Club Presentation Night: is to be held this Saturday night in St. Mellans at 9.30pm. Awards will be presented to all areas of the club. Shortlisted for senior player of the year are: Niall McMeel, Mike Treanor & Mark Counihan. B player of the year is between Daniel Finnegan, Pauric Treanor & John McCarron. C player nominees are Paul McKenna (D), Gary Todd & Paul Donaghue. While D nominations are: Cormac Treanor, Stephen Smith & Damian McCarron.
Ulster League: We beat Bellaghy by 2 points last Saturday in an entertaining 2nd round of the Ulster league, 2-09 to 1-10. Trailing by 2 points at half time, 0-5 to 1-3, second half goals from Niall Coyle and Brendan Treanor secured our first victory in this year’s competition. Our team and scorers were: Ian Treanor; Michael McCrudden, Rory Treanor, Aidan Coyle; Mike Treanor, Niall Feely, Damian McRory; Pauric Treanor (0-1), Gary Feely; Niall Coyle (1-1), Padraig McKenna (0-2, 1f), Brendan Treanor (1-0); Daniel Finnegan (0-2), Gary Todd, Christopher McKenna (0-2f). Subs Used: Eoghan Kelly for Mike Treanor (24mins), Darren Todd for Michael McCrudden (37’), Mark Counihan (0-1) for Daniel Finnegan (51’), Justin Halligan for Brendan Treanor (53’) & Niall McQuillan for Gary Todd (58’). Our next game is away to Slaughtneil this Friday at 8.15pm.
New Secretary: We welcome our new club secretary, Ursula McKenna to her new position. Ursula can be contacted on 0864114027.
Registration: is open for the year and can be made payable through Brian Rafferty. Membership must be paid by March 31st. Players must have registration paid before playing.
Strictly DVDs: are now available to purchase and are available to buy at most local stores as well as St. Mellans for €15.
Party Bookings: Can be made for either bar. For booking contact 0861991150.
Lotto Jackpot now €4000: There was no winner of last week’s jackpot. The numbers drawn were: 6, 8, 13, 19. There were 4 no. match 3 winners each receiving €50: May McGivern, Kevin Treanor (B), Grainne McKernan & Josephine McMeel (Yearly Ticket). Sellers Prize: Mick Brady & Margaret Counihan. Next jackpot draw is worth €4000. Check team: Ursula’s.
Club Shop: The club shop is open each Friday evening between 7-8pm.
Camogie:
Juveniles: There will be no juvenile training until further notice.
Seniors: Training tomorrow night in Carrickroe hall. Could everyone please be there for 7.15, we are out again on Monday at 6.45. Attendance needs to improve. Please bring a friend. New players are welcome.
Presentation Night: The presentation night takes place on the 18th of February in St Mellans. Presentations to county players, Gaeil Linn players and player of the year. We encourage everyone to come along and support.
Ladies Football:
Committee : Committee meetings are occurring on Thursdays this year. We are asking all parents of children playing at any level to take into consideration the future of the ladies football club and to consider becoming a member of our committee .We are struggling with the numbers on our committee at the minute and as you all know behind every great club is a very hard working committee . Have you got 1 hour to spare a month ?? If so please contact Ursula Mc Kenna on 0868599749 or Sharon Mc Meel on 0872198005. REMEMBER: It’s your child/children that benefit from the hard work that goes on behind the scenes with our committee and as the saying goes ‘many hands make light work’.
Senior Training: Training every Wednesday night at 8pm and every Sunday morning at 10am. We encourage all players past & present to come along . All new faces also more than welcome . Text Ursula on 0868599749 if you cannot make it .
Presentations night: Takes place this Saturday night 18th Feb in St.Mellans. We ask all Minor & Senior players to make an effort to come along.
Handball:
Ulster Championships. Eamon Todd and Christopher Mc Kenna played their Ulster Junior B Singles semi-final last Wednesday night. In taking the first game in some speed Christopher won it 21-9, but Eamon composed him self and stamped his authority on the second winning it 21-14. And so going into the 3rd and final game it was all to play for, Christopher ran into an early lead 8-2 but Eamon got back into serve several times and began to claw back only to turn on his ankle at 10-6 down, Eamon didn’t play his best from there on and missed some uncharacteristic shots and so Christopher closed out the game and match 21-7, well done Christopher and good luck in the final, its on the 18th of February at 2pm but venue TBC.
Then on Friday evening after the dust had settled the boys team up together in the doubles (also Junior “B”) against Marcus Sheridan & Shane Briody from Cavan. This turned out to be a straight forward enough affair as they won the match 2-0 on a score line of 21-17, 21-14 well done boys, the final is on February the 25th also 2pm venue TBC.
Ulster U21 Doubles. Well done to Christopher Mc Kenna(D) and his Harps partner Terry Mc Elvaney representing the county on winning their Ulster U21 Semi-Final in the Harps alley early Sunday morning against Antrim men Mark Rainey & N O’ Cairellain on a score line of 21-6l, 21-1, good luck in the final.
County Senior Singles Finals. The remaining finals that we have representatives in will all be played on the 25th of February in St.Mellans the Nov4, Nov3 and the Junior final remember all photo’s must be into county pro via his email. Also hard luck to John Treanor(T) on losing his junior semi-final against Brendan Finan of Tydavnet 21-10, 9-21, 14-21, almost another all club county final but not to be.
County Senior Doubles. A list of the senior county doubles from Nov4 up to Senior are on the notice board in St.Mellans it has began this week but please all check their fixtures as not to miss any games thank you.
Ulster Open Championships. A large crowd of people from all over the province descended onto St.Mellans at the weekend to witness the conclusion of the Men Open Doubles Championship, after the semi-finals were played it left Paul Brady & Michael Finnegan of Cavan against Ricky Mc Cann & Seamus O’ Tuama of Antrim, the Cavan’s men experience proved too strong as they won 21-9, 21-15, and all young ones watching on witnessed what can be achieved if the time and practise is put in, a pure master class in skill, speed and power, in the Minor final we had county winners in Darren Doherty and Darren Byrne against Armagh pairing of Ciaran Duffy & Conal Mc Cavitt 21-18, 21-13, well done boys and good luck in the All Ireland Semi’s.
Senior Club Championships. The club singles and doubles are going well and more or less on target so keep it up, remember play as per fixture and winners write your name into the next round.
Juvenile Club Leagues. Still on going the leagues are starting to take shape now but it not too late to make that 4th spot boys and girls so keep at it, remember write all results in and mark of games coaches. Some suggested the rule to give 5 serves each to each player time about with both players able to score points either serving or receiving this would make sure all get ball action, we leave it up to each coach.
Cuman Na Munscoil. Well done to all the children of the parish who represented their national schools in handball in St.Mellans last Sunday morning in Cuman na munscoil, yet again this proved to be another enjoyable day for all the young players. We had club players in all finals but unfortunately no winners. In the U11 Singles Ryan Harnet representing Coracrin lost to Eoghan Mc Ginnity St.Marys 11-8, 11-2, U11 Doubles Conor Mc Quiad & Kareth Keenan Deravoy Ns lost to Jakub Szkup & Konrad Koval St.Marys 11-1, 11-1, in the U13 Singles Aaron Mohan for Edenmore lost to his old nemesis Ryan Mooney St.Marys 11-10, 11-8, and in the U13 Doubles Cormac Mc Kenna & Finbarr Mc Ginn also Edenmore lost to Justas Dinbiskus & Caolan Myles St.Marys 11-7, 11-2, also our solitary girl on the day was Catherine Finn representing the U11 girls.
Juveniles County Doubles. A list of the juvenile doubles that have been entered into the county championship is on the notice board at St.Mellans, get practising. All games will for all age groups be run off in St.Mellans on Sunday coming February the 19th so this will be a very busy days play and should start @ 11am sharp as there are a lot of games to get through. We also ask as many members as possible to come down on the day to help, thank you.
Get Well Soon. The club and all at St.Mellan’s would like to wish a speedy recovery to one of our former club members Austin Mc Kenna, having been our and the county’s secretary for many years he is now the Ulster Handball Secretary. Lets hope to see you back shortly sorting us all out Austin, get well soon from all in the club.
Prize Draw. We will be approaching club members if they would be interested in buying a ticket for the handball council, there are some brilliant prizes for the individuals and also for the club, all will be explained before purchasing.
By michael Tue 14th Feb
