1st November, 2001
Weekly
Sports
DOUGLAS GAA SENIOR
By Pat Harrington
Douglas Reach U16 County Hurling Final.
After a week of very wet weather, the County U16 semi-final
between Ballinhassig and Douglas went ahead in Douglas on Monday
morning. The pitch was very sticky with players finding it
difficult to play the ball. The South East boys settled first
picking off two early points. By mid way through the half Douglas
themselves had settled bringing the scores level. Thomas Cotter
began to dominate the square, Frank Tobin striking well at wing
back while Kenny Barry was very effective at corner forward and
later at centre forward. Douglas were awarded a penalty just on
the stroke of half time which was converted confidently by Mark
Harrington to leave Douglas lead at the break by 1-5 to 3 points.
Douglas, playing with the elements were on top of their game
after the interval but spurned a number of good scoring chances.
In the last ten minutes Douglas got the vital scores to win on a
scoreline of 2-11 to 5 points. Others to impress were Denis
O'Riordan and Paddy White. The County Hurling Final in all
probability will be next Saturday against Newtown Shandrum. It is
vital that the team has plenty of support so check club notice
board for confirmation of venue and times.
County Champions
Congratulations to Douglas U14 Footballers who won the County
Title A Grade at the expense of Blarney. His is the third year in
succession that the trophy has wound its way back to Douglas.
Great stuff lads!!!
Reunion.
In 1957 Douglas won the U-15 Football Championship this
competition wasn't won by Douglas again until 2000. A committee
was formed at the club to organise a function to honour both the
'57 and '00 teams. Almost two hundred people were present and a
special programme with photographs of the teams was available on
the night, which also saw the presentation of plaques to both
teams and their mentors. The committee should be rightly proud of
themselves for a job well done.
All Ireland Success.
Well done to Paddy Barry and Gary Wade who won All Ireland medals
with the Cork Intermediate Hurling Team over the weekend.
DOUGLAS GAA UNDERAGE
By Donie Harris
Douglas retain Under 14 County
Douglas 4-10 V Blarney 4-4
Fresh from their victory over Nemo last week, Douglas took on
Blarney last weekend. Playing direct football we were well in
control for the first half where Philip Holland and Eoin Cotter
were giving the Blarney backs a tough time. Half time score 3-3
to 1-2. The second half started with Blarney taking the game to
Douglas. It was Blarney's turn to play good football. For a game
that Douglas was in control they could have lost in the end.
Blarney scored three goals and two points to leave only a point
in it with only ten minutes to go. But goals from Stephen Moylan
and a fantastic point from Eoin Cotter saw Douglas pull away from
Blarney but not without a fight. Thomas O'Connor in goal did
nothing wrong and Thomas O'Dwyer at corner back had a steady game
but overall it was a good team performance. This is the third
year in a row that Douglas won this competition. Well done!
Under 11 F/L Semi-Final Replay
Douglas 5-6 V St Vincent's 2-8
Two weeks ago these teams met in the first game which ended in a
draw so the replay was fixed for Douglas last weekend and what a
game it turned out to be. Douglas settled early on with a goal.
Vincent's replied with a point and it was like this for the whole
first half. Half time score 2-5 to 1-3. Douglas turned the game
around in the second half by moving Mark Collins in to full
forward and moving Jason Conroy to midfield. This turned out to
be the master move by the mentors as mark Collins scored three
goals in the space of five minutes to steal victory from a
gallant St. Vincent's team. Rob O'Connell, Shane Kingston and
David Kilcummins were players to impress. But over all it was a
great team performance. I will report on how they got on in the
final next week.
Under 13 F/L Semi Final.
Douglas 1-9 V Bishopstown 5-3
In this game last weekend at Douglas, Bishopstown beat the home
team in the semi-final of the football league. Douglas was first
to settle with points from Kevin Murphy and Ian Bermingham.
Douglas were playing well at this stage but then disaster struck
when Bishopstown scored four goals. Douglas found themselves
fighting an uphill battle from there on. To be fair to Douglas,
they never gave up the fight. John Harris scored the only goal
for Douglas with points from Terry O'Connell and Oisín McGrath
had the home team back in the game but, it wasn't to be the
Douglas boys day as Bishopstown hit a further goal in the last
minute to seal victory.
Douglas Under 12's did defeat Bishopstown in their semi-final and
now meet Blackrock in the final. This team also took part in the
St. Nicks football tournament last weekend, more about this next
week.
DOUGLAS RUGBY CLUB
On another beautiful Sunday in October, Douglas had
two games at Junior 1 and Junior 2 level.#
Junior 2 kicked off at 12.00 against Youghal with Douglas putting
up an excellent first half performance with some great work early
on from Leon Rowley ( who was still recovering from his 21st).
Youghal managed to score a try and a penalty with Douglas pulling
back after 30 minutes with a Ray Melamphy penalty. At half time
wise words of wisdom came from stalwart prop half, Sean O'Boyle
and from Bob Costigan, team manager. Strong defending from Cian
O'Brien wasn't enough to prevent Youghal adding another score
while at the other end Gary McPolin almost made it to the line in
the 55 minute and the late second half cameo appearance of Donal
Delaney wasn't enough to lift the Douglas squad leaving the East
Cork side to run out victors.
The Junior 1 game had a later kick off at 3 o' clock against Old
Christians on a fine day with the pitch in excellent condition
thanks to groundsman, Julian Boeg. From the start Douglas looked
very impressive with our boy from the Valleys, John Baker in
flying form. The pack lead by Martin Pinfield were on top of
their game giving Willie Lehane plenty of time to launch a
garryowen into Christians full back who misjudged it allowing our
Kiwi centre, Neil Patterson collect the ball and land the try of
the season so far. Ger Galvin as usual made no mistake with the
conversion.
During the interval, divine inspiration fro Fr. Denis Barry and
Fr. John White proved invaluable. Conor Tolan and Noel Swanton
proved their weight in gold, both in the line outs and the scrum.
In the 70th minute Willie Lehane linked up with Dave Callaghan
putting the icing on the cake for another Douglas victory in the
J1 league. Final score Douglas 17, Old Christians 11.
Training @ Moneygourney on Weds @ 7.45 / Fri @ 7.00.
Next Game : Sunday Nov 4th Junior 1 : Douglas V Muskerry (Moneygourney)
SUNDAYS WELL RUGBY CLUB
Fixtures for next weekend .
Our under 8's / 9's/ 10's and 11's are training this weekend.
Under 12A and 12B's play away to Highfield on Saturday morning,
kick-off 11am.
Under 13 's are training, as are Under 18's. Under 16,s play
Highfield in a League Fixture while Under 14's play away to
Bandon, kick off 11am.
GRANGE VALE AFC
A.U.L. LEAGUE DIV ONE
College Corinthians V Grange Vale 0 - 3
In this the third meeting of these two local teams it was the
Vale who came out on top again.
It is now three wins to the Vale and the format for this game was
no different Corinthians started well with out really threatening
the Vale goal. It took the Vale about ten minutes to get into the
game when John Kenneally elected kick the ball when the header
seemed on. It took Paul Horgan fifteen minutes to get his first
of the season when he ran onto a ball from John Kenneally and
coolly struck the ball past the out coming keeper. The game never
really took off as a spectacle with the Vale always causing the
back four of Corinthians all sorts of problems with out scoring
one the best chances a shot from John Kenneally being tipped onto
the bar by the keeper. The half finished at one nil to the Vale
but they had missed a lot of chances.
The second half started the same as the first finished with the
Vale still pressing for that second goal to wrap things up. When
it came it was from one of the best moves off the game Willie
Kelleher took the ball on a run up the left wing beating four
players and crossing the perfect pass to John Kenneally. Using
all his coolness on the ball he took it down before firing it
high in to the net. It was all over as a contest after that and
it was only a matter of time before they score again. This time
it was Adrian Horgan who ran on to a pass from John Kenneally to
get his first of the season as if not to be out done by his
younger brother Paul. The Vale were not finished there and it was
only the post that stopped Connor McMahon scoring. To his credit
the Corinthians Keeper had a fine game and it was he who kept the
score down.
Best for the Vale were Rob Daly just back from injury his Matt
O'Callaghan and Paul Horgan.
Next week the Vale play Kilumney in the FAI Junior and they will
need to be at there best for this one.
A.U.L. LEAGUE DIV THREE B
Leeside v Grange Vale B 0 - 0
Its been a hard season so far for the Vales second team so far,
as they struggled to get a settled side. On Saturday it was a
different story when they had a full squad to pick from and got
well earned draw at Little Island against Leeside. They are still
finding it hard to score but it seems to be coming together and
with fine displays by John McCarthy and Adrian Cronin in the
middle of the park they wont go far wrong. They have some fine
young players and with Sean McCarthy at the back they will sort
things out and we all hope this is the turning point. The travel
next week away to play Blackstone Rovers and an another result
there will do their confidence the world of good.
CARRIGALINE BADMINTON CLUB
The second An Carrig Sports Star Awards will be held in the
Carrigaline Court Hotel on Friday night 2nd November. Our
nominations for sports player of the year are Laura Thompson and
Tony O'Sullivan who made the Ireland squad this year, and Michael
Sheehan for the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution
to the club over the years. All members are welcome to this
prestigious event and should contact Kah or Ron for details.
The Cork County League is due to commence within the next couple
of weeks. Fixtures will be posted on the notice board a.s.a.p.
The club league will also be starting shortly, date to be
confirmed.
New members are still very welcome to the club. Contact Kah on
021 4362139 or call in on club night - Wed 8-11pm.
NEMO RANGERS
On Saturday afternoon the senior footballers
played Doonbeg in the Munster Club quarterfinal. Nemo began well
but found it difficult to maintain a rhythm and went in at the
break with a two point lead, 0-5 to 0-3. However Doonbeg drew
level three minutes into the second half with two quick points.
Neither team scored for another ten minutes and then Nemo shot
over four unanswered points. Nemo went into a seven point lead
when Dylan Mehigan collected a Gary Murphy pass and sent it to
the roof of the net with his left foot. Doonbeg did their best to
reduce the deficit and get back into the game, but Nemo went on
to win 1-10 to 0-8 and now play An Ghaeltacht in the Munster
semifinal next week. Kevin Cahill, Larry Kavanagh, Martin Cronin,
Gary Murphy and Dylan Mehigan all played well.
On Sunday morning the junior "A" footballers played
Douglas in the league. In the first half Nemo conceded some easy
scores and found themselves a couple of points in arrears at the
break. In the second half Nemo began to catch up on their
opponents and had reduced the lead to just two points entering
the final seven to eight minutes. However Douglas went up the
field and got a goal that ended Nemo's hopes of victory. Nemo
eventually lost by four points but still qualify for the knockout
stages of the league. Neil Creedon, John Harrington and Ian
Murphy all served Nemo well.
The junior "B" footballers defeated Rathpeacon on
Sunday afternoon thanks to good performances from Brian McCarthy,
Tom Morgan, Conor Allen and Damian O'Connor.
Fixture:
Sat 3rd Nov Minor Premier Football Championship V Bishopstown
Ballinlough 2.30pm.
DOUGLAS CAMOGIE CLUB
Douglas Camogie Club Street Leagues.
Camogie indoor street leagues will commence on Monday 5/11/01 at
5.00p.m.for girls born in 1991.
The street leagues for the remainder of the girls will commence
on Wednesday 7/11/01 at 4.00p.m.
For further information please contact.
Anne Kearney (4362918).
Doreen O Mahony (4363803).
As winter comes in the under 11s and 12s will continue with
training indoors on Saturdays under 11s at 3.30 and under 12s at
4.30.
DOUGLAS PITCH & PUTT
Christmas Fayre
M Quirke, M Irwin & T Noonan 34 ½
E Ryan, D Clifford & E Harris - 40
Sunday Turkey Fourball
T Feeney & K O' Callaghan 37 / S O' Leary & D Ahern 43
Monday Turkey Fourball
L O' Brien & D Desmond - +17 / H O' Regan & M Quirke 43
Hole in Ones
S Neiland, D Ahern, K O' Callaghan
Weekly Lotto Results Numbers Drawn: 3,12 & 15
NO WINNER
O' Donovan's Off Licence Lucky Dips
T Herlihy c/o Martin O' Riordan
Linda O' Donovan c/o The Club
John Hanover c/o Jim Hanover
TONIGHT'S JACKPOT: £1,400 (€1,778) VENUE: THE GRANGE
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