18th November, 1999
Weekly
Sports
DOUGLAS HALL AFC
There has been significant activity during the
last two weeks. Virtually all club teams have seen action, with
varying results.
The Seniors' form continues to be inconsistent - the side has
taken the lead in both of their recent fixtures, but have been
unable to maintain their lead. They went ahead last Sunday
against Tralee Dynamoes, but were hauled back for a 2-2 draw. The
scorers were Paul Quirke and Kieran Olliffe, in a reshuffled
team, which well merited their draw. Previously, Carrigaline Utd.
emerged 3-2 winners, despite our goals from Aidan Cotter and
Brian McSweeney.
The MSL Juniors have taken on the mantle of high scorers in the
club, with a thumping 8-0 win over Wembley, followed by a narrow
4-3 loss against Cobh Wanderers. The scorers in this second match
were Mark Barriscale, Terry Cussen and Ronan Guilfoyle. In the
Wembley match, Barry O'Shea struck a hat-trick, Michael O'Connor
and Brian Foley had 2 each, with the final goal from Dave Cussen.
The AUL Juniors went out of the Corinthians Cup, following a 2-0
reverse against Brooklodge Utd. This followed their 3-2 league
win over Killowen. In this match the goals were from Brendan
Crown, Joe and Willie Murphy. This league success means that they
remain well in contention in the league.
The Over 35's lost their unbeaten record, when Tramore Athletic
proved too strong, with a 2-0 win. However, the 'Hall failed to
capitalise on second half opportunities to at least secure a
draw. The Youths travelled to Ballincollig on Sunday, and
sparkled in a 7-2 win.
The Under 15's maintained their smashing league record, with a
2-0 win over Richmond. This side are really on fire in the
league, and goals from Donal Moynihan and Darren O'Connor secured
this latest success. Their league form has been terrific and they
now have 7 wins out of 7 in the league.
The Under 14's, following recent good form were optimistic
travelling to play Cobh Ramblers. However, Ramblers, who have
been a bogey team for out 14's in recent years, again proved too
strong. The final result, 3-0, did our lads no favours, who
created chances themselves, but failed to get on the scoresheet.
The best of luck to this team in their National Cup outing next
Sunday.
Fixtures:
Saturday 20th
Under 14 National Cup: Away v. Nufarm Ath, 2:30
Sunday 21th
Senior League: Home v. Mayfield Utd, 2:30
AUL Junior AOH Cup: Away v. Togher Rovers, 10:45
Youths League: Home v. Wilton, 2:30
Under 14 National Cup: Away v. Nufarm Ath, 2:30
Thursday 25th
Senior League: Away v. UCC 7:30
DOUGLAS GAA
Douglas GAA Under Age Section
Douglas clinched their place in the U14 A grade league final by
virtue of a victory over Mayfield in the semi-final. Douglas
played well in the opening quarter, Ray Keating opened the
scoring from a well taken free, Kenny Barry added a goal from a
good ground strike. Mayfield rallied and scored two points - but
a very solid half line of Frank Tobin, Thomas Cotter and Seamus
Crowley prevented the northsiders from getting any further scores
before the interval. The half time score was 1-4 to 0-2, in
favour of Douglas.
James Moylan made some telling runs after the break which results
in well taken points. Mayfield improved and had the Douglas goal
under pressure, but again the Douglas full and half back lines
were excellent. A second goal from Kenny Barry sealed victory for
Douglas.
Ballincollig defeated U13 Douglas in the opening round of the
football championship. The mid-Cork boys led 1-1 to 0-1 at the
break. In the opening seven minutes after half time Ballincollig
scored 1-3 without reply. Douglas upped their performance - 1-1
from Stephen Bermingham in the space of two minutes reduced the
deficit. The next eleven minutes were scoreless. Kevin Mulcahy
added a goal and a point for Douglas, but Ballincollig held out
under immense pressure to win by the narrowest of margins, 2-4 to
2-3.
Fixtures:
Football League semi-final -
20/11/99 - U14 Douglas v Ballinora (a) 3pm
Football Championship final A grade -
U15 Douglas v Bishopstown (h) 3pm
Hurling U14 A grade League Final
Douglas v Glen Rovers at Redmonds Pitch @ 1.30pm.
CARRIGALINE BADMINTON CLUB
Last week was very busy for the club with almost all teams
playing in the Cork County League.
The Division 1 mixed team was delighted to win away against a
very strong Carrigtwohill team. The 4-3 result came from wins in
the three mixed games and excellent play by Shane Thompson
against Peter Marks to win the men's singles 15-6, 10-15, 17-15.
The Division 1 team: Shane Thompson, David Thompson, Declan
Brown, Mairead Ni Bheara, Karen Cinnamond and Betty Thompson.
The Division 2 mixed team had a great 6-1 win at home against
Ballinora but lost 5-2 away to Castlemagner later in the week.
The Division 2 team: Adrian Furey, Alan Burrows, Tony Brooks,
Billy Cantwell, Michelle Hayes, Mairead Ni Bheara, Barbara
Jeffrey and Jo Fitzgerald.
The Division 2/3 Men's team - Ron Thompson, Joe O'Sullivan, Joe
Angelini and Billy Cantwell - lost 4-0 at home to a very strong
Kinsale team.
What a disappointment for the Division 4 Ladies team - Idoia
Murphy, Susan O'Reilly, Bernie Hayes and Phil Mc Carthy - who
lost at home to Mitchelstown by 2 aces. However, the Division 6
ladies team - Maggie Morris, Angela Kelly, Heather Hegarty and
Ann Moran - took revenge by winning away to Mitchelstown by 11
aces.
11 year old Laura Thompson did the club proud yet again at the
Ulster Open in Lisburn at the weekend. In the U13 category she
won both the singles and the mixed titles, partnered in the mixed
by Scott Evans from Dublin. Congratulations on another fine
performance.
New members are still very welcome to the club. Contact Ron on
021 372705 or call in on club night - Wed 8-11pm.
Tip of the week:
Borrow the small ones skipping rope and get skipping for 10/15
minutes every day. This increases stamina and keeps you on your
toes, which is where you want to be during a game. Try it!
DOUGLAS PITCH & PUTT
Sat 13th - Christmas Fayre
Winners: Pamela Lombardi, Tony Noonan and William Mc Carthy - 39
& 2/3
Sun 14th - Turkey f/ball
Winners: 1st Nett: Tony Duggan and
Donal Murphy - 14up
1st Gross: Robert O' Donoghue an
Michael Quirke - 42
Hole in One's: Peter Gregson, Michael Quirke, Denis Cashman and
John Brohan
Weekly Lotto Draw
No's Drawn - 4,16,23 - No Winner
CAB Sponsored Winners
K. Desmond c/o Dan Desmond
David Gregson c/o club
Luke Lombardi c/o Pamela Lombardi
Next Week £1,400 @ The South County
Committee 1999/2000
Chairperson - Susan Gregson, President - Phil O' Brien, Captain -
Denis Cashman, Secretary - Tony Noonan, Treasurer - Brian Downey,
Registrar/Comp. Secretary - Jim Elley, Juv. Officer - Liam
Quirke, PRO - David Gregson, Lady Captain - Pamela Lombardi,
Jamie Fahy, Norma Kelleher
Web site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~douglaspitchandputt/index.htm
GRANGE VALE AFC
WE travelled to Passage on Saturday and defeated
them by 2 goals to 1. No score until the 30 mins, we were awarded
a penalty as one of their backs handled in the box. Jason Martin
took the spot kick and put us one goal up. Early in the second
half Passage equalised. In the 75 min spot we got a chance on the
left, Liam Murphy volleyed home to put us 2 goals to 1 up. We
pressed them hard in the last 10 minutes looking for that third
goal, but the Passage goalkeeper denied us. He made some great
saves, only for him we qould have doubled our score. Best for us
were John Kenneally, Paul Horgan and Robbie Bermingham.
The club would like to extend their deepest sympathy to the
Murphy family on their recent bereavement.
TREBLE SUCCESS FOR NEPTUNE
It turned out to be a very successful weekend
for Neptune Basketball Club, having won their two ESB SuperLeague
games, the division one side also had a derby victory over Blue
Demons on Saturday. Now both the SuperLeague team and the
Division One team are on top of their respective leagues.
At the live television game from Neptune Stadium on Friday night,
Neptune had a hard fought victory over Kerry Spring Killarney;
this was followed on Saturday night with a similar tough game
against Burgerking Limerick.
The Division side had an equally tough game against local rivals
Blue Demons. Trailing by eight points at the half time break,
Neptune dug deep and good performances by Alan Kelly and Ronan O’Sullivan
gave the home team the lead and Neptune survived the final
onslaught form Demons to win by seven.
ESB SuperLeague: Neptune 70 Kerry Spring Killarney 60
Neptune 81 Burgerking Limerick 78
ESB Division One: Neptune 57 Blue Demons 50
DOUGLAS RUGBY
Sunday saw Douglas having UCC for breakfast and
Fermoy for lunch. It was a good day for results but not for
sparkling rugby. The Fouglas second team easily beat UCC in a
friendly with scores from Diarmuid Quinn , Derry McCarthy,and Ian
Yaughan to name but a few. Douglas started well scoring
early in the first half but once again took the foot off the gas
,too many mistakes left Douglas feeling they will have to do a
lot better to beat Clonakilty next weekend in the first round of
the cup .
Douglas had a late set back in the game when they lost one of
their players. Donal Delany, with five players on his outside
chose to cut back inside to try and score , he obviously didn't
see the smallest player on the UCC side in front of him and was
swallowed whole. He hasn't been seen since. The final score was
Douglas 35 UCC 7.
The Douglas first team beat Fermoy in the league by 28 points to
0. Once again it wasn't the very best of performances but it was
good enough to earn Douglas two valuable points. Willie Lehane,
John Coughlan, Noel Swanton and Pete Seymor all scored tries and
Ger Glavin kicked two penalties and converted one try . Several
personal changes due to injuries may have left douglas a little
ragged but they were never in any danger of losing the game let
alone conceding scores. It was just one of those days where they
scored 28 points,and you felt they should have scored 40.
The Douglas rugby club still need the support of the local
people. We had a good turn out on Sunday but would love more next
Sunday .Douglas play Clonakilty in the cup at 2.30pm. Follow the
signs on Maryborough Hill.
FAO SMUDGE the 22m line is directly behind you when you face the
dead ball line .(its a small detail but it helps when you know it
). New players: 087 2536820.
COLLEGE CORINTHIANS
Following the adventures of the previous week the Corinthians
Senior Team were once again asked to travel to Dublin for a
second replay of their third round Immediate Cup Clash with
current Leinster Senior League Leaders TEK Utd. It looked a
daunting task on paper but Corinthians responded to the challenge
and came home with a magnificent 2-0 victory, goals by Dave
Morley and Willie O'Keeffe coupled with a magnificent goal
keeping performance by Eric Barrett provided decisive. All credit
to Manager, Fergus McDaid and his players on a fabulous result,
their reward is a home draw in the fourth round against Mullingar
Town next Sunday afternoon, kick off 2.30pm.
It was a very successful weekend for the Club's Underage Section
with four wins and a draw from the five games played. Funnily
enough the draw was earned by our Under 11 second string Douglas
Corinthians, who up to the weekend were the only team in the Club
with a 100% record. They travelled to Ballyphehane Park last
Sunday for a League clash with Casement Celtic and having
completely dominated the match they were fortunate in the end to
come away with a share of the spoils. In a rare attack Casement
snatched the lead with five minutes to go but John O'Brien proved
the saviour smashing home a free kick with time almost up. David
Meyler, Daniel Horgan, Colin Hammond and Theo Cullinane did well
for Corinthians.
The Corinthians Under 13 side progressed to the third round of
the National Cup following a well deserved 3-1 victory over Cobh
Ramblers. Managers, Aidan Logan and Kieran Granger are well
pleased with the progress of their new look squad and on Saturday
three of those new signings, David Dorgan, Jonathon Galvin and
Roy Daly were on the scoresheet, while David Costelloe, David
Fitzgerald and Mark O'Donovan played well.
The performance of the weekend came from our Under 17's squad who
are now only one of four Cork teams left in the FAI National
Under 17 Cup, thanks to an excellent 2-0 away win in Bandon last
Saturday. Tony Hegarty scored the vital goals whilst Aidan
O'Mahony, Tadhg O'Connell and Brian Ring played well.
Our Under 11 Premier Division side travelled to Ballyvolane to
take on unbeaten Leeds and came away with an excellent 1-0
victory. Stephen White, Brian Wade, Kevin O'Mahony and Brian
Kavanagh were the pick of the Corinthians side. Our Under 15's
were involved in a nine goal thriller against Nufarm scraping
home on a 5-4 scoreline, Kevin Walsh (3), Donal Coughlan and Joe
O'Donovan scored Corinthians goals while Dave O'Connor and Derek
McClafferty played well.
Parents Information Night: The Schoolboy Section's Information
Night for parents was postponed last Monday night, November 15th
and will now take place in the Rochestown Park Hotel next Monday
Nov. 22nd with a start time of 8.30 p.m.
Fixtures
Saturday 20th November: Under 12 away to Maymount Celtic kick off
2.30 p.m.
AUL 1 at home to Everton kick off 2.30 p.m. / FAI Junior Cup at
home to Park Utd. kick off 2.30 p.m.
Sunday 21st November: Under 12 at home to Bandon kick off 11.00
a.m. / Under 14 away to Ballincollig kick off 2.30 p.m.
FAI Immediate Cup at home to Mullingar Town kick off 2.30 p.m. /
FAI Junior Cup away to Greenmount kick off 10.45 a.m.
