VICTORY for Catherine Fleming in the INDO Ladies Inter Counties B singles championship has left her hungry for more success with the Mayo team in Killarney this weekend.
Catherine secured her big win on Friday night after defeating Galway's Diana Zhukova in a nail-biting final in which she had to come from behind to win.
And her focus is now firmly on helping the Mayo team - also made up of Lena Murphy, Geraldine Kenny, Helen Gannon, Helen Kenny, Patricia McGough, Tania McAreavy and Loretta Kenny - do likewise as they will be gunning for glory today.
Mayo are certainly one of the hot favourites to win the team event outright, after they won all five of their group games yesterday.
It means they have already secured a semi-final spot, with Catherine confident they can at least make the final.
"Our goal coming into the weekend was to at least try to make it to the final and I think we can do that," Catherine told Darts in Ireland.
In the singles on Friday night, Catherine began her run to victory with a 3-1 win over Anne Connaughton in the last 32, before posting the same scoreline in further wins over Elizabeth Nolan and Megan Manning.
That put her through to a semi-final with Catherine Glennon, which Fleming won 3-0 to advance to the final against Diana Zhukova.
She fell behind early in the final as Diana started off brightly, before coming back to win the game 3-1 to be crowned the 2025 INDO Inter Counties B ladies champion.
Speaking afterwards, a thrilled Catherine said: "I always go in to competitions like this thinking that I have a chance of winning, but I didn't know many of the other girls here, or very few of them, so I didn't who I was going to come up against.
"It was a case of taking each game at a time and go from there really. I didn't expect to get to the final, if I'm honest, but I got there and thankfully I won it."
Catherine said her previous experience of playing in big tournaments for Ireland helped settled her nerves when playing on stage for the final.
She added: "A good decade back I played on the Irish team, so I'm kind of used to stage games and that type of pressure.
"I knew Diana was going to be a tough opponent in the final and she took an early lead.
"But I kind of like that chase and coming back into games and luckily it worked out this time."
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