KILWORTH PITCH AND PUTT CLUB

- Weather plays spoilsport!!! -

U8 BLITZ

Due to terrible weather on Friday night our gents captain Dave Walsh’s weekend was cancelled. It will now go ahead on the weekend July 18, 19 and 20. We hope the weather will have improved by then.

On Sunday morning last we had a popular 3 ball competition with a good turnout of players taking part. The winners were: Peg Doran, Marian Tobin and Patrick Roche on a score of 78 nett.

Fermoy Credit Union 2-Day Competition
This weekend we will have a 2-day competition kindly sponsored by Fermoy Credit Union. Play 1st card Saturday morning 10.30am. Saturday afternoon 2.30pm. If anyone wishes to play Saturday evening just go ahead sign in and pay for card in the clubhouse.

Last card 10.30am Sunday morning. We hope to see a good number of players support this competition.

Fee: Adults first card €3 all subsequent cards €2. Juveniles first card €2 all subsequent cards €1.

MITCHELSTOWN G.A.A. CLUB

- Great weekend for Mitchelstown football -

The weather may have been wet and windy but Mitchelstown football was a ray of sun shine last weekend with both the junior and premier minor footballers advancing in there respective championships, the junior team defeating Churchtown and the minors sweeping past Beara.

Junior ‘A’ Football.
Mitchelstown 0-9 Churchtown 1-2.
Mitchelstown junior footballers advanced to the semi-final of the Fermoy Credit Union sponsored North Cork junior ‘A’ football championship on the above scoreline at a wet and windy but well prepared pitch at Doneraile on Friday evening last.

Mitchelstown played with the aid of the wind and rain in the opening half and found themselves in arrears 1-2 to 01 after twenty minutes. S Fox, P Magee and Jamie Finn then began to dominate the half back line keeping Churchtown scoreless not only for the remaining of the first half but the entire second half as well.

Points from D Moher, A O’Brien and C Courtney saw the half time score 1-2 to 04 in favour of Churchtown. On the resumption two frees from the impressive C Courtney followed by the score of the match which involved Finn and Magee releasing D Dineen to leave the score 0-7 to 1-2.

Churchtown aided by the elements began to make inroads into the Mitchelstown half but a mixture of poor shooting and excellent defending saw them fail to raise a score.

An excellent 45 against the wind from Courtney followed by an injury time point from D Moher saw Town advance to the semi-final where they will renew rivalry with neighbours Glanworth Team P Horgan, J Finn, D Dineen, D Lynch, K O’Gorman, S Fox, P Magee, C Courtney (0-4), M Maher, M O’Rourke, L O’Flynn, S Beston, A O’Brien (0-2), C Griffin, D Moher (0-2). Subs used E Walsh for Ml O’Rourke, M Allen for A O’Brien, P Donegan for D Moher (injured).

Premier Minor Football Early Blitz Buries Beara Blackthorns (Mitchelstown) 5-12 Beara 0-7. Three goals in the opening five minutes from Kieran Coleman, Vincent O’Donoghue and Shane Beston, who also lined out with the junior team the previous night, with points in between from Beston and Greg Carroll gave Mitchelstown a dream start to this premier Cork county minor football championship, played in winter conditions at Kilmichael on Sat evening last, which saw them leading 3-2 to no score after ten minutes From then.

Beara seemed to realise that this game had started and followed up with five unanswered points which left the halftime score 3-2 to 0-5 with all to play for.

The second half saw the Blackthorn defence coming out on top with some great work from Kieran Duggan, Jack Allen, the Norris brothers David and Pa, Seamus Condon and Pa Molloy. On the restart, Shane Beston raised another green flag followed by points from the impressive Kieran Coleman.

Further points from Seamus Condon, Micheal O’Doherty and Ken Carroll (who was on the Cork U16 squad earlier in the day) and a long range goal from Pa Magee (who also played with the junior team the previous night) ensured Blackthorns name would be in the hat for the next round.

A job well done and compliments to O McGrath, J Cleary and G Coleman whose work behind the scenes organising training and challenge matches nearly always goes unnoticed. A big thank you to the few supporters who made the journey and more is the pity more did not travel as this team are playing in the highest competition in Cork county.

These lads have three important league matches coming up at home against St Michaels and Ballincollig and away to Carrigaline and we ask you for your support Team C O’Donoghue, J Allen, P Norris, D Norris, K Duggan, P Molloy, S Condon (0-1),P Magee (1-0), F Herlihy, G Carroll, K Carroll (0-1), S Beston (2-5), M O’Doherty (0-1), V O’Donoghue (1-0), K Coleman (1-4). Subs J Sheehan for M O’Doherty, J Fox for J Allen, D Lambe for S Beston, D O’Sullivan for K Coleman, J Allen for Magee (inj).

Div 3 Football: The Div 3 football team have qualified for the Cavanaghs of Fermoy sponsored league and this game is expected to take place in the next few weeks. Well done.

We cannot let these notes pass without saying well done to the Cork senior footballers on winning the Munster senior football championship last Sunday, also to Brian Burke who was a selector with the Tipperary minor footballers who drew with Kerry, Brian played with the Tipperary minors in 1983 in Pairc Ui Chaoimh losing out to Cork, with the now famous thunder and lighting goal from Tadgh Murphy against Kerry in the senior final, saw Cork victorious. Brian won a Munster minor medal the following year.

Summer Camp: The summer camp is now well under way and everyone is welcome to call out between 10am and 2pm up to Friday. Best wishes to the Ballygiblin hurlers who cross camans with Churchtown (again) on this Friday evening in Kildorrery with a place in the North Cork junior hurling semi final at stake.

Votes Of Sympathy: We extend our sympathy to the Lonergan family Derrylahan on the death of Dave.ase.

FERMOY MIXED TAG RUGBY

- An exciting finish -

The group stages of Fermoy tag rugby tournament came to an exciting finish last Thursday. Topping the tables in division A: were Horgan’s in group 1 and Tom’s Tavern Tigers in group 2.

The Gardai and the Mud Dogs topped the tables in division B, and in division C The Forge and PCR finished top of their groups. Quarter finals for division B and division C will start Thursday, 10th July.

Division A will have two more weeks of group matches and on the final night the two teams at the top of the table will play a cup final. The third and fourth place teams will play a plate final and the fifth and sixth place teams will play a bowl final.

We would remind teams that for insurance reasons captains need to fill out team sheets and hand them to the referees before matches. Team sheets are available from the clubhouse before matches.

Refreshments will be served after all the matches in The Forge Bar and all teams and supporters are invited to come along. If any team would like to have fixtures and results e-mailed to them please send your e-mail address to tracyconran@yahoo.ie.

Fixtures: 10th July 7pm - Lab Rats v Dairygold; Horgan’s v Auntie Mae’s; The Forge v The Case; Carrig Court and Fermoy Leisure Centre v Mud Dogs. 7.50pm - Dan Seaman Motors v Healy Crowley; Victor Collins v Grassbusters; GIC Warriors v PCR This. 8.40pm - Men with Muscles v Charlie Mac’s; Mico’s Hammers v Tom Tavern Tigers; Gardai v Tom’s Two; FBA v Colaiste an Chroaibhin.

Results: Division A Group 1 - Horgan’s 10 Kerin’s 0, Mico’s Hammers 21 Men with Muscles 7. Group 2 - Tom’s Tavern Tigers 26 Charlie Mac’s 14, Auntie Mae’s 10 TJ’s 0.

Division B Group 1 - FBA Labs 8 Gardai 9, Carrig Court and Fermoy Leisure Centre 9 Victor Collins 16. Group 2 - Tom’s Two 2 Colaiste an Chraoibhin 17, Grassbusters 15 Mud Dogs 20 Division C Group 1 - The Forge 9 Dan Seaman Motors 4, The Lab Rats 12 GIC Warriors 7. Group 2 - Tom Boland 3 Dairygold 7, PCR This 15 Healey Crowley 4.

KILWORTH TROUT ANGLERS

- 23 anglers take part in the Hogan Cup -

The annual competition for the Peter Hogan Cup organised by Kilworth Trout Anglers on the river Funcheon, was held on June 19 last.

The river was not ideal for fishing after rain on the previous days, nevertheless 23 anglers from many different clubs fished in this open competition. After a hard nights fishing, the winner was Ger O’Connor of the Kildorrery Trout Angling Club and at the weigh-in at John Cotter’s pub in Kilworth, Sheila Hogan presented Ger with the Peter Hogan Cup.

The following are the complete results: 1st Ger O’Connor; 2nd Tommy Whelan; 3rd Liam Martin, 4th Eamon Neligan, 5th JJ O’Sullivan, 6th Jerry Keating; 7th Tony O’Sullivan; 8th Pat McCarthy, 9th Tommy Byrnes. Tommy Whelan won the prize for the heaviest trout.

The Kilworth club would like to thank the following sponsors: Kilworth Celtic, Douglas Valley Hatchery, Titelines, Cappoquin, John Condon, Paul Strasman, Tony O’Flynn, Main Street, Kilworth, M Hanley Motors, Kilworth and Bernie Stack, Fermoy.

A very big thank you to John Cotter, who provided the refreshments and also to all the landowners for their ongoing co-operation.

 

 

BRIDE ROVERS JUVENILE G.A.A. CLUB

- U8s win Ballygiblin blitz -

Our last juvenile meeting was held in the clubrooms on July 3rd last with officers and several members in attendance.

Billy Finnegan, club chairman, welcomed everyone present and opened the meeting. The minutes of the previous meeting of 19th June, 2008 were read and approved.

U8s Winners of Ballygiblin Blitz On Saturday, 28th June our U8 boys travelled to Ballygiblin for the annual hurling Blitz sponsored by Horgan’s Delicatessen Supplies. 21 boys travelled, with 3 matches and 12 players per team, everyone got a game at some stage.

Our first match was against an understrength Doneraile team – with only 7 players arriving from Doneraile, we matched them in numbers but out played them from the start.

Scores early from Conleth Ryan and Eoin Roche gave us a good lead after 5 minutes, and we went in at half time 4 points up. In the second half, with some of our younger players now on the pitch and holding their own well we gained a further 3 point lead – Doneraile scraped one in at the last minute to finish the game 7 – 1 in favour of Bride Rovers.

Our second game was against the host team and started within minutes of the Doneraile game. Ballygiblin were the first to score, but when Eoin Roche doubled on a high ball to hit the corner of the net we were back in the running.

We were all square at half time, and with the long puck outs from the Ballygiblin keeper our defenders John O’Sullivan, Ciaran Nugent, Patrick O’Flynn and Kieran Kearney had their work cut out for them, but they rose to the occasion with very little getting past them. We finished the game with a victory winning 4 points to 1 in the end.

We were into the final, but first we got to sample the refreshments provide by the Ballygiblin club and their sponsors – thanks to all for the fine spread.

Our opposition for the last match of the day were Ballyhea, who earlier had eliminated Kildorrery and Doneraile from the contest. This was a tough game, with great skill being shown from both teams. We were slow to start with Ballyhea getting the first score, but pulled it back to all square for half time.

After a great pep talk from Donal Ryan at half time, the boys went out with only one thing on their minds – winning the final for Rovers. The Roche brothers, the Hogan brothers, Griffin, Craig, Conor, John, Ciaran, Patrick, Kieran, Jack, Conleth and Shaun Knox in goal all raised their game for the last 10 minutes and with the support from the rest of the panel and families on the sideline we came away with a 4 point to 1 victory.

Medals were presented to all players by Timmy McCarthy. Our thanks to the parents who travelled on the morning, Padraig Clancy of Ballygiblin for inviting us, our hosts for providing great facilities on the day, the referees, and to Timmy for the presentation and words of encouragement to the young players.

The team that travelled on the day: Brian and Eoin Roche, Ben and Cian Hogan, Conleth Ryan, John O’Sullivan, Griffin O’Sullivan, Ciaran Nugent, Conor Barry, Kieran Kearney, Shaun Knox, Peter O’Leary, James Buckley, Patrick O’Flynn, Craig O’Callaghan, Seamus Aherne, Jack Ryan, Cathal Feeney, Joe Twomey, Ruairi O’Sullivan, Tomas Macak.

Under 14 Cork County Hurling Championship Our under 14 team (recent East Cork winners) met with the Carbery Rangers in the Bride Rovers main pitch on Saturday, 28th June last. Our boys put in a gallant display on the day but despite their best efforts they were unable to overcome the stronger Carbery side.

The juvenile club would like to thank all those who provided cakes, sandwiches etc. and to those who served teas and minerals to our visitors on the day. Many of these Carbery supporters travelled a long distance and appreciated a cup of tea before making the return journey.

Re East Cork Board - a report on the last East Cork Board meeting was given to the meeting and any issues arising were discussed.

Cul Camp 2008. This year’s cul camp will run on July 21-25th 2008, 1pm to 4pm each day. Our trainers for this year are Colm O’Keeffe, Pa O’Driscoll and Kieran Lane. The juvenile club would like to thank Thomas Mannix who helped us to collect the kits and gear etc. recently.

Congratulations. Well done to the junior ‘A’ team on their recent win over St Itas. Congratulations to Jason Mannix who recently won county and Munster medals with the St. Colman’s College team. Jason is following in the footsteps of fellow Bride Rovers players Brian Murphy and Jerome O’Driscoll. Well done Jason on a wonderful achievement.

Best wishes. To Adrian Buckley and Stephen O’Leary who are currently part of the Imokilly panel. Well done lads for doing so well. Best wishes to all our juvenile players as they take to the pitch in the next few weeks and well done to all those who have represented our club so well, at all ages, in recent weeks.

Votes of Condolence. The juvenile club would like to offer their condolences to the Scanlon, Arnold and Twomey families on their recent bereavements.

Next Meeting. Our next meeting will be held in the clubrooms on Thursday 17/07/2008 at 9pm. All welcome to attend.

 

KILWORTH TENNIS CLUB

- Juvenile tennis week coming soon -

Juvenile tennis week will run from August 11th–15th inclusive from 2-6pm. One hour’s coaching each day for the week. Derek Smith who has held 2 successful sessions in Kilworth earlier in the year will be in charge.

Cost €30 per member and €35 per non member. For further details contact Caitriona 087-4191510 or Bill 086-8123078.

American doubles tournament for 11 and over juvenile players will be held July 16th at 2 pm. We hope to see a big turnout on the day.

Summer Cup. Our grade 5 mixed team of Majella Blackburn, Mary Blackburn, Emmett Coffey and Matt Bermingham advanced to the next round of this competition when they beat a team from Causeway Tennis Club, Dungarvan. They play Sunday’s Well in the next round. South Tipp League Our four ladies of Claire O’Flynn, Ursula Gubbins, Rebecca Clarke and Ailish Murphy are progressing well in the South Tipp League.

They won their first game away to Castleview on a convincing score of 36-10 last Tuesday and they take to the court again this week against Cappawhite at home. Their next outing then will be their home game against Castleview on Wednesday evening the 23rd July, 2008.

Tennis Heroes. Our new doubles tournament is due to start up again shortly so all those interested should sign up their names on the notice board.

Juvenile Coaching. Juvenile coaching continues this weekend on Sunday mornings with Bill and Caitriona.

Club Night. Remember Thursday night is club night and all are welcome to attend. Check our website www.kilworthtennis.com