Handball focus is on Munster Senior Championships
THE main focus this week in the handball courts will be Men’s and Ladies Munster Senior Singles and Doubles championship and in 40x20 county championship both adult and juvenile will progress.
Looking first at Munster Senior Championship, this Friday in Men’s Senior Singles round of 16 there are four games down for decision, all with a 7.30 start. At Cappagh Tagdh O’Neill, Mallow, plays Diarmuid Nash, Clare.
At Mallow in an all Cork clash Brendan Fleming, Ballydesmond will play Daniel Relihan, Liscarroll.
At Broadford David Walsh, Mallow, plays Ger Coonan, Tipperary, while at Ballydesmond Tadgh Carroll, Mallow, will face Kerry’s Jack O’Shea.
On Saturday at Cappagh at 12 noon in a Ladies Senior semi-final, Aishling O’Keeffe, Ballydesmond, plays Martina McMahon, Limerick.
On Saturday four quarter fiinals of Men’s Senior Singles are down for decision all with a 12 noon start. At Cappagh CJ Fitzpatrick, Limerick, play the winner of Diarmuid Nash v Tadgh O’Neill.
At Mallow Michael Hedigan, Liscarroll, will play the winner of Brendan Fleming v Daniel Relihan.
Broadford will host a double header with Dominic Lynch, Kerry, playing the winner of David Walsh v Ger Coonan. In the second game in Broadford Colin Crehan, Clare, play the winner of Tadgh Carroll v Jack O’Shea.
In County championship programme on this Thursday at Mallow 6.30 start in Emerald Masters A Doubles Final St Finbarrs/Liscarroll pair John Herlihy/John Hedigan take on Conna’s Chris Hurley and Brendan Hurley.
Also on this Thursday at Liscarroll 7.30 start in Intermediate Doubles Final the Liscarroll/ Ballydesmond pairing of Shane Hedigan and Donnacha O’Dea play Mallow’s Tadhg O’Neill and David Walsh.
On Tuesday evening at Liscarroll at 7.30 in Silver Masters B Doubles Final Ballydesmond duo Philip O’Carroll and Paul Kerins play Conna’s Kieran Noonan and Batt Sheehan. In Junior B Doubles quarter-final at Kilworth on Sunday with a 2pm start Conna pair Ian Heffernan and Hugh Carolan play Liscarroll’s Tadhg Jones and Dwayne Sheehan.
At the other side of Junior B Doubles it’s down to a semi-final. In the quarter-finals played last weekend Kilworth pair Michael Dunne and Timmy Dunne defeated Mallow partnership Michael O’Malley and Niall Delany, while in the second quarter-final Boherbue pair Shane Flynn and Roger Casey defeated Mallow’s Eoghan Sheehan and Gearoid O’Connell.
On Sunday last the Munster Primary Schools Inter-County team competitions which were scheduled for Nenagh and Kilcolman fell foul of the weather following overnight snowfall in the area they had to be postponed. They have now been rescheduled for Sunday, December 17 at the same venues and the same starting time of 10.30am.
There will be plenty of action in Mallow Credit Union Juvenile County championship over the next two weekends as the different age groups are played down to finals with the programme of Finals scheduled for Mallow on Saturday/ Sunday, January 6/7.
Last weekend at Broadford The Bill Duggan Memorial Invitational Tournament was played. In Men’s Doubles Paul Brady and Michael Finnegan made the long journey from Cavan and duly took the spoils.
In Ladies Senior Catriona Casey, Ballydesmond, teamed up with Clare’s Catriona Millane and they went on to take the spoils defeating the Limerick/Mayo combination of Martina McMahon and Pauline Gallagher.
Liscarroll club are now gearing up for the start of the Tim Healy Memorial Munster Open Boys and Girls U-13 and U-15 Tournaments which are again being decided in their usual spot December 27 to January 1. It has continued to attracted a huge entry over the years and this looks no different with the huge volume of work which goes into organising it year on year again having to be faced.