Our Junior Men’s side continued
in dominant form and have reached the Junior Championship semi final after a
comprehensive win over Coolaney Mullinabreena last weekend. The guys posted an impressive 7-11 in the
process and have rarely disappointed throughout the season. Too early to speak of a league and
Championship double, as a few testing hurdles to go yet. Well done to the management at blending youth
and experience through the squad and reestablishing the second team in the club
so effectively, and good luck for the remainder of the Championship. The clubs will meet again this weekend in
the quarter final of the Senior Championship in what promises to be a very
testing match with both teams having high ambitions to progress further. The tie is scheduled for Connolly Park
Collooney on Sunday with a 4.30pm throw in.
All support for the team will be appreciated.
The concluding stages of Championships
are coming at every level and our Minor boys had a great win away against
Geevagh/St Michaels on Friday evening to progress to the County Semi
Finals. In a fast moving game, both
sides played attacking football resulting in a high scoring match which our
lads took on a scoreline of 6-16 to 3-13.
We had a good lead at half time and in fairness to our opposition they
came out for the second half with positive intent, so our lads could not afford
to relax. Good performances all round,
which we can always count on from this dedicated group, and our semi-final is
expected to be a home tie against Tubbercurry Cloonacool. This Monday (16th) our U14 boys
have their their Championship semi-final against Drumcliffe Rosses Point which
is a home tie with a 6.15pm throw-in.
On the ladies side of the Club,
the Minor girls have the A Championship final against Tourlestrane on Friday
night with the final being scheduled for Cloonacool. Tourlestrane have been a dominant force at
this age group, with our girls being an emerging force in the past couple of
seasons. The meeting of the 2 sides in
the group stages resulted in favour of Tourlestrane. Although some critical players were missing
for Marys, it shows the height of the task ahead on Friday. Our girls are at the top of their game and
having a full panel available to Shane will give the options to push our
advantage. Good luck to everyone and
please support our girls. The U16 girls
have a further week to await the same opposition in their Championship final,
but are playing the best football of their season to date and are more than
ready for the task ahead. The U14 girls
played great football to win their Championship Shield semi final against Curry
on a scoreline of 3-12 to 1-06, and progress to play Shamrock Gaels in the
final. There was not much between the
sides when they met earlier in the Summer and the final promises to be a tight
competitive match.
At the younger age groups, again
Saturday morning coaching has seen strong numbers and thanks to all involved
for the level of coaching our members are receiving. In addition, the numerous blitzes are giving
everyone a taste of football in a match day environment and these are always
highly entertaining for everyone. The
latest of these included the U8 girls against St Farnons and the U9 boys
playing Dromahaire and reports back say tremendous football skills were on
display. Thanks also to the organizers
of the bus to the Ladies final, brilliant day out for everyone and the lucky
girls had an ideal view of the match unaffected by the wet conditions
A reminder to all about the
importance of the 400 Club draw to raise funds to keep and further develop our
playing facilities to the highest standard.
Thanks to those who have participated already and please support the
draw by returning entries via any Committee member.