Mallow duo O’Driscoll and Walsh set for All Ireland final

NEXT Sunday is an important day for Mallow pair Cian O’Driscoll / Conor Walsh they make the long journey to Tyrone to Loughmacrory venue to represent their county in 60 / 30 All-Ireland Under 16 Doubles Final in which they face Galway pair Paul Conneely / Fiacha Mulkerrins in what promises to be a lively well contested final.

The Compunet IT Solutions sponsored Cork pair have performed well to date in this championship having a good passage through their Munster programme clinching the Munster title with an excellent display in the final.

They then moved on to an All-Ireland semi-final meeting with a well fancied Kilkenny pair, after a lively contest with Kilkenny they eventually book their place in the final with an 11 / 7 aces win the a tie-break.

We would certainly hope that tough game with Kilkenny will have brought them on a lot, they have put in a lot of work in the past two weeks preparing for Sunday’s Final which again is not an easy one.

Galway have two excellent players and they wont go down without giving it their all. We hope that Conor Walsh and Cian O’Driscoll’s tough games on the path to this final will help them and having them fully geared for a clash in which they will to put in another big performance. Wishing them well in their quest to bring this important title to their club and county.

Back on the domestic scene the inaugural Munster One Wall Championship Finals go ahead on this Saturday at Conna Community Complex commencing at 10.30am.The rise in popularity of One Wall Handball has resulted in the addition of an All-Ireland series for 2016 which is scheduled for weekend of November 11/12 venue for that to be decided at meeting of National Handball CCCC on Tuesday evening next in Athlone.

This year’s inaugural All-Ireland championship will be played in the following grades of an all singles championship Boys and Girls Under 15 and Under 17, Mens Open, Mens B, Mens C and Masters, Ladies Open, Ladies B and Ladies C.

In preparation for next Saturday’s Munster championship which will be completed in the one day Cork Handball Board in conjunction with Conna club and Community Complex had a very successful series of trials last Saturday which resulted in the following team to represent the county in next Saturday’s programme.

All of them will face difficult enough tasks on Saturday in what promises to produce some competitive fare.

The 40/20 County Juvenile singles league is up and running starting with Under 12 Singles with other age groups up to and including Under 17 all commencing over the next week or two.

Also last Monday evening at a Munster Handball Council Meeting. The Primary schools inter-county Team competitions were fixed for Sunday, December 4 at Ballydesmond and Ballymacelligot over the next number of weeks the Juvenile committee will be working on finalising our Mallow Credit Union sponsored teams for both team competitions.