Thursday, 9th August 2018


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63 East Cork Tennis Lower Aghada Tennis Club


East Cork Senior Open 2018 Our annual East Cork


Senior Open will begin on Saturday 11th


and will run until finals day on Sunday 19th


gust. This years tournament


director Eileen Bawden say’s it promises to be a another huge event for the club and says entries are at an all time high. Aine Dunne Lyons will co run this years tourna- ment with Eileen. Events


include MD1,


WD1, XD1, MD2, WD2, XD2, MD3, WD3, XD3, MD4, WD4, XD4, MD5, WD5, XD5, MD6, WD6 and XD6. Play will take place all


of August Au-


day on Saturdays and Sundays and from around 6 pm until late Monday to Friday. Your all welcome


some Lower Aghada wins recorded before


to


come and support your favorite partnerships, re- freshments will be ready available. This years event is be- ing sponsored by the fol- lowing, Kareys Hyundai Midleton (Tony McCar- thy), Freight Train (Wayne Fitzpatrick), Bitesize, Trabolgan H C, Leahys Open Farm, Fota Wildlife Park, Gate Cinema Mid- leton and Midleton Park Hotel.


Douglas 2018 Open (Singles) Ongoing all this week,


going


to press for Marek Zis- ka in division 2, Michael Zeidler in division 3 and Deidre Browne in division 5.


Irish Junior Close Championships 2018 at Rushbrooke The week long event concluded last weekend, news came through as we went to press of wins for Lower Aghada’s Han- agh Nolan, Mark Griffin, Gavin Kirrane and Kim Moran. (Watch this space for full report in next weeks issue) Well done to all involved.


Club Nites Waterford Raceway Sunday August 19th will


see the running of the 7th round of the driver of the year championship 2018- kindly sponsored by Hick- ey Autos. There will be cups up for grabs in the junior classes and stocks, along with the Tony Dun- phy and Maura Walsh cups. With the champi- onship really taking shape as we have entered the second half of the season, this big cup day is going to make it all the more interesting and is sure to attract a large number of cars.


No doubt Brian


Whelan will be all out to retain the Tony Dunphy cup, as will Jamie Con- don- the current holder of the Maura Walsh cup.


Both these races are over 20 laps and always bring the best out of the drivers especially if track condi- tions are good. The cur- rent holder of the stock class cup, Alan Houlihan, has stepped up this season to compete in class 4 so we will have a new name on this cup for 2018. After a slow start to the season the stock class has become very competitive again at recent racedays with Anne McGuire, Joe Dilworth and Brian West- on sure to be battling it out to get their name on the cup. The modified and


standard junior cups look like


they will have new


names on them for 2018 as Ger Russell and Cath-


al McGivern, the current holders,


haven’t racing much at been the Pike


this season. No doubt the Deasy brothers and Jack Hickey will have a great battle in the modified class while the standard juniors are even harder to call with Ted McGrath, Aidan Heney and Evin Harding, amongst others, all in contention.


In the


rookies Liam Kiersey will no doubt put up a strong defence to retain the cup with a major challenge coming from Brian Scan- nell and Ross Ryan. It has the makings of


another great days racing and is surely the place to be if you have an interest in hot-rodding or motor- sport in general.


• From last week’s club nite with Pat Hanley.


Last weeks club night was with Pat Hanley and even though the weath-


er conditions didn’t fa-


vor us we had a fine turn out, fabolus tennis and of


course the get together in the cabin afterwards. The prize winner was Liz Clif-


ford. On the night we wel- comed a new lady to Club Nite Claire Plunket.


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