Hurling, swimming and basketball finals decided
IT was another busy weekend at Community Games with Hurling, Basketball and Swimming. Well done to all our participants – congratulations to our winners and hopefully our runner-ups are looking forward to competing again next year. HURLING The U-11 hurling competition took place in Balluduff on Saturday last with foru teams competing. As usual, all teams played each other in Round Robin format with three points for win, and one point for a draw. In round 1 Ardfert/Kilmoyley 2-3 Kenmare 0-2, Ballyduff 0-3 Ballyheigue 1-0. In Round 2 - Ballyduff 0-2 Kenmare 2-1, Ardfert/Kilmoyley 5-3 Ballyheigue 0-3. In Round 3 Ardfert/Kilmoyley 2-5 Ballyduff 0-3 Kenmare 0-3 Ballyheigue 1-0.
These results gave Ballyduff the certificates with 1 draw, Ballyheigue the bronze medals with 2 draws, Kenmare the silver medals with one victory and one draw, and retaining their county title and receiving the gold medals for the third year in a row are Ardfert/ Kilmoyley with three victories NS they will now represent Kerry at the provincial finals.
Results: 1. Ardfert/Kilmoyley; 2. Kenmare; 3 Ballyheigue; 4. Ballyduff. BASKETBALL Our U-16 Basketball took place on Sunday with two Groups – Group A. Rock St, St Brendans, Kenmare and Group B Rathmore/ Gneeveguilla,Killorglin, and Castleisland.
In Group 1 the results were Rock Street 25, St Brendans 20; St Brendans 9 Kenmare 28. Kenmare qualified for the final with a 14-4 victory over Rock St/ Caherslee.
In Group B, the results were Rathmore/Gneeveguilla 9 Killorglin 31; and Castleisland 31 Rathmore/ Gneeveguilla 15. In the final game of this group Killorglin qualified for the final and dethroned last years winners Castleisland by 29 to 14. The 3rd/4th place play-off game was an absolute thriller with Rock St/ Caherslee winning the bronze medals on a score of 27-26 for Castleisland who got the Certs.
In the final Killorglin were always in control against an very good Kenmare side and claimed the county title and gold medals on a score of Killorglin 28 Kenmare 15, and they received silver medals.
Results: 1. Killorglin; 2. Kenmare; 3. Rock St/Caherslee;4. Castleisland. SWIMMING Our Swimming Competition took place at Tralee Sports Complex with competitions for U-8, 10, 12, 14 & 16 with heats, semi-finals and finals in freestyle backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and also squad relays in U-13 and U-16. As usual, we are grateful for the help of our many helpers and volunteers and Tralee Sports Complex who help insure the success of this competition which is one of our largest competition.
Well done to all the children who took part and we hope those who weren’t lucky enough to go home with medals this year will come back to try again next year. A huge congratulations to our winners – the standard as always is very high in this, our swimming
competition, and going home with a County Medal is always a huge achievement.
Results
U-8 Freestyle: Girls: 1. Jocelyn Hickey (Killarney South); 2. Tara Roarty (Kilcummin); 3 Aisling O’Connell (St Brendans/Oakpark).
Boys: 1. Caolan Mitchell (Spa Muckross); 2. John E O’Sullivan (Kenmare); 3. Jack Costelloe (St Brendans/Oakpark)
U-10 Freestyle: Girls: 1. Lucy O’Donnell (Rock St/Caherslee); 2. Faye O’Neill (Spa/Muckross); 3. Kim McTigue (Rock St/Caherslee).
Boys: 1. Tommy Arthur (Kenmare); 2. Eoin Carroll (Killarney South); 3. Rory O’Halloran (St Brendans/Oakpark)
U-10 Backstroke: 1. Rachel O’Mahoney (Blennerville/Ballyard); 2. Elizabeth Slattery (Blennerville/Ballyard); 3. Aoibhe Keane Frizelle (Ballyduff).
Boys: 1. Paddy Lane (Rock St/Caherslee); 2. Tommy Meaher (Kenmare); 3. Peter O’Doherty (Beaufort); Rory Boyd (Spa/Fenit/Barrow)
Special Swim: Well done to Antoinette O’Leary
of Rathmore/Gneeveguilla on her great swim.
U-12 Freestyle: Girls: 1. Ellie Stack (St Brendans/Oakpark); 2. Gillian Lane (Rock St/ Caherslee); 3. Ellie Sugrue (Kenmare).
Boys: 1. Ross O’Leary; 2. Ethan O’Neill (Spa/ Muckross); 3. Jack Doyle (St Brendans/ Oakpark).
U-12 Backstroke: Girls: 1. Pia Hickey (Killarney South); 2. Alison Lane (Rock St/Caherslee); 3. Alexandra Perez (Rock St/Caherslee).
Boys: 1. Eoghan Daly (Listowel); 2. Kieran Spaights (Tarbert); 3. Nathan O’Connor (Glenflesk). Squads
U-13: 1. Rock St/Caherslee (Evelyn Fox, Alison Lane, Gillian Lane, Leah Long, Rachel O’Donnell, Alexandra Perez); 2. St Brendans/Oakpark (Ellie Stack, Sara Lucid, Niamh O’Mahony, Emily McElligott); Laura O’Halloran, Catherine Duggan); 3. Killorglin (Julie Rose Bowell, Kerry Lynch, Kate Moroney, Ellen O’Connor).
Boys: 1. Rathmore/Gneeveguilla (Donal Daly, Paudie O’Leary, Ross O’Leary, Cian O’Leary); 2. Rock St/Caherslee (Cian Dillane, Donnacha Fox, Joe Reidy, Eoin Higgins). 3. Beaufort (Timmy
Casey, Donnacha Coffey, Joshua Coffey, Conor Lehane, Mikey Moriarty).
U-14 Freestyle: Girls: 1. Rachel O’Donnell (Rock St/Caherslee); Ava O’Mahoney (Blennerville/Ballyard); 3. Aisling Reidy (Killarney South).
Boys: 1. Nader Madoudi (St Brendans/Oakpark); 2. Paudie O’Leary (Rathmore/Gneeveguilla); 3. Conor O’Leary (Castlegregory).
U-14 Backstroke: Girls: 1. Treasa O’Sullivan (Spa/Muckross); 2. Saibh O’Brien (Milltown/ Listry); 3. Lauren Lehane (Beaufort); 4. Mairead Egan (Beaufort).
Boys: 1. Padraig Woods (Ballyheigue); 2. Illan Wall (Kenmare); Daragh Materson (St Brendans/Oakpark).
U-14 Breaststroke: Girls: 1. Niamh Ryan (Rock St/Caherslee); 2. Emma O’Regan (Kenmare); 3. Aoife Dillane (Rock St/Caherslee).
Boys: 1. Harry Boyd (Spa/Fenit/Barrow); 2. Donal Daly (Rathmore/Gneeveuguilla); 3. Donnacha Fox (Rock St/Caherslee).
U-14 Butterfly: Girls: 1. Leah Long (Rock St/Caherslee); 2. Emma Reidy (Rock St/ Caherslee); 3. Emer O’Dowd (Killarney South).
Boys: 1. Cian O’Sullivan (Kenmare); 2. Michael Sweeney (Kilcummin); 3. Sean Fitzgibbon (Blennerville/Ballyard).
U-16 Freestyle: Girls: 1. Ciara Drinan (Blennerville/Ballyard); 2. Eimear Crowley (Kenmare); 3. Meadhbh O’Sullivan (Kenmare).
Boys: 1. Dara Kennelly (Annascaul/Camp/Inch); 2. Iarliath Hayes (Kenmare).
U-16 Backstroke: Girls: 1. Megan O’Donnell: 2. Cara Daly (Kenmare).
Boys: 1. Caomhan Daly; 2. Owen Fitzgerald (Rathmore/Gneeveguilla).
U-16 Butterfly: Girls: 1. Niamh Coffey (Spa Muckross); 2. Mebh Moloney (Blennerville/Ballyard); 3. Emer Dineen (Castlegregory).
Boys: 1. Shane Kerins (Killarney North); 2. Oisin Mahony (St Brendans/Oakpark); 3. Eoin Cahill (St Brendans/Oakpark). Squads U-16 Medley: Girls: 1. Kenmare (Eimear Crowley, Ellen Adams, Lauren Tanner, Emma O’Regan, Emer O’Sullivan, Aishling Foley); 2. Blennerville/Ballyard (Ciara Drinan, Mebh Moloney, Kate Mulgrew, Ava O’Mahoney, Emma Lynch); 3. Killorglin (Grace Lynch, Meadhbh O’Sullivan, Orlaith O’Sullivan, Orlaith Reynolds).
Boys: 1. St Brendans/Oakpark (Oisin O’Mahony, Eoin Cahill, Daragh Masterson, Nader Maloudi); 2. Kenmare (Padraig Cronin, Iarlaith Hayes, Cian O’Sullivan, Illan Wall).
Fixtures Soccer Boys U-12 – Sunday, April 26 Closing dates for entries: Thursday, April 23 Futsal Boys U-13 and Girls Gaelic football U-14
Fixture date changes Futsal Boys U-13 Sunday, May 3; Futsal Boys U15 Sunday May 10; Tag Rugby U-11 & U-14 Sunday, May 24.