BLESSINGTON
Lotto - No winner of Blessington GAA lotto on May 8. Numbers drawn: 19, 22, 23, and 26. Jackpot now €3,400. One winner of match three numbers and wins €300: Brendan McGarr c/o Jordan/Sean. Next draw May 22 in Miley’s. Thank you for your support.
Senior Fundraiser – The Sports Panel Live - Blessington GAA Senior men’s fundraiser. Marty Morrissey, Alan Brogan, Dessie Dolan, Anthony Daly, Marc O’Sé and Mick Galwey in the Avon Ri on Thursday, May 17, at 7pm. Doors open 6.30pm. Tickets available from senior footballers, committee members and at the door. Tickets €20. If juvenile players (aged 13 and over) wish to attend with a parent/guardian, they can pay at the door €10. Please support.
Paddy Magee Memorial Match – Friday, May 18, at 7.45pm at the pitch against Castletown, Co Wexford. Entrance €5 will be donated to local charities.
County Senior Footballers – Well done to the County Senior Footballers and especially our clubman David Boothman who beat Offaly in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise on a score-line of 1-20 to 1-15.
County Senior Hurlers – Well done to the County Senior hurlers who beat Mayo in Aughrim on a scoreline of Wicklow 1-20 Mayo 2-11. Minors – Training Monday and Friday at 7pm. Under-15s – The lads had an enjoyable trip to Carlingford at the weekend. The team were a credit to themselves and Blessington GAA.
On Friday the lads did an activity followed by a meeting with Louth Senior player Jim McEnenany. An early 7.30am morning swim on Saturday shook any cobwebs off and this was followed by activities in Carlingford adventure centre. under-14s and coaches took on under-15s in a match. A hat-trick from Jonathan Daniels sealed a win for the under-14s. Training Monday from 6.30pm. Under-15s away to Éire Óg on Wed at 7.15pm.
Under-12s – We travelled to Celbridge on Thursday for the next round of the U12 Football Cup.
An early evening throw in due to pitch availability saw us face Confey from Leixlip in the third round of the NKL Cup on Wednesday, May 9, at home.
Despite most of possession and some errant finishing, half time saw us in the lead in a tough contest.
The second half saw Confey come back strongly but Blessington scored a goal late on to secure passage to this weekends Q/F draw. Some great performances and effort shown especially in defence. Final score Blessington 4-06, Confey 4-03. Next round of NKL Cup this Wednesday. At time of writing draw not issued yet.
Under-12s v St Edwards away on Saturday, May 12, in Rathcoffey. Due to injuries and unavailability the squad needed the help of some under-11s. The match was a great contest and with rotation of all 13 players Blessington came out on top against a team yet unbeaten in the league and championship on a scoreline of 10-06 to 8-08.
Under-11s – Training going very well. Under-11 matches on Wednesday (today): Blues away to Bray 1, Whites home to Kiltegan, Reds away to Coolkenno.
On Saturday at 4.30pm, the under-11s face Allenwood away.
Under-9s – Blessington’s under-9s hosted Go Games on Saturday and fielded three teams with some great football being played.
A big thank you to Baltinglass and Hollywood for making it a great mornings football. A big thank you from all the coaches to Elaine Duffy for all her organising. A great job done as usual. Next up away to Allenwood at 3.30pm on Saturday.
Under-8s - Our Under-8 NKL league team played at home against Ardclough on Saturday and after a busy morning’s football at the Go Games the lads were slow to get going, but it didn’t take long for them to kick into gear and put in a great performance with some brilliantly worked team scores...emphasis today was on defending from the front and good tackling.
Under-7s – Great morning of football as Blessington hosted Go Games. We had two teams and hosted Baltinglass and Hollywood and did brilliantly in all games playing lovely football and working very hard for each other.
The most competitive game was Blesso 1 against Blesso 2 and for peaceful training on Monday we will call that one a draw. Thanks to all the parents for supporting us and also bring snacks. Thanks to Elaine and her team of helpers and Sean Dempsey for having the pitches marked out.
Next up on Saturday, May 19, away to Cappagh at 2.30pm. Also, away to Ardclough at 3.30pm.
Senior Ladies – In the Wicklow league, at home to Valleymount on Thursday at 7pm.
Under-14s – Under-14 girls had a friendly last Thursday away to Baltinglass. The team started slowly, shooting some early wides, however, they got into their stride and ended up winning on a scoreline of Baltinglass 2-04, Blessington 6-07.
Scorers for Blessington were Aoibheann Bailey, Emily Rose O’Toole, Kayleigh O’ Neill, Sadhbh Cotter and Sadhbh Fisher.
Next up for the girls are Wicklow league games: Thursday, May 17, the White team have a home game vs Kilcoole at 7pm. Speedy recovery to Hannah Byrne and Elaine O’Dwyer who picked up injuries last week.
Under-12’s –Two one-sided games at home tonight for our under-12 girls. White Team were heavily beaten by Coolkenno but credit to our girls for their never give up attitude.
Special mention to Eilis Reid who received player of the match tonight she’s some trooper!
The Blue team had a big win against AGB 9-14 to 2-2. phenomenal performances they are displaying.
Aisling Brennan was the very worthy POTM - with a little stint in goals also!! Blue team have only one league game to go v St Pats in two weeks time.
Under-8s - Under-8 girls gave a great performance in the blitz in AGB on Saturday, May 12. Three matches, won two, drew third. The future is bright for Blessington ladies.
Under-10s - What a morning out in Arklow for the under-10 girls on Saturday. The weather was fab and the girls were super. Played Roundwood, Ashford and the best game of all against Tinahely. A win in all three, well deserved. Each of the girls were brilliant but a special mention has to go out to Elizabeth Hearns for her strength on the ball and Caoimhe Murphy with her super kick outs in goals. Well done to all. Corner House.
The numbers drawn were 3, 6, 19, and 21. There was one match-three winner. Congratulations to John Geoghegan on winning €200.
Next week’s draw is in lucky Miley’s! We’ve already had two jackpot winners in Miley’s so
Make sure to get your tickets. Jackpot is worth €1,700. If you’re not in...you can’t win.
Avondale’s Junior footballers welcomed Avoca to a damp complex on May 3 for our first game in north east league.
From the very start we got stuck in and the scores started to flow. Despite Avoca’s best efforts they were never able to get within touching distance of us and we ran out comfortable winners on a scoreline of 2-15 to 1-09.
Team: Kieran Penn, Conor Sheehan, Kevin Sheehan, Conor Penn, Harrison Penn, James Busher, Stephen Langan, Oisin McGraynor (104), Adam B Byrne (0-1), Ross Ward (0-1), Callum Pursey (1-0), Jack Manley (0-1), Ian Heffernan (0-4,) Sean McGraynor (0-2), Darren Beevor (0-2). Subs: Anthony Byrne, Shane Burch, Ross Merry and Diarmuid O’Briain.Abhainn Dala Abu.
The senior footballers played Kilmac in the Division 1 Cup competition on Thursday last.
Despite missing a lot of the panel through injury, holidays and county duty, the lads came through an entertaining game on a scoreline of 1-14 to 2-10.
We were down to 13 men in the second half through injury but held on, with a goal from veteran Eugene Dunne and a five-point haul from Sean McGraynor proving key.
Team: Brian Burke, Shane O’Neill, Adam Benson Byrne (0-1), Shane Beevor (0-1), Liam Kinsella (0-1), Shane Byrne, Paddy Kinsella (01), Eoin Baker (0-1), Paudie Geoghegan (0-2), Eugene Dunne (1-0), Dean Gahan (0-2), Shane Burch, Cian O’Hannin, Sean McGraynor (0-5).
Our under-13 hurlers had their first match of the season on Monday 30th away in Tinahely against Luke O’Toole’s.
Despite low numbers, they turned up and played full of heart!
Unfortunately they were defeated but are optimistic for the coming months.
We are so proud of each and everyone of these young lads.
For any lads interested in hurling, we’ll be out training every Friday at 7pm.
We’d like to thank Luke O’Toole’s for their hospitality. Very much appreciated.
Our under-13 footballers played Tomacork last Monday, May 7, at home in the complex. Unfortunately for our lads, Tomacork came out the much stronger team.
Training Wednesday at 7pm.
Our under-11 footballers had a good win on Wednesday, May 2, after a tough battle against Michael Dwyers.
Final score was 3-4 (15 points) to 0-6 (18 points). This is a game that went right to the wire.
It was a great team performance with Leighton, Padraic, Leon and the heroic Oscar standing out.
Training continues every Friday from 6.30 to 7.30pm.
Well done to all the under-7s and 9s boys and girls who played very well in Carnew Friday evening the 4th in the Hurling Go Games blitz