Footballers lose away to Buttevant

Our Div. 1 footballers travelled to Buttevant looking to make it 2 wins from 2 in the league. However, Buttevant started well and owned the ball for the first 15 minutes, but we defended very well and held them scoreless thanks to some fine goalkeeping from Adrian O’Driscoll. They had a point from play, and we equalised through a Kevin Kiely free. Buttevant continued to press and led 1-4 to point after 15 minutes. We then hit back with 1-2 from play with Kevin getting the goal and Brian O’Driscoll and Denis Kiely each kicking a point. However, Buttevant capitalised on a turnover with their second goal to leave the half time score 2-4 to 1-3 in their favour. James Roche went off injured at half time and was replaced by Fionn Hess. Buttevant went up a gear after half time and added 1-4 to 2 points for Ballyhooly. We did miss a penalty that would have kept us in the game but in the end Buttevant were just that bit sharper than us on the day and deserved their win on a final score of 3-8 to 1-5 in favour of the home side.

Team: Adrian O’Driscoll, John Roche, Jeff Gowen, Colm Crowley, James Roche, Seamus Roche, Mark Burdett, Sean Linehan, Darragh O’Reilly, Gearoid Roche, Diarmuid Linehan, Brian O’Driscoll, Kevin Kiely, Denis Kiely, and Fergal O’Connell. Subs: Fionn Hess for James Roche, Eamon O’Reilly for John Roche, Dan Cooney for Jeff Gowen, Brian Lombard for Brian O’Driscoll.

Upcoming fixtures: Div. 1 Hurling on Thursday 7th April against Fermoy in Ballyhooly at 6.45 pm.

EGM

Following recent resignation of the club chairperson it has been agreed by the club executive that an EGM will be held on Monday, 11th April in the community hall. This meeting is open to all paid up members. Included in the agenda will be the election of a new club chairperson and a presentation by the development committee. Any nominations or motions to be included in the EGM need to be sent in writing to the secretary.ballyhooly.cork@gaa.ie before end of day Thursday, 7th April.

LOTTO

There was no winner of last week’s lotto draw for €4,200. The numbers drawn were 12,15 and 29. The 5 lucky dip winners of €20 each were Breda O’Connell, John Sweeney, Katie O’Connor, Shaun O’Mahony, and Mike Hickey.

The next draw will take place in Grindel’s on Monday, 18th April. We would continue to encourage as many as possible to use the online facility at Clubforce, or alternatively, tickets can be purchased in the shop, the Roundy House, Grindel’s, or your usual seller. Thank you most sincerely to all the lotto players, ticket sellers, etc your support is greatly appreciated in these difficult times. Remember that any profits made on sale of lotto tickets goes towards the upkeep of the facilities. As you can all see works are ongoing at improving the community sports field.

MAIN CLUB SPONSORS

We have joint sponsors, Ballyhooly Homes and Quintas, please support if you can. In these difficult times it is great to have this support from our sponsors.

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