Monaleen Juvenile GAA Club

Club Notes

July 25th 2011

Senior Notes
Lotto numbers for last week were 9-13-18-22 with no winner. Lucky dip winners were Kevin Argue Beechfield, David Quinn Fairways, Eugene Harrington Monaleen Road and Padraic O'Brien Caislean Nua. Next weeks lotto will be 15,400 euro.
Junior Hurlers beat Cluaghaun by 4 points in the championship with great performances by Peter Griffin, David Haugh and Daryl Smith. Next ganme for juniors V Kildimo.
Well done to Barry Fitzpatrick,Donal O Sullivan,Ger Collins and Paul Kinnerk who were involved in the great win for Limerick Senior Footballers V Wexford and best of luck v Kerry in the 1/4 finals.Well done to Brian Geary V Dublin in the 1/4 final of the senior hurling championship,hard luck on the day.

Juvenile Notes
Our U14 footballers were understrength for their latest championship match against Mungret on Wednesday but a number of younger players filled in for what was another good victory by 3-6 to 1-4. We have one group match remaining on Aug 3 before the knock-out phase begins on Aug 27. Our team was Sean Fitzpatrick, Shane Donegan, Daniel Enright, Domhnall Dooley, Conor Nelson, Niall O’Shea, Eoghan Carew, Conor Fleming, Daniel Power, Alan Nicholas, Evan O’Connor, Darren Coughlan, Jamie Power, Kevin Gleeson, Harry Gleeson. Sub: Darragh O’Leary.

U13 Football county semi final.
On Monday night last Monaleen travelled to Newcastlewast to play the U13 county semi final. The score after extra time finished Monaleen 1-3, Newcastlewest 0-6. The low score didn`t reflection the excitement of a very tight competitive game. Michael Griffin provided the goal, points from Jamie power and Darren Coughlan and a last minute pointed free by Darren Golden were enough to secure a replay. No word yet on the replay date.

Monaleen u16 footballers remain unbeaten after round 5 in this year’s competition with a hard earned but well deserved draw on a scoreline of 1-9 each, away to our nearest rivals, Newcastlewest. We fielded 4 of the youngest members of our successful All Ireland Feile football winning team of last year, due to some of the older boys being away on holidays,and together with their older teammates, they acquitted themselves exceptionally well,earning us that valuable draw,with just 2 rds. to go,before the knockout stages of the competition.The following were the team members and scorers:Cian O Dwyer(in goal
),Daniel Power,Jack O Neill,Jack Cleary,John Nicholas,Cian Malone,Stuart Hoare,John Sheahan (capt.),Mark Mc.Carthy(0-3),Brian O Donovan(0-1),Ed.Doyle(0-1),Reiss Joyce,Cian O Brien(0-1),Sean Power,Andrew La Touche Cosgrave(1-3),Cian Hession,Oisin Kelly,Leo Morrison,Kevin Gleeson.

Our U9 boys played their last game before their summer break up in Croom lrecently. We travelled with a strong panel of players and this began to show early on in the game. Croom fought a tough battle to resist the pressure from our team with D O Dalaigh,E O Driscoll and P Brennan piling it on from the start. Our boys continued to dominate a good game of football and P O Shea C Carew continued to drive the play forward. With the help of our forwards M Lopez,D Mullowney, H Doyle, R power, R Lyons and C Mulkerin we came off comfortable winners

Our U6 1/2 Hurlers played their 2nd Match and final match of the Season recently when they travelled out to play Mungret. Again there was a great turnout of Players and Supporters on the night. 2 Games of 9 aside were played and both games were fiercely contested with an exhibition of hurling skills on show in both games. The Training and dedication of the Players over the past 9 months is now really showing in the games. Monaleen ended up drawing 1 Match and winning the 2nd Game. Mungret were most welcoming hosts on the night. Team Members on the night: Harvey Hogan, Callum Prendergast, Leon McMahon, Conor McGrath, Darragh Clifford, Mark Nestor, Darragh Langan, Aaron Hough, Michael Sheehan, Ethan O Donovan, Matthew Fitzgerald, Joe Fitzgerald, Niall O Shea, Adam Keating, Will Mulcahy, Luke Hession, Seanie O’Hea, Eoin Yelverton. Thanks to Brian Geary for coming along to our final training session and presenting the Players with their Medals last Friday night.