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U-14s compete in Marion Keane tournament

ST Joseph’s Doora-Barefield GAA grounds in Gurteen was the venue for the conclusion of the Clare county U-14 ladies’ football trials last Saturday. Four teams competed for the Marion Keane Memorial Cup and Shield. The tournament and trials ran over the last four weeks.

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St Anne’s narrowly defeated by Dungarvan

Dungarvan CBS 3-7St Anne’s, Killaloe 2-7 ST Anne’s, Killaloe bowed out of the race for the Munster colleges senior B hurling championship (Corn Phádraig) at Cashel on Wednesday when they went under to Dungarvan CBS in a great contest at Cashel.

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Onwards and upwards for Ennistymon CBS

CBS Ennistymon U-19 basketball had a comfortable 54 to 27 victory over St Colmcille (Ballyshannon) in their first play-off game in Ennistymon on Saturday last in the National Colleges U-19 basketball competition. In the second game, they squared up to a very determined Castleblaney team and only two points separated the sides at the end of the third quarter. Ennistymon racked up a 10-point gap in the fourth, thanks to some tremendous work from the Kinch brothers, to give CBS a comfortable win 47 to 32.St Joe’s (Derry) were next up and were very impressive in their previous two games. Derry got off to  a lightning start and were dominating the rebounds offensively and defensively and led at half-time 32 to18. In the third quarter, Ennistymon started to get the ball inside to their big boys, Ciarán Devitt and Ronan Linnane, and both stepped up to the mark contributing 14 points between them. In the fourth quarter, the crowd were …

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Senan’s win bottom-of-table clash

St Senan’s 29   Ballincollig 9 In this tense Division 1 bottom-of-the-table clash between two teams who needed a victory to give them a chance of avoiding relegation, the Clare side came out on top.Both teams started with some nervous play that saw a few early errors and infringements. It was Ballincollig who benefited first when they won and converted a penalty after just four minutes to take the lead.

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McGinley takes bronze at nationals

Clare athletes took home several medals from the Athletics Association of Ireland juvenile B cross country U-11 to U-19s plus inter-county relays for U-12s and U-14s, plus intermediate and masters men’s and ladies’ championships, which were held in Alsaa, Dublin, on Sunday.

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Outplayed by sharper Kerry

Kerry 0-13 Clare 1-7 Better that Clare received an alarm call last Saturday in Killarney than next Sunday in Carrick-on-Shannon. That’s one of the few pluses the county footballers took home from the 2011 McGrath Cup final. Don’t take too much notice of the final scoreline. Clare were outplayed in most sectors and could have lost by up to 10 points. as Kerry kicked a dozen wides and were without several of last year’s championship panel. Gary Brennan was definitely a huge loss to Clare, though. Without the Clondegad midfielder, they were totally outplayed in that sector, where only Cathal O’Connor made any inroads. Of equal concern was the manner in which the Clare attack malfunctioned. David Tubridy, Rory Donnelly and Alan Clohessy found that the Kerry full-back line was a much hardier line than what they had encountered recently from UCC, CIT and Waterford. That said, the quality of ball kicked into them was very poor. It was often …

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