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BASKETBALL

Glory days for Pres Bray U19 Basketball Team with them taking the All Ireland Title on Thursday in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght. They were playing St. Malachy's of Belfast. The final score was 60 points to 51 in what was a very exciting and tense final. Lorcan Murphy was the MVP with a points total of 25. The team was co-captained by Jeff Mccann and Brendan O'neill (both 6th year).

David Mackin gave the best defensive display of the day in a game where all of the team were on top form. Congratulations to them all and many thanks to Mr. Fleming for managing the team and to Marie O'toole their coach. Team: Jeff Mccann, Brendan O'neill, Lorcan Murphy, David Mackin, Andy Bartley, Marc Lennon, Luke Gorman, Ash O'callaghen, Reece O'callaghen, Thomas Mcgrath, Dylan Terry and Peter Conroy.

Earlier in the week the 1st and 2nd years were in action against Templeogue College, with a favourable result for Pres.

RUGBY

The Junior Cup Team started off their Leinster Schools cup campaign with a close game against Wesley College. With the score 8 all at the three quarter stage there was all to play for with good defensive play from both teams. Pres managed to break through the Wesley defense with about seven minutes to go to score a try and bring the score to 13 - 8. In the tense final minutes of the game Pres managed to keep the Wesley pack at bay to emerge the winners.

They take on the winners of St Michaels -v- Castleknock in the next round on the 1st March. Eamon Wolohan and Darren Walsh were the try scorers with a penalty kick scored by Conor Byrne. Well done to all and best of luck in the next round. Special thanks to Mr. Conroy for his hard work and time spent with the team.

On Wednesday the 1st years were in action against Castleknock College with a win for the A's and a narrow defeat for the B's