NEWTOWN JUNIORS

All our teams were in action last weekend apart from the Under 14’s, whose game was off due to school trips. Of the teams that played the Under 8’s hosted Rathnew Green in a keenly-contested series of games where among the players who starred for Newtown were Gerry Hoban and Colin Healy.

The Under 9’s were edged out narrowly in a high scoring game by Enniskerry as among their goalscorers were Leon O’Connor, JV Kelly, Leighton Byrne and Lucas Dowdall.

The 10’s travelled to take on Glencormac United and ran out winners against a gallant home side.

Among the goals were William Valentine, Max Roche, Daniel Eager and Ryan Collins while starring were Mikey Synnott and Nikita Neaga.

The 11’s enjoyed their trip to take on Arklow Town Red where Jake Robertson, William Valentine, Aidan Heffernan and Cathal O’Toole found the net. PJ Duffy and Cillian Coffey had excellent games.

The 12’s are happy campers this week after an excellent 4-0 away win against Ashford Rovers in the first leg quarter-final tie.

Patrick Martin with two and one each from Aaron Cawley abd Paudie Gammell did the damage while Iggy Szpilka, Hannah Martin and Max Synnott had excellent games.

Obviously some of the players had a win bonus inserted in their contracts according to the amount of them that were in Burger King after the game.

The team wishes the best of luck to Keira Farrelly who picked up a knock during the game.

The following are the fixtures for Sat.24th/ Sun.25th March 2018;

U8’s - Wicklow Cancer Support Tournament 10am-12pm on Good Friday.

U10’s - Wicklow Cancer Support Tournament 12-2pm on Good Friday.

U11’s - Wicklow Cancer Support Tournament 12-2pm on Good Friday.

U14’s - Wicklow Cancer Support Tournament 4pm onwards on Good Friday.

(Fixtures and kickoff times are subject to change).

There will be no WDSL fixtures for the Easter weekend but we will be entering teams in the annual Soccer Blitz in aid of Wicklow Cancer Support. The Blitz is run by Tony Doran and his many supporters along with the Wicklow Town and Wicklow Rovers clubs.

Each team that plays in the blitz makes a donation to this worthy cause and everybody has a great day of football. Coaches will be sending out messages to all players so if you wish or intend playing please reply. Thank you. We would like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter.

We have a three players from the club celebrating birthdays in the coming week and they are Bobby Spillane from the Under 8’s and the Under 10’s duo Max Roche and Ryan Collins. Happy birthday to all three from everyone in Newtown Juniors F.C.

All our teams are back in training now for the past couple of weeks.

There are also a couple of slots on all our teams at the moment so if there are any girls or boys who would like to join the club please contact our Secretary Hughie at 0876987653 and he will provide you with all the information you will need.

Also in a new venture by the WDSL they have started a Girls Academy for all girls playing in the League that will also cater for girls who may not be a member of a club or a team. Training takes place for all age groups U10, U12 and U14 from 4.30pm until 6pm every Sunday evening. For further information please contact our Secretary Hughie at 0876987653/ hughienolan@gmail.com.

We had 30 players still standing going into Week 6 but that number dropped by one to 29 players thanks to Huddersfield Town. Week 7 fixtures will be for next weekend of Saturday, 31st March/Sunday, 1st April 2018. Many thanks everyone for your continued support. You can follow the progress of the competition on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

The WDSL Fundraiser “The Kube” will take place in the Parkview Hotel on Saturday, 7th April 2018.

We have two participants namely John Dunleavy and Stephen Nolan who will both be raising funds for our club through this event. The two lads were in the Parkview with all the other contestants last Thursday at the launch of the event. If you can sponsor either John or Stephen for any amount no matter how small please contact any committee member for further information.

On a sadder note we have a number of bereavements we would like to acknowledge. Our club would like to extend their sincere condolences to the family and friends of Dessie Murphy late of Kilpedder and formerly of Booterstown Co. Dublin, Mary Synnott from Monaline Newtownmountkennedy, and Anthony (Anto) Smyth of Delgany who all sadly passed away last week. May they all rest in peace.

For further information on all matters “Newtown Juniors F.C.” please contact the Secretary at 0876987653 or by email to hughienolan@gmail.com and you can also follow the club on our Facebook and Twitter pages. limited numbers and were very unlucky not to have scored a few goals only for our keeper Conor Nolan making some excellent saves. Well done to all. We hope to see all at training Thursday night

Avonmore U-12A v. Wicklow Rovers U-12: A great win for our U-12A team against Wicklow Rovers in the first round of the cup. Conditions were poor with driving rain, but this didn’t deter our lads.

We knew Rovers would come at us strong, after losing twice to us and they didn’t disappoint. With some great football from both sides, we were first to put one away, when Leighton Doran shimmied past his player and scored. Continuing the pressure, Kian Fluskey found room and also stuck one away.

The second half was more of the same, but for the brave goalkeeping of the Rovers keeper we could have been a few more goals up. The work rate of the team was immense, Paddy Harper, Oscar Dowling and Mark O’Reilly deserving a mention. A brilliant performance tonight lads in very poor conditions, well done.