Junior titles for Power and Fitzmaurice

The Clare Athletics Association Junior, Novice B plus Juvenile Cross Country Relays were held in heavy underfoot conditions on the lands of Patrick O’Dea, Clonlohan, Newmarket-on-Fergus last Sunday.

There were some top-class performances in what were very well-supported juvenile relays, with Ennis Track the star performers, finishing first in the U-8 girls’ and boys, third in the girls’ U-10, while taking gold in the boys’ U-10, U-12 and U-14.

Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare won gold in the girls’ U-12, silver in the boys’ U-10, U-12 and U-14 and bronze in the girls’ U-8 and U-14.

St Cronan’s won silver medals in both the girls’ U-12 and U-14 and bronze medals in the boys’ U-10.
Marian AC won silver medals in the girls’ U-10 and bronze in the girls’ U-12.

Kilmihil girls’ U-10 won gold medals, with St John’s winning the girls’ U-14 and Fergus AC taking silver medals in the boys’ U-8 Shannon AC, the host club, took bronze medals in the boys’ U-12 and Tulla AC took bronze medals in the boys’ U-14.

In the junior ladies’ 4,000m, for the second year in a row, Laura Power (Ennis Track) was a very impressive winner, leading all the way from start to finish, with Róisín Considine (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare) and Siobhán Nestor (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare) taking the silver and bronze medals ahead of Fiona Considine (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare) and Alva Morrissey (Ennis Track).

Karl Fitzmaurice (Shannon) went out hard from the start in the junior and novice B 6,000m and after the first of the three laps he started to open up a fine lead. Over the next two laps, the Shannon man was in total control and he captured both titles in fine style, with Stephan Rooney (Ennis Track) taking the silver medal in the junior men’s race, followed by Conor Madigan (St John’s). Conor won the silver medal in the novice B, with Domhnaill Rodgers (St John’s) in third spot.

The junior men’s team title went to Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare, with Padraigh Malone seventh, Jack Devitt eighth, Paul Devit ninth and Eoin Devereaux 11th, for a total of 35 points.

The novice B men’s inter-club title went to Ennis Track, with Noah McMahon sixth, Oisín Owens eighth, David O’Connor ninth and David O’Connor 12th, for a total of 35 points. St Mary’s were second on 55 points followed by Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare on 63 points.

Results
Juvenile inter-club relays
Girls’ U-8 4 x 250m
1 Ennis Track A (Ellen Morrissey, Elise Ryan, Ruth Leyden, Ailbhie Landy); 2 Ennis Track B (Neasa Ní Leachtain, Molly Pike, Ava Rochford, Alana Ní Adhastar); 3 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Ellen Carey, Ciara Ferguson, Eva O’Malley, Luisna O’Dea); 4 St Mary’s; 5 Marian.
U-10 4 x 250m
1 Kilmihil (Shauna O’Gorman, Laura Quinlivan, Aoifa McNamara, Niamh Burke); 2 Marian A (Emma O’Donoghue, Ciara Reynolds, Niamh Cassidy, Ruth Neylon); 3 Ennis Track (Ellie Pike, Kate Montwell, Róisín Cahill, Ciara O’Dell); 4 St Mary’s; 5 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Meadbh O’Malley, Annick Walsh, Sarah Looney, Aoibhnait O’Dea).
U-12 4 x 500m
1 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Gráinne Lynch, Daniela Svensson, Hannah Shannon, Amy Sexton);
2 St Cronan’s (Megan White, Leah O’Neill, Ellie Rochford, Ella McNamara); 3 Marian B (Ciara O’Brien, Chloe Neylon, Rachel Hartigan, Mia Sheehan); 4 Kilmihil (Sinéad Lillis, Niamh Conlon, Saskia Morrissey, Cliodhna Dennehy); 5 Marian A.
U-14 4 x 500m
1 St John’s (Aisling Kelly, Caoimhie Harvey, Siobhán Brew, Tara Bradley); 2 St Cronan’s (Alex O’Neill, Jennifer O’Neill, Kate Taylor, Amy Barrett); 3 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Caoimhie Hogan, Sinead Hogan, Áíne Keane, Elaine Shannon); 4 Marian; 5 St Mary’s; 6 Tulla; 7 Ennis Track.

Boys
U-8 4 x 250m
1 Ennis Track (Eoin Lahiff, Thomas McGuire, Luke Aherne, Martin Frawley); 2 Fergus (Darragh Killeen, Daire Hill, Sam Wragg, Daire Culligan); 3 Ennis Track B (Fawhad Akinwale, Paddy Nagle, Ian Williams, Cian Neylon); 4 Shannon; 5 BMOH.
U-10 4 x 250m
1 Ennis Track A (Sultan Akinwale, Mark Hanrahan, Matthew Power, Dylan Casey); 2 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Niall Hogan, Diarmuid Fahy, Sean Rynne, Cillian Keavey); 3 St Cronan’s (Noah McConway, Niall Murphy, John Conneally, Ian McNamara); 4 Fergus; 5 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare Oisín Sexton, Brendan Rouine, Liam Cotter, Eoin Hurley.
U-12 4 x 500m
1 Ennis Track A (James Mc Guire, Padraigh Cahill, Scott Cave, Lateef Akinwale); 2 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Paul Keane, John Murphy, Cillian O’Malley, Ben Whelehan); 3 Shannon (Eoin Guilfoyle, Stephan Casey, Eanna Crimmins, Craig McIntyre); 4 Tulla; 5 St John’s.
U-14 4 x 500m
1 Ennis Track (Jamie  Roche, Mark Collins, Stephan Maher, Cathal O’Brien); 2 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Eoin Looney, Sean Rouine, Niall Canavan, Patrick O’Rourke); 3 Tulla (Sean Murphy, David Meehan, Sean Cahill, Ronan Harrison); 4 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Zack Whelehan, Caoilfhionn O’Dea, Cian Shannon, Conor Malone); 5 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare (Conor Murphy, Oisín Looney, Seamus Hurley, Garry Twomey).
Junior ladies’ 4,00m
1 Laura Power (Ennis Track); 2 Róisín Considine (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 3 Siobhan Nestor (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 4 Fiona Considine (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 5 Alva Morrissey (Ennis Track).
Junior men’s 6,000m
1 Karl Fitzmaurice (Shannon); 2 Stephan Rooney (Ennis Track); 3 Conor Madigan (St John’s); 4 Domhnaill Rodgers (St John’s); 5 Noah McMahon (Ennis Track).
Teams
1 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare = 35 points.
Novice B men’s 6,000m
1 Karl Fitzmaurice (Shannon); 2 Conor Madigan (St John’s); 3 Domhnaill Rodgers (St John’s); 4 Fergal Grogan (St Mary’s); 5 Ambrose Heaghey (Kilnaboy.
Teams
1 Ennis Track = 35 points; 2 St Mary’s = 55 points; 3 Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare = 63 points.