Tie-breaker decides draughts final

The county Community Games draughts competitions for U-10, U-12 and U-14 took place on Saturday last in St Joseph’s Secondary School, Tulla.
The co-ordinator was Sean McNamara with the support of all the Tulla Community Games committee and scorekeepers were Áine O’Callaghan and Kevin McSweeney. The standard was extremely high and an extra round of games was needed to decide the outcome after a number of matches finished level.
This is the first time in 25 years that Sixmilebridge/Kilmurry was not represented in any of the categories. In the U-10 competition only three teams took part. Tulla beat An Droichead to progress to the final where they beat Quin/Clooney 15-5.

In the U-12 competition six teams took part. In the first round Inch/Kilmaley/Connolly beat Quin/Clooney and Ennis St John’s beat An Droichead A. In the semi-finals Ennis St John’s beat Inch/Kilmaley/Connolly and Tulla beat An Droichead B. An Droichead won the bronze medals from Inch/Kilmaley/Connolly by the narrowest of margins.
In the final Tulla and Ennis St John’s were level on 10 points each so they had to play one game each to decide the winners. It finished 7-3 to Ennis St John’s after some extremely close games.
In U-14, Ennis St John’s qualified for Munster unopposed. Ennis and Tulla will represent Clare in the Munster finals in Tralee on March 30.

RESULTS
U-10: 1. Tulla – Eoin Donnellan, Rory O’Sullivan, Jennifer Nicholas, Eabha McInerney, Eanna Culloo, Conor McCormack, Sadhbh McGrath; 2. Quin/Clooney – Niall Murphy, Eoin Lynch, Noah McConway, Cormac O’Keeffe, Daire Meehan, Darren Lynch; 3. An Droichead – Ruadhan Quinn, Sean Crotty, Oran Keenehan, Eimear Quinn, Ben Murnane.
U-12: 1. Ennis St John’s – Brian Crowley-Hayes, Elise Pyne, David McNicholas, Tara McInerney, Nathan Stackpoole, Grace O’Halloran; 2. Tulla – Liam McInerney, Stephen Moloney, Orna Mulconroy, Dualta McGrath, Ronan McGrath, Stephen Minogue, Wiktor Murphy; 3. An Droichead B – Darragh Moloney, Joe Howard, Danny Devine, Eoghan Quinn, Cian McLoughlin; 4. Inch/Kilmaley/Connolly – Evan Forde, Brian Barry, Jamie Clancy, Conor Corcoran, Jamie Grace.
U-14: 1. Ennis St John’s – Manus Doherty, Gerard Kavanagh, Sean Benson, Cian Gormley, Darren Hayes, Suzi Haziri.

Tag rugby
The draw for the tag rugby U-14 competition was made last week.
The semi-final pairings are Clarecastle-Ballyea A v Quin-Clooney B; Clarecastle-Ballyea B v Quin-Clooney A.
In the U-11 competition Clooney-Quin will play Clarecastle-Ballyea.

Badminton
The badminton finals were held at Clonlara on Saturday with Eamonn Ryan as the co-ordinator.

Results
Girls U-15:
1. An Droichead – Katie Moloney, Anna Spaight, Sadhbh Fennessy, Aine O’Grady, Amy English, Kate Gleeson.
2. Killaloe – Lynda Daly, Rachel Daly, Susan Daly, Aoife Power, Rosaline Ryan, Anna Ryan.
3. Clonlara – Roisin Powell, Chloe Ryan, Hannah Horgan, Leah Hawes.
4. Broadford – Aoife O’Brien, Niamh Mulqueen, April O’Regan, Laura O’Connell, Maya Marsh McMahon.
Boys U-15
1. An Droichead – Niall Moloney, David O’Shea, David Casey, Alan Finnin, Stephen Howard.
2. Clonlara – Brian Mc Namara, Aidan Moriarty, Tom Power, Mick Stritch, Jathan Mc Mahon.
3. Kilmihil – Cathal Murray, Sean Lineen, Gearoid O’Grady, Ciaran Downes, Ben Egan.

Swimming
Ennis Community Games will be holding their area swimming finals on Thursday, March 7, at the Ennis Leisure Complex at 5pm.
All entrants must register beforehand. Registration will be accepted from 4.15pm until 4.50pm.
Age categories for the following events are: freestyle (frontcrawl) (U-8, U-10, U-12, U-14 and U-16); backstroke (U-10, U-12, U-14 and U-16); breaststroke (U-12 and U-14) and butterfly (U-14 and U-16).

DATES TO REMEMBER
Friday, March 1 – Judo – Ennis at 7pm.
Friday, March 1 – Closing date for entries for choir, culture corner, cycling.
Saturday, March 2 – Pitch and putt at Clare Road club, Ennis at 9am.
Saturday, March 2 – U-13 cross-country and U-10 cross-country relays – Lees Rd at 11am.
Sunday, March 3 – Tag rugby at St Flannan’s college at 10am.
Friday, March 15 – Choir at Sixmilebridge GAA Hall at 7pm.
Friday, March 15 – Culture corner at Sixmilebridge GAA Hall at 7pm.
Saturday, March 16 – Cycling at Quin NS at 2pm.
Friday, March 22 – Quiz at St Flannan’s College at 7pm.
Sunday, March 24 – Talent at Sixmilebridge GAA Hall at 9am.
Saturday, March 29 – Duathlon at Quin NS field at 2pm.
Saturday, March 30 – Munster finals at Tralee.
Friday, April 5 – Mixed distance relays at Cooraclare GAA Field at 6pm.
Monday, September 16 – Closing date to submit HSE Community Games healthy events.