Extended Club Notes May 20th
Latest Fixtures and results for all Adult teams can be found on the following webpage - http://www.clontarfgaa.com/Matches/CompleteAdultFix_Res2008/tabid/1329/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Senior – Home league game on Wed 21st V Ballinteer SJ.
Junior Football – A busy week ahead as Junior A and B teams play Round 4 of the league and both hope to remain unbeaten. C’s have their Championship replay.
Junior A’s – Next league game is away to Ballyfermot on Tue 20th at 7:30pm.
Junior B’s continued on winning ways ( 9 in a row) with a fine Cup win at home over St. Brigids (3-7,3-2). Richie Fox and Fergus Clifford were outstanding. Next league games is fixed for pitch 35 on Thur 22nd at 7:30pm.
Training Tue 6:30 (meet at pitch 35) ahead of important games this week
Junior C’s Championship replay against Parnells is fixed for pitch 34 on Thur May 22nd at 8pm.
Adult Hurling – Lost in midweek league action V Naomh Fionnbarra (2-12,2-8). On Sunday Hurlers had a great Championship win over Crumlin (3-14,0-11). Best for Clontarf were Ger Devine, Roe Kenny, John Cantwell, Damien Carew, Dan Fanning and a super goal from Eoin O’Connor just back from injury.
Minors – Footballers had a great win over Naomh Fionnbarra in their last league game. Excellent all round team performance.
Under 16 – hurlers to St. Judes B (1-6,0-10)
Under 15 – Footballers christened pitch 34 on Wed with a great league win over St. Vincents (3-8,1-7). This was a tremendous team performance in which the whole team played well and worked tirelessly. Well done to all involved.
Scorers: Jack McCaffrey 1-3, Andrew Cooke 1-3, Brian Forde 1-0, Fergal Lawless 0-1, Robert Forrest 0-1
Under 14 – A team had a very competitive challenge match away to Ballymun Kickhams on Sat loosing by a single point. Some good passages of play saw Cluain Tarbh launching attacks from the half back line with good hand passing movements into the full forward line and scoring positions. Excellent performance & work rate from Eamonn Heneghan resulted in Cluain Tarbh dominating much of the midfield play, Good performances from Pearse Adams & Robert Diffley in defence, Robert Reynolds at centre half back and Ronan McDyer up front. A fine 2nd half performance from Niall Terry in the half forwards and delivering two tremendous blocks, an aspect of our game sadly missing in recent times. Well done lads.
Under 13 – Hurlers Played away against Oliver Plunkets in Phoenix Park. The team lost 1-1 to 3-5. All the damage was done in the first half by a strong Plunketts midfield who scored 2-5 to a point from Clontarf. In the second half Clontarf defence was determined and held Plunkets to a single score. Special mention to James Doyle, Paddy Foley and Sean Brodie and very especially Daniel Patton in goals who had another excellent game saving many goal bound shots.
Under 12 – Hurling weekend.
Under 11 – Great win by the A team over Lucan, following divine intervention by mentor Damien O’Higgins at half time and a superb performances from Luke, Barry, Foxy and Johnny. B team tried hard but went down to the same opposition.
Under 10 – Hurlers won, lost and drew 3 games away to St. Vincents. With the exception of
PJ Ryan’s team, Clontarf were off their best. Good performances from Paddy Smith, Declan Adamson, Diarmuid Brodie and Nathan Doran
Under 9 – Hurling weekend
Clontarf 1 Fingallians 9
A spirited performance from Clontarf but we lacked the finishing touch.........this time. The teams were a lot closer than the score suggests. A special mention for Ciaran McKeon and Fionn Delaney for being so determined and never giving up. Michael Cunningham was our most improved player.
Clontarf 3 Fingallians 8
Niall McCaffrey and Brian Dufficy deserve a mention for their strong performance and Darragh Vickers was our most improved player.
Ladies Football – Homepages for all Ladies and Girls teams are now setup and include season fixtures, click here - http://www.clontarfgaa.com/Teams/Ladies/tabid/1115/language/en-GB/Default.aspx
Ladies Intermediate – Intermediates lost in round robin Championship to a strong Foxrock/Cabinteely side, despite playing quite well. Next match is Man O’War on pitch 34 on Wed.
Ladies Junior – Ladies Junior team kicked off their championship programme with an easy win over Erin go Breagh on the newly re-opened pitch 35 in St. Annes. A possible club record was establised by Caroline Kenny who playing at corner forward registered a hat trick of goals in the first five minutes of the second half. Next week sees the girls travel to Ballyboughal.
U16 Girls. – had a great win over St. Maurs (5-9,4-5). Best for Clontarf Aoife Lawlor, Louise Doyle and Shauna Casey.
U14 Girls – No info
U13 Girls – Another fine win, this time over Clanna Gael Fontenoy. Again a great team effort. Thanks to Grace Carroll from Under 12’s
U12 Girls – No info
U11 Girls – were defeated by St. Annes in the league
U10 Girls – No info
Camogie – No info
New Arrival – Congratulations to Senior Footballer Darren (Lambo) and his wife Fiona on the birth of baby Mia.
Forecast Competition – All 290 entries are now available online (see below). After just 2 weeks of Championship action, only 7% of participants have the maximum 20 points.
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http://clontarfgaa.com/Social/GAAForecastCompetition2008/tabid/1346/language/en-US/Default.aspx