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sport@eastcorkjournal.ie East Cork Bride Rovers GAA Notes


Semi Final. Our Junior C Hurling


Minor Hurlers in First County Championship Final Since 2013. There is an old saying


‘Even Homer nods’ which basically means even the best


person sometimes


makes a mistake due to a momentary lack of alertness or attention. Now this scribe wouldn’t claim to be the ‘best’ at writing GAA Club notes - far from it. Some- times however in trawling back through distant history the more recent past can be overlooked. So it was last week when previewing our forthcoming Minor Coun- ty Hurling Championship Final against either Water- grasshill or Kilshannig (we now know it’s Kilshannig) I forgot all about our most recent County win at Mi- nor grade which of course was in 2013. We defeated Grenagh, Kinsale, Cobh, Tracton and Western Gaels en route to the Final. On the day of the Dublin v Mayo All Ireland Senior Football Final we took on Clyda Rov- ers in the Co Final at Kil- lavullen. Led by Team Cap- tain Jamie Buckley we had a mighty win on a scoreline of 1 22 to 1 8. The


team and scorers


that brought us our first County Minor Title since 1932 was as follows; Shane O Connor, Pad- raig Noonan, Tadhg O Sullivan, Jamie


Buckley


(Captain), Shane Walsh, Ryan Prendergast, Cian O Connor, William Finnegan, Dean Linehan, Sean Cot- ter, Colm Power, DJ Cahill. Subs James Barry, Cian Howard, Nathan Buckley, Jack Connor, Jack O Ma- hony, Colm Howard,


Jake


Tobin, Ciaran O Grady, Jes- se O Keeffe, Darren Moore. SCORERS; C O Connor 1 3, C. Power 0 4, D. Line- han, S. Walsh 0 4, W. Finne- gan 0 3, S. Cotter 0 2, DJ Cahill 0 1, J. Buckley 0 1. I think ‘twas Homer said


‘There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep’ so I must be more careful when compil- ing these notes late at night in the future!


Junior C Hurlers in


team are down to play the East Cork Championship semi final on tonight Thurs- day October 12th


. We de-


feated Lisgoold in round 1 while our semi final oppo- nents Sarsfields beat Midle- ton. At the time of writing the game is provisionally fixed for Riverstown -under lights but this has to be con- firmed.


Junior Hurlers in Division 2 Final. We are to play Sars in the JHL Division 2 Final but no date for this game is fixed yet


Park


Brian Honoured in Croke Park. At a function in Croke on


last evening the


Saturday inaugural


Electric Ireland Minor All Star teams were honoured. Our own Brian Roche was named on the Hurling team and received his award from the GAA president.


Under 16Hurlers in League and Championship Action


Final match having


Rebel Og North Under 16 Hurling League Final.U-16 league Final. Ballygiblin 3-7 Bride Rovers 0-11 We played North league last Wednesday, the been post-


poned a week earlier due to the pitch being unplaya- ble because of heavy rain. The game was played under lights in Fermoy. For some of our boys it was their 13th game in 4 weeks and it was beginning to show. Early on the two teams traded points with each


in seven points behind but second half started well with points from Cian Hogan and Kieran Kearney


and with


ten minutes left we had cut the lead to one point. Then we suffered a terrible blow with a very serious hand in- jury to Matthew Quinn who had to go straight to hospi- tal. The North Cork side scored another goal straight away after the injury. We tried hard to get back into the game but our shooting


wasn’t on target with a total of 16 wides we suffered de- feat by five points. Despite the defeat the lads can hold their heads high.


A post-


ponement of this Final had been requested because of the proximity of the Cham- pionship and the massive number of games we had played lately but this was refused. Matthew had operation on his hand the following day and thankfully is out of Hospital. Everyone in Bride Rovers wish him a speedy recovery.


County


Championship Quarter Final. Bride Rovers 2-14 Ibane Gaels 0-18 It was back to champi- onship Hurling on Sunday. With the


North Region


Championship trophy tucked away we were off on the County campaign. We travelled to Mayfield to take on Ibane Gaels- a West Cork combination of Barryroe and Argideen Rangers in the quarter final of the com- petition. The team takes it’s name from the ancient Irish barony of ‘Ibawne and Bar- ryroe. We started this game very well. A Cian Hogan point opened our account and then Kieran Kearney came from far out to score as cracker of a goal. Cian doubled his tally before Ib- ane got two points -they also hit


three early wides. We


lin scored a brace of goals before half


before Ballygib- time. We went


went four points ahead with Cian scoring his third, 1 3 to 0 2. Then, after great de- fensive work from Paddy O Flynn at centre-back, Adam Walsh and Edmond Cash- man combined in a smash- ing one-two for Edmond to finish to the net and we were seven points up after fifteen minutes. The Ibane team were much bigger than our lads and having recently won the County Premier 2 Under 15 Hurling Champi- onship weren’t going to cave in. They


came storming


into the game scoring seven points in a row. At half time the score was 2-3 to 9 points. The lads knew they would have to up the tempo and the teams swopped points throughout the second half. Ibane went


ahead by a


point twice and the teams were level scores five times


in the second half. Cian


Hogan scored some mighty long distance frees and Kier- an Kearney, Edmond Cash- man and Seamus Ahern also raised white flags. The last five minutes were hectic as Ibane came in waves but the backs held out for a two point win. This


team has


shown so much fight, spirit and skill this season they are a credit


to themselves


and their families. They wear the jersey with pride. It was inspiring for the lads to have Matthew Quinn with them on the line on Sunday. Panel: Shaun Knox Oisin


Roche Ruairi O Sullivan Matthew Quinn Jacob Pow- ell John Buckley Patrick O Flynn Michael Quinlan Seamus Aherne


Keiran


Kearney Craig O Cal- laghan Cian Hogan Tomas Macek Ronan O Connell Edmond Cashman Adam Walsh David Barry Darragh O Sullivan Eoin O Sullivan Connor Hazelwood.


This


game was at 11.30 on Sun- day morning in Mayfield. Seven of this team had played in the Rebel Og Under 14 Hurling League semi final v Whitechurch in Pynes Field - a game that ended at 5.30pm. The Hurlers are now in


the U-16 County Semi Final v Aghabullogue, this game is down for next Saturday Oct 14th


at 12 noon- no venue


yet fixed. AS well as a cross-over


between the under 14 and under 16 team six of the un- der 16 team are on the Mi- nor team. The programme of games these lads have played in recent weeks is crazy. July 31st


Minor C ship v


Ballygarvan(H) Aug 14 U 16 league v


Charleville(H) Aug 21 u16 FC v Castle-


lyons Aug 31 U-16 league Semi


Final v Fermoy (H) Sept 4 U-16 champ v


Charleville (H) Sept 6 Minor champ v St


Catherine’s (H) Sept 11 U-16


champ


Semi v. Ballyhea (H) Sept 14 U-16 champ Fi-


nal v Fermoy (H) Sept 16 Minor champ Fi-


nal v Cobh (H) Sept 18 Minor champ v


Sliabh Rua (F) Sept 23 Minor county v


Bandon (H) Sept 25 U-16 Champ Semi v Kilara Og (F)


Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email: sport@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web: www.eastcorkjournal.ie Oct 3rd U-16 league final


v Ballygiblin (H) Sept 30 Minor county


semi v Cobh (H) Oct 8th


Ibane Gaels(H) Oct 11th


Kilara Oct 14th


U 16 Co C.ship v U 16 F Replay v U 16 HC S/final


v Aghabullogue. There’s a schedule for that


you! and of course


does not take Second Level School games into account. Jerard Kenny U11 Hurl-


ing Memorial Blitz Bride Rovers U11’s wel-


comed Lisgoold, Water- grasshill and Carraig Na BhFear GAA clubs to a sunny Rathcormac last Sat- urday for the annual Jerard Kenny Memorial blitz. The day began with all


the players being paraded around the pitch by the Fer- moy pipe band before the four evenly matched and highly skilful teams began a hectic morning of hurling. The first round of match-


es saw Bride Rovers over- come Lisgoold by 3 points whilst Carraig Na BhFear saw off Watergrasshill by a similar scoreline, a quick turnaround and Bride Rov- ers faced Watergrasshill whilst Carraig Na BhFear faced Lisgoold. After an- other exciting 30 minutes of hurling both the Rovers and Carraig Na BhFear had won through to face off in the final. The final itself proved to


be another exciting match, with all the skills of hurl- ing on show by both teams. When the final whistle sounded the Rovers lads got


their reward for all


the passion, skill and hard work shown throughout the morning, winning out by the barest of margins, a single point. Thanks to Mick and Mag


Kenny, to our Referees Se- anie and Ronan and to all those who helped with teas, coffees, sandwiches and baking. Thanks also to all the clubs mentors and sup- porters who partook in ‘the silent


sidelines’ initiative


which allowed the officials and all the players to fully enjoy their games. Match squad - Luke Har-


rington (C) Conor O’Ri- ordan, Oran Kielty, Jack Collins, Tomas O’Riordan, Adam Cronin, Ben Knox, Cormac Barry, Jack Hynes, Jack Keating, Ronan Barry,


Thursday, 19th


October 2017 Notes


Gearoid O’Connell, Gear- oid Gubbins, Cillian O’Sul- livan, Bobby Dalton. Jerard Kenny was a pop-


ular young hurler with Bride Rovers. He played at wing forward on the Bride Rovers under 12 team that defeated Tracton in Mayfield in July 2000 in the County Final. The Rovers won by 5 7 to 2 1. One verse of a ballad written at the time is as fol- lows;


In goal was young Butler


and brave at the test Forde, Cotter and Col-


lins- full backs -the best. Two Kearneys and Walsh


were classy halfbacks whose hurling created so many at- tacks. Michael Collins our Cap-


tain shone out at midfield With young Padraig O


Keeffe refusing to yield Murphy and Kenny were


assisted by Quinn O Brien, O Keeffe,


Dooley -they kept the ball in.


Jer died in a tragic acci- dent in September 2001.


Rebel Og Under 14 HL semi final. In Pynes field on Sat-


urday evening we took on Whitechurch in the under 14 Hurling League Semi Fi- nal. It was a tough encoun- ter with both teams giving their all for the full hour. We won by 4 9 to 2 5 to qualify for the Final against Blar- ney. Team and scorers; F. O


Flynn. D. O Sullivan, L. Collins, J. Powell, J. Ahern, C. Hazlewood, D.Barry, C.Tobin, R. O Connell, N. Kelleher, A. Walsh 0 6, D. Cashman, E. Buckley1 0, E. Cashman 2 3 , R. O Cal- laghan 1 0.


Weekly Club Lotto. The


Lotto Jackpot Tuesday October the


for 3rd


was €15,400 and the four numbers drawn were 5,21, 24 and 29 and there was no winner €30 each to Sunday Soc- cer c/o J. Barry, Vanessa Fleming c/o Laya, Brian Shinnick,


Fermoy, Susan


Heffernan c/o Laya and Aidan O’Mahony, Fermoy. Tickets for the Lotto are just €2 each and can be bought from Club members, in lo- cal business outlets and on- line at locallotto.ie Your on- going support of the Lotto is really appreciated.


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Cork GAA Clubs Draw 2017/18 Tickets for the 2017/2018


Cork GAA members Draw are now on sale from Bride Rovers Club members. It is a fantastic Draw which goes on for 12 months. This is the 25th


year of the Draw with


bigger and better monthly prizes this year. The Draw is vital for our Club. For every €100 ticket we sell we can keep €45 so it brings in val- uable revenue for the Bride Rovers Club. We have huge Development Plans being finalised at present which will need major funding over the next 10 years. The Draw costs just €10 a month which is €120 or you can save €20 by paying a single payment of €100. You can pay by cash, cheque or Di- rect Debit, whichever suits best. This year the Draw Prize Fund is €450,000 in- cluding Pairc Ui Chaoimh 10 year tickets, Ed Sheeran Concert tickets plus huge cash


prizes, Hotel Breaks


and Vouchers. We would appeal to all our members, players and supporters to buy a ticket in this Draw. The tickets are now on sale from any Club Member, on- line at www.corkgaadraw. ie and more details are on our Club website and the Cork GAA website. At present our Club is


finalising a Major Develop- ment Plan which will need a huge fund raising effort so joining this Draw is just one way of helping plan for the future.


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