SOME HEAVY HITS
WHAT A DAY IN CROKE PARK!
Castlelyons U12s and 10s travelled to Croke Park on Tuesday, 11th for the Croke Park activity day, taking part in a blitz on the hallowed turf, playing three matches, against Erins Own of Waterford, Toomevara of Tipperary and Mungret of Limerick. The lads played very well and everyone got a great run out against some tough opposition.
A fantastic experience for everyone involved and a day not to be forgotten soon. Hopefully one day some of them can return there wearing the blood and bandage. A special thanks to Declan Martin Carpentry Services for supplying the boys with zip-tops for the occasion.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
Our Intermediate hurlers travelled to Carrigaline last Sunday in the Division 3 Hurling League. The home side started the brighter on a calm, cool afternoon. They scored the first 2 points before Alan Fenton found the target from a free. Alan scored 2 more frees to leave it 0-5 to 0-3 after 12 minutes. James Kearney was in front of his man and slotted over a nice point after a quick delivery from Keith O’Leary to score our first point from play.
The scores came a bit easier for Carrigaline and they got on top in the middle of the field. We conceded a couple of soft scoreable frees and when a long free from 80 yards found its way to the Castlelyons net it knocked the wind out of our sails. Oscar Hallihan did extremely well and deservedly scored 2 points from play in quick succession to leave us trailing 1-12 to 0-09 at half-time. Carrigaline dominated the 3rd quarter and outscored us 9 points to 3. Only Alan Fenton raised white flags for us in this period.
Credit to our lads they fought back and scored three goals. One from Leon Doocey and two from David Morrison. The deficit was too great to claw back however and Carrigaline scored the last two points of the game to leave the final score 3-13 to 1-24 in their favour. A disappointing day at the office but we will be back again. It was good to see Eoin Maye back making his first appearance of the year after a sabbatical in Australia and having broken his wrist while hurling down under.
Team: J Barry, C McCarthy, C Barry, R Feeney, S Moroney, L Sexton, D Spillane, K O’Leary, B O’Donovan, P Roche (0-1), A Fenton (0-8f), L Doocey (1-0), D Morrison (2-0), J Kearney (0-2), O Hallihan (0-2). Subs: E Maye for B O’Donovan, R Fenton for P Roche, C O’Neill for C McCarthy, L Moroney for D Spillane.
JUNIORS RUE MISSED CHANCES
We made the trip to Riverstown Thursday evening last week to play Sarsfields in the East Cork League. Conditions were good on a clear, cool evening to play under the flood lights. It was a great opportunity to get game time into guys and we used a total of nine subs throughout the game.
We started well, racing into a 0-4 to no score lead. David Morrison with a nice point and a delightful sideline cut by Brian O’Donovan. Sars really came back into the game though and began to win breaks from puck outs. A couple of turnovers in our backline gave them scoring opportunities that they were quick to pounce on. They were 0-8 to 0-4 after 20 minutes.
Castlelyons kept the pressure on but wides and missed goal chances left us thinking of what could have been. Alan O’Regan and David Morrison both trying to raise green flags but their efforts unluckily shot wide. Dunny was on-song from the placed balls though and scored two more before the short whistle to leave it 0-10 to 0-08 to the home side.
Changes rang galore at the break - with an intermediate game a couple days later lads needed to be rested. Shane Flynn didn’t take long to settle in with a fine point while under pressure on the 45 yard line.
Games turn on fine margins and such was the case this night as well. The hard-working Cees Kouwenberg was fouled in the box but Jack Waters’ effort fired over the bar for only a point. Sars found an overlap from the resulting puckout and ran through on goal. The Castlelyons defence did well to dispossess the Sars attacker but the rebound hit off a Castlelyons man’s leg to roll into our net.
We kept fighting however. Cees went on the frees and kept hitting the target. Young Matthew Rosner scored a fantastic long range effort to help reduce the gap to a goal. The game was frantic now and there were some heavy hits going in.
Sars had 2 men sent off in the final minutes for mouthing at the referee and it allowed us to sneak back in to leave a point in it with time nearly up. Eoin Barry made a run up the field only to be taken
out on the Sars 65 near the sideline. Cees’ shot just went wide and the referee blew the final whistle to leave the final score 0-17 to 1-15.
Team: G O’Neill, E Barry, L Moroney, C O’Neill, J Healy, C McCarthy, S Moroney, P Roche, R Feeney, S Cotter, D Spillane, B O’Donovan (0-7,0-6f, 0-1sl), D Morrison (0-1), C McGann, A O’Regan. Subs: C Kouwenberg (0-5f) for C McGann (ht), G O’Keeney for D Morrison (ht), J Waters (0-1p) for D Spillane (ht), S Flynn (0-2) for R Feeney (ht), M Rosner (0-1) for B O’Donovan (ht) D Morrison for C O’Neill (ht) O Morrison for A O’Regan (40 mins).
UPCOMING FIXTURES
Junior: Challenge game v Tallow in Tallow at 7.15pm on Thursday 20th. U12: Monday 24th v Killeagh at 6.30pm in Castlelyons. U16: Sunday, April 23rd - football v St Catherines at 13:00 in Castlelyons. U18: Wednesday, April 26th - Hurling v Ballygarvan at 18:30 in Castlelyons.
LOTTO JACKPOT €20,000
Numbers drawn on 17th were 3, 18, 22, and 25. There was no winner of the jackpot. Lucky Dip winners were Alan Waters, Killian Smith, Tim and Mary O’Sullivan, Clodagh Barry, Shane Fitzgerald, Ger McCarthy, Norma Milward and Chris O’Sullivan. Next week’s jackpot is still a huge €20,000. Make sure to buy your ticket to be in with a chance to win. Next draw will take place on Monday, 24th April at 8pm in the community centre.
SPONSORS
Our main sponsor is Zeus Packaging. We would like to thank them for their continued support.