Fixtures: Saturday, September 14: SFL v Carrickmacross (Away) at 6pm; Under-14 FL Division One Semi-Final v Killanny (Home) at 12pm

Sunday, September 15: Under-16 HL Final v Carrickmacross at 12pm in Drumhowan

 

Monaghan Harps Lotto: Numbers 4, 9, 10 and 26. Jackpot of €1,700 not won. Residual prizes: €100 Fergus Coyle c/o himself; €40 Caoimhe McAleer c/o Cosy Bar; €40 Ann O’Kelly c/o Liadhan Treanor; €40 Patricia Sullivan c/o Barry Sullivan. Jackpot for Sunday, September 15 is €1,800 and Ann and Adrian Trappe are on duty. Lotto draw takes place in the clubhouse every Sunday night. All welcome.

 

Meeting: The club’s monthly meeting for September takes place this evening (Thursday) at 8pm.

 

Seniors: We fell to a 2-11 to 0-10 defeat against Ballybay in the SFC in Scotstown last Sunday. Our lads started brightly with points by Nicholas Treanor, Neil McAdam, Stephen Driver, Gareth Treanor, Shane Smyth and Emmett McArdle in the opening 17 minutes, but we were then reduced to 14 men and Ballybay finished the half strongly to lead by 1-7 to 0-6. Nicholas and Gary White kicked good points to keep us in touch, but Ballybay were able to increase their lead to six, before Emmett and Fearghal McMahon closed the gap back to four. Ballybay then struck a killer blow with their second goal and our only response was a point from a free by Neil. We have been drawn to play the winners of next Sunday’s game between Doohamlet and Magheracloone in Round 3B on Friday week (September 20).

Team and scorers: Cónall McKenna; Gareth Treanor (0-1), Niall Hahessy, Shane Coyle; Rónán Garvey, Conor Galligan, Nicholas Scott; Neil McAdam (0-2, 1f), Stephen Driver (0-1); Paul Rushe, Gary White (Capt., 0-1), Emmett McArdle (0-2); Dónal Hahessy, Shane Smyth (0-1), Nicholas Treanor (0-2, 1f).

Subs: Kevin Loughran for Rushe (21 mins), Aodhán Óg McAnespie for Scott (H-T), David Hughes for Garvey (34), Fearghal McMahon (0-1f) for N Treanor (45), Liam Hahessy for D Hahessy (50).

 

Breakfast morning: Our big breakfast morning took place last Sunday. Thanks to everyone who helped out and attended for making it a great success. Full details in next week’s notes and online.

 

U-14: Our Under-14 Division Five team put in a great effort in last Saturday’s league final, only to finish on the wrong side of a 9-8 to 6-11 thriller against Emerald Sarsfields. Colin Peppard (2-0) and Corey McArdle (1-2) did the scoring in the first quarter as our lads took a 3-2 to 2-2 lead, while Corey added 1-1 and Adam O’Neill, Lorcan O’Rourke and Killian Conlon hit a point each in the second period to leave the half-time score 5-4 to 4-6 in favour of the Blackhill/Oram amalgamation. A goal by Colin and points from Oisín Fagan and Seán Conway were our only scores of the third quarter, allowing a physically strong Emerald Sarsfields team to open up a lead of 8-5 to 5-8. Corey hit another goal in the final quarter and Adam, Colin and Zach Mallen all hit points, but our lads’ efforts to get back into the game were thwarted by our opponents’ goalkeeper and defenders. Well done to the players and their mentors Séamus McManus, Brendan Burns and Val Forde on a very encouraging year for this team.

Team and scorers: Brendan Óg Duffy; Seán Conway (0-1f), Aaron Coyle, Zach Mallen (Capt., 0-1); Adam O’Neill (0-2, 1f), Lorcan O’Rourke (0-1); Dylan Maguire, Corey McArdle (3-3), Colin Peppard (3-1).

Subs: Killian Conlon (0-1), Stephen Ward, Oisín Fagan (0-1f), Shane McCabe, Killian McAdam, Dáire Martin.

Our Division One league semi-final takes place at home to Killanny this Saturday at 12 noon.

 

Draw: We are taking part in a ‘Sportspersons Dream’ draw, which offers some amazing prizes, particularly for sports fans. Tickets are on sale now from club members and online – see link on our website.

 

Minors: Our Minor Football Championship semi-final against Magheracloone is due to take place on Saturday week (September 21) in Aughnamullen at 4.30pm.

 

Thanks: Thanks to everyone who helped out at a big day at Gavan Duffy Park last Saturday, when we hosted three juvenile finals and the ladies senior county final.

 

Sponsored walk: The juvenile club’s annual sponsored walk and fun morning takes place on Saturday, September 28. Sponsorship cards are in circulation now.

 

Hurling:

Juveniles: The U-16s league final against Carrick has been re-fixed for this Sunday at 12pm. Venue to be confirmed. The U-16 Championship semi-final will be re-fixed as a result. Training for all juveniles continues on Sunday mornings at 12pm.

County Minors: Hard luck to all involved with the Monaghan minors who lost out to Mayo in their All-Ireland final. A sterling effort was put in, and the great effort and progress hopefully won’t end there.

Seniors: Our seniors will play Craobh Rua, Camlough (Armagh) in the Ulster Junior Championship on Sunday, October 6.

Sportsperson’s Dream: Any club member still to receive tickets to sell for the Sportsperson’s Dream fundraiser should contact James Greenan & pick up tickets at next training session.