Great performance from our U12s
U6 WELL KIDS
Well Kids continues on Tuesdays at 6pm on Astro.
U8 AND U10
Training continues on Tuesdays at 7pm (U8) and Thursday at 6.15pm (U10).
U12
Our U12s kicked off their league campaign on Thursday, 12th May when they welcomed Brickey Rangers to Ballyduff. Both teams put on a great exhibition of camogie with some fantastic skill and work rate. It was clear to see all the training our girls have been doing over the past few weeks is paying off as they put in a great performance in a very close and contested match. Unfortunately our girls just fell short in the end and Brickeys ran out winners on the night on a final score of Ballyduff 4-01 Brickey Rangers 5-5.
Well done girls on a mighty effort and big thanks to our coaches John Lynch, Therese Twomey and Rachel Foley for all their hard work behind the scenes. Onto the next one girls!
U12 panel v Brickey Rangers - Ava Kearney, Ciara O’Brien, Grace Drislane, Aoife O’Donovan (c), Deirdre O’Connor, Ella O’Donoghue, Blathnaid Landy, Leah Hartnett, Aoibhinn Barry, Aimee Kenny, Ciara O’Donovan, Kaela Fitzgerald, Meghan Lynch, Emma Casey, Amy Kenneally, Denise Martin and Molly Dooling.
Upcoming fixtures for our U12 season are as follows: Thursday, 26th May v St Mollerans (home), Thursday, 9th June v Mount Sion (away), Thursday, 23rd June v St Declans/ Ardmore (home), Thursday, 5th July v Lismore (away), Thursday 19th July v An Rinn (home), Thursday, 4th August v Abbeyside (away). All matches start at 6.30pm.
Best wishes also to our girls and coaches John Lynch and Therese Twomey who have done exceptional work looking after our U12s so far this season. Training for U12 continues Tuesday nights and Thursday nights at 6.15pm.
U14
Best of luck to our U14s and coaches Trevor Geary, Mag Barry and Jackie Hannon as they kick off their league campaign on Thursday, 19th May at home v Brickey Rangers. Training for U14 continues on Tuesday and Thursday nights at 6.45pm. Upcoming fixtures for U14 league as follows: Thursday, 2nd June away v Mount Sion. Thursday, 16th June home v St Mollerans. Thursday, 14th July away v St Declans. All matches are 6.30pm throw.
U16
Our U16 continued in their league winning ways with a victory over neighbours Tallow on Tuesday, 10th May. Our girls started slow in the first half but found their rhythm after 15 minutes with some excellent scores from our forwards
and some great defending by our backs.
The second half was all Ballyduff as our girls piled on the pressure on the Tallow defence. Our girls worked extremely hard and were fully deserving of their victory with the match finishing on a scoreline of Ballyduff 7-10 Tallow 1-04.
Well done girls on an excellent performance and big thanks to our coaches Shane Feeney, Breda Kenny, Willie Hogan and Martina
Hogan for all their work behind the scenes. That concludes the U16 league round robin until August (due to summer exams) however challenge matches will be held for U16s over the course of May, June and July.
U16 team v Tallow - Millie Feeney, Maebh Landy, Nora Ahern, Grace Kenny, Dayna Hannon, Ailish O’Donovan (0-01) (C), Sarah Barry, Niamh Ryan (2-05), Molly Kenneally (0-01), Ella O’Brien (1-00), Kate Ahern (2-01), Maeve Hickey, Mia Geary (1-00), Sibhe Collins (1-02), Sinead Branagh. Subs (all played) Abbie Feeney for Mia Geary, Lauren Drislane for Grace Kenny and Sinead Geary for Dayna Hannon.
U16 training continues Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6.30pm. Remaining fixtures for the U16 league are: Tuesday, 2nd August (home) v Cappoquin; Tuesday, 9th August (away) v Tallow. All matches are at 6.30pm throw.
MINOR LEAGUE
Our young minor team played their second league match on Thursday, 12th May when we travelled to neighbours Lismore. The match was played as 13-a-side and our girls started brilliantly and raced into a 3 point lead after five minutes. However Lismore came into the game half-way through the first half and picked off some great goals and points which left our girls with a mountain to climb in the second half. Lismore continued to torment our defence in the second half as they piled on the pressure. To their credit, our girls answered back with some great points and were extremely unlucky with a number of goal chances that just missed the target and brought some great saves from the Lismore goalkeeper.
In the end Lismore ran out comfortable winners on a scoreline of Lismore 6-08 Ballyduff 0-07 but our young stars can hold their heads high after putting in a gallant effort against an older, more physical outfit in Lismore. It’s great for our girls to get the experience of playing minor camogie with the majority of our current squad eligible for minor for 2 more years! The focus of minor this year for our club is all about development and giving the girls the experience of what minor camogie means.
Well done girls ye have done our club proud - onto the next one! Big thanks again to our coaches Shane Feeney, Breda Kenny, Martina and Willie Hogan for all their work behind the scenes.
Minor team vs Lismore: Millie Feeney, Nora Ahern, Maebh Landy, Katie Kenneally (JC), Ailish O’Donovan, Ellen Hogan (JC), Niamh Ryan, Maeve Hickey, Molly Kenneally, Kate Ahern, Emer Collins, Sibhe Collins, Grace Kenny. Subs used: Laura Kenny for Emer Collins. Absent - Sinead Branagh.
Minor training continues Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6.30pm. Remaining fixtures for Minor league are: home v An Rinn (time and date tbc).
New members are always welcome for any age group U6 to minor. Any queries, please contact any of our club coaches/committee or email us at secretary.ballyduffupper. waterford@camogie.ie.