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Hermitage B   1    West Clare United   4West Clare United went four goals clear in their match, following strikes from David Tubridy, Jason and Jamie Russell and Matthew Moloney. Hermitage pulled one back through substitute Michael Singleton.

SIXTEEN second-round games in the race for the Clare Junior Cup dominated the domestic soccer scene last Sunday.

THE Munster Athletics Association senior and novice road championships will take place this Sunday in Beaufort. There will be two races with the novice and senior ladies (two-mile) at 1pm, followed by the novice and senior men’s (four miles ) at 1.20pm.

THE village of Castleconnell attracted a record 422 runners, joggers and walkers for the second annual Castle-Clon 10K road race and walk held by Castleconnell Boat Club.

ENNISTYMON CBS’ U-19 basketball team are through to yet another All Ireland final in mid March in the National Arena in Tallaght.

THE FAI Futsal Cup began last Saturday in Dublin where Clare was represented by Lifford who were drawn in a very strong group.

WITH hopes abounding of a sizeable yield of titles, all of the 15 Clare boxers travelled to the Munster Youths Championships in Cork last weekend with an added incentive of a ticket to the national championships for the winners. However, there was much disappointment for the boxers from the Kilfenora and Ennis clubs and while five were victorious, many of the pre-championship bankers failed to live up to their promise.Twin brothers John and Simon McDonagh from the Ennis club have been unbeaten so far this season but both succumbed in their respective finals on Sunday. John went down 5-3 to the superb Aaron Ronan from the Glen Boxing Club in Cork, while Simon’s power and aggression could not counteract the accuracy and craft of reigning champion Michael McDonnell from St Paul’s in Waterford. He lost out on an emphatic 11-5 scoreline. Wayne Danaher, who hails from Lisdoonvarna and boxes out of the Ennis club, missed out narrowly in a pulsating …

LISSYCASEY and Kilmaley have been handed difficult tasks in the opening rounds of the 2011 senior football and hurling championships. They will face the defending champions, Doonbeg and Crusheen, respectively.The draws for the senior, intermediate and junior A hurling and football championships, all of which are run on a league system, were made at Tuesday’s March meeting of Clare County Board and they have thrown up a number of interesting groupings.In hurling, the semi-finalists from last year were seeded, which resulted in Clonlara, Cratloe, Sixmilebridge and Crusheen avoiding each other in the group stage.An open draw applied in football where, as per last year, the format for the knock-out stage is already known. The teams qualifying from group one will play group four, with group two and group three qualifiers meeting. This will also apply for senior B with the teams that finish third in their groups meeting and it will also be the system for the relegation play-off, with …