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Castleisland 13   Scariff 12 SCARIFF lost out to a strong Castleisland side by the narrowest of margins in Craven’s Field in Scariff on Sunday.Castleisland started very strong and had the Scariff pack under huge pressure, with a series of scrums on the Scariff line. Scariff soaked up the early pressure but eventually Castleisland, with the aid of a strong wind, broke through the Scariff defence to score in the corner. A penalty late on in the first half left the half-time score 8-0 to the visitors.In the second half, Scariff went on the attack from the outset. With most of the possession throughout the half, they were rewarded with a try from James Kelly after good passing between the backs and forwards. Kelly converted his own try, leaving the score 8-7 after 10 minutes.Poor concentration in defence allowed Castleisland in for a second try midway through the second half, extending their lead to 13-7. However, Scariff reacted quickly with Colin …

ENNISTYMON Vocational School emerged as tournament winners in the three-team Clare basketball tournament at Ennistymon on Tuesday.They now go on to regional level to face teams from the rest of the North Munster area at a date to be decided.The afternoon tournament was keenly contested and all games were unpredictable right up to the final quarter.Ennistymon VS 29   Ennis Community College 20 AFTER a sluggish, low-scoring first quarter Ennistymon found their feet and with Roma Byrne pitching in with six points they held a 12-8 half-time advantage.Ennis came storming back in the third quarter with strong play from Sean Weir and Badr Jdair. John Dillon took more control at that point for Ennistymon and with Skerritt and McNulty rebounding well, Ennistymon edged ahead 29-20 at the end.Ennistymon VS 43   Kilrush CS 39 ENNISTYMON had to play back-to-back games and Kilrush looked sharper and more aggressive working the fast break to telling effect with Cian Murray, Conor Downes, and Kevin Looney …

Kilkee Community College 3-9   Kilrush Community School 2-8 The ladies football Clare senior C schools finals took place last Thursday in Cooraclare with Kilkee Community College beating Kilrush Community School in an exciting final. A strong wind dictated the flow of the game and Kilkee capitalised on this to the full in the first half. An exceptional performance in attack by Shauna Harvey saw her rack up 2-5 (0-2f) before the break, while Olive King contributed three points. Amy Keane took a great goal to boot. Kilrush goalie Hazel Baumann was very good and put in several blocks to deny a very goal hungry attack. In fairness to the Shamrocks, they worked very hard to bring the game up field and some good performances through the middle via Sinead Burke, Roisin O’Looney, Aine O’Looney and Aoife O’Gorman saw a hard fought 2-2 being accumulated to keep the Kilrush girls in contention. Aoife Carraig pointed first for Kilrush, a solid Aine …

Clonlara girl, Deirbhile Ryan will travel to Glasgow this weekend to compete in the School’s Combined Events International. A pupil at Gael Cholaiste Luimni and a member of Nenagh AC, Deirbhile qualified to compete with the Irish junior team when she finished in third place in the All-Ireland.She will be competing in the hurdles, shot putt, high jump, 800m and long jump.

Rice College, Ennis, will play Coláiste an Spiorad Naomh from Bishopstown in Cork in the Corn Iognaid Rís, Munster colleges U-16½C hurling final at Charleville next Wednesday at 1.30pm. Neither school has ever won this title.

St Flannan’s 5-7   St Mary’s, Nenagh 4-10 IN a match in which the teams were level on six occasions, with the lead changing hands regularly, a draw was a fair result when St Flannan’s played St Mary’s from Nenagh in the Munster Colleges Senior A Camogie Championship final at Newmarket on Saturday.The tie produced a very high standard of play with some excellent individual performances. There were occasions when each side looked to be taking control and the visitors were in that position when they went four points clear inside the last 10 minutes.They were still two clear as the game entered the final minute of normal time. St Flannan’s captain, Nikki Kaiser, proved to be the hero for her team with points in the 60th and 62nd minutes to ensure a second chance for the Ennis school.Points were exchanged in the opening two minutes before three converted frees by Bríd Quinn had the Nenagh school three clear by the …

  Hermitage A 2   Shannon Olympic A 1 SHANNON Olympic A were beaten in the Premier Division at home on Sunday by Hermitage A by 2-1. Despite starting the game better and looking the superior side, Olympic gave away two goals in seven minutes of the first half and this cushion was enough for Hermitage to see out the game and head back to Ennis with all three points.Ger Dullaghan was the star of the show for Hermitage, scoring first from the penalty spot after Liam Meaney was fouled in the Olympic box on 30 minutes by Jason Regan. Dullaghan doubled his tally on 37 minutes when his speculative effort from 35 yards took a wicked bounce and evaded Gary McGettrick in the Olympic goals.Olympic created plenty of chances throughout the game, most notably when a Sean O’Connor effort was cleared off the line and an Ian Hogan shot, which came off the post but a combination of poor finishing …

THE Clare Youths side will travel to Galway on this Sunday to play the Connacht outfit in the inter-youths cup. A win for Clare will guarantee them a place in the next stage of the competition as they have already defeated the other team in the group, Roscommon. Sunday’s match will kick off at Terryland Park at 2pm.Clare won’t finalise their team for this important tie until Sunday morning. This is due to the involvement of Avenue in the National U-17 Cup on Saturday when they play Pike Rovers and quite a number of their team are part of the Clare panel. They include goalkeeper, Nathan Murray, Paddy O’Malley, Kaylan O’Loughlin, Dylan Casey and Nicki Twumasai.Due to his overseas commitments, Casey wasn’t available for the team’s first-round 1-0 win over Roscommon.Clare played Galway twice in last year’s competition. After a 2-2 draw in the group stage, Clare beat their neighbours comfortable in the quarter-final before losing out to Kilkenny in …