Heinze and Murray lead Cuchulainn challenge
LAYTOWN & BETTYSTOWN LADIES
LAST Thursday’s lamb competition: 1st Louise McAuley 18pts, 2nd Carol Wickham 17pts.
January 14th/15th nine-hole lamb competition: Div 1 winner Aimee Wickham (6) 19pts, 2nd Louise McAuley (6) 18pts; Div 2 winner Aileen Rooney (13) 16pts, 2nd Ena O’Hare (17) 15pts.
MACBRIDE P&P
THE MacBride Winter League will commence on the weekend of Saturday February 3rd and Sunday 4th, with Captain Ray McKenna pitching off the 2018 season at 10am on the Sunday.
There was no winner of last week’s club lotto jackpot prize. The draw took place on Tuesday and the winning numbers were 1, 7, 18 & 20. The lucky dip winners were Jennifer Devine, Michelle Flood and Peter & Mavis.
The next draw will take place on Tuesday 30th when the jackpot prize will be €2,750.
Members are reminded that membership fees are now due for renewal.
For more information about MacBride Pitch & Putt, please contact us via our Facebook page.
SEAPOINT P&P
OUR six-week Briscoes Expert Electrical Winter League commenced last weekend. Week 1 was an 18 nett, with the results as follows:
Senior - 1st Pat Greene 44, 2nd Pat Fanning 48 (ob9 25); Inter - 1st Michael Vaughan 44 (ob9 21), 2nd Sean Breen 44 (ob9 21½); Junior - 1st Declan Murphy 43, 2nd Eddie Smith 44; Ladies - 1st Marlo Everitt 44, 2nd Mary Coyle 45.
Five league points go to Team 3 (Pat Fanning, Frank Penders, Marlo Everitt & Nicky McCann) who had a score of -25. Three points were awarded to Team 8 (Gerry Breen jnr, Sean Breen, Jim Donnelly & Margaret McCabe) who had a score of -23.
This week’s competition is Week 2 of the Winter League and it will be an 18 gross. Times of play are Friday and Saturday at 1.30pm and Sunday at 9.30am and 1.30pm.
After our recent agm the Committee for 2018 has been elected, as follows: President: Fr Tom Cooney; Chairman: Brian McGinn; Vice Chairman: TBC; Secretary: Joe Downes; Treasurer: John Byrne; Competition Secretary: Barry McQuillan; Juvenile Officer: Pat Greene; PRO: Mary Coyle; Ladies Captain: Joanne Cooney; Gents Captain: Paul Cooney.
This year Seapoint Pitch and Putt Club are proud hosts of the International Irish Open, to be held on August 25th and 26th.
Check out our website page and our Facebook page. SIX members of Ardee-based CuChulainn Archers are now in France where they are competing in the World Cup, but last week began with a Lancaster/ Vegas style shoot held in Cavan.
With the bows and equipment already en route to France by car for safety reasons, several members were left wondering how they could practice for the World Cup without bows. However, in this sport nobody is left out and with an amount of scrounging round, enough equipment was begged and borrowed for the Cavan shoot.
This is actually great practice for the archers since any equipment failure during a shoot will be rectified by others, and so to arrive at a shoot with an unfamiliar bow set-up, different size arrows etc will put anyone to the test.
During the shoot two members had to withdraw, Christina Bathe who is still recovering from a wrist injury and Christy Banks whose compound bow became derailed while shooting. Luckily Christy received no injury, but as specialist equipment is required to put the string back to tension he finished the day by supporting his teammates, and in particular his partner Claudia Heinze.
The day continued with John Dollard putting up a massive fight while using Christy Banks’ previous bow, the junior recurve Brandon Dollard using Ann Marie Murray’s old barebow, Fiachra Judge using a former bow of his own and Christina Bathe sharing her bow with Ann Marie Murray. Adria Quinn had her own equipment as she’s not going to France and Claudia Heinze made use of her own barebow.
Once the Lancaster-style head-to-heads began, various members lost out on winning a place to the finals until Heinze represented the barebow and came second, with Ann Marie Murray - representing the compound women - third.
New courses are opening up now and interested parties are asked to contact the club directly on Facebook at Cuhulainn Archers as the secretary is away at present.
The 23-strong Ireland team now in France includes six members of CuChulainn, namely John Keenan, Deirdre Rogers, Fiachra Judge, Ann Marie Murray, Eamonn Rogers and John Dollard.