals on 37 efficiency. Blair had an strong shooting showing on her 34 with 5-9 from three and 56% from the field. Fr. Mathews will face a challenging task next weekend as they face the defending champions in Killester looking to get that first notch in the win column.

In the last Saturday offering this weekend, we saw a battle between the 2-0 Trinity Meteors and the 1-1 SETU Waterford Wildcats go right down to the wire with Alyssa Frescas hitting a shot at the buzzer to hand Trinity their first defeat of the season and send Waterford to 2-1 in the Super League table. Frescas dropped 32 points and 10 rebounds whilst being supported by Sarah Hickey who had 19 and 11 rebounds in a game that finished 68-66 to the Wildcats.

 Kate Hickey of SETU Waterford Wildcats against Trinity Meteors in the Domino's Women's Super League

What a way to win it at the death from Alyssa Frescas 🫡

Wildcats secure their second win of the season in the Domino’s Women’s Super League against Trinity Meteors. #DominosWSL | #IrishBasketball pic.twitter.com/632hmpWDqV

— Basketball Ireland (@BballIrl) October 18, 2025

As for Meteors, they had a trio to carry the weight of their scoring with Hazel Finn hitting 14, including the game-tying shot before the winner, Ava Learn with 14 points and 11 boards and Kylie Horstmeyer who had 15 points, 10 boards on an efficiency of 21 as Trinity moved to 2-1 and begin to prepare for the Dublin derby next week as they take on FloMAX Liffey Celtics.

Speaking of Liffey Celtics, they feature in one of our Sunday double-header fixtures live on basketballireland.tv as they travel to Cork to face UCC Glanmire, who, just like Liffey, are still searching for their first win of the season. That game tips off at 1:30pm in the Mardyke Arena. After that game, we close out the weekend with a top of the table clash between defending champions Killester taking on Gurranabraher Credit Union Brunell. That game is underway at 2pm in the GCU Arena Parochial Hall.