Following the heavy rain last week, there was a lot of pitch inspections on last Friday evening to see if games would go ahead, and thankfully most of them did go ahead as planned. The U8s made the long journey out to Man O War for their game, while the U9s made the shorter trip to St Kevins College to play Ballymun. Both teams put in good performances in difficult conditions. In the Bogies the U10s hosted a blitz competition between ourselves, Na Fianna and Peregrines. There were some great games and all the kids went home with well deserved medals from the day. Our U11 footballers also recorded a good win away to Round Towers in Clondalkin.
Our U13s also played in the Bogies against Vincents in the football league. Our lads put in a great display in awful weather conditions and ran out winners 8-11 to 2-8. This leaves us just one point of 2nd place with one game left in the league. This game is away to Ballinteer in two weeks time, so hopefully the lads will push on and secure promotion. The U16 hurling game on Saturday afternoon was called off by Faughs. This was to be our lads last game of the season in the league. They have finished in 3rd place in division 2 and can now look forward to the championship final next Saturday in Parnell Park.
The big game of the day on Saturday was the U14 Camogie championship final against Vincents in Russell Park. The girls were slow to get going in the 1st half but put in a great display in the 2nd and were very unlucky to lose out by just 2 points. This was a disappointing end to what was a great year for this team who also lost out in the Feile final in O’Toole Park in April. They are however still in the hunt for league promotion.
On Sunday we had two big football championship games. The U15s were away to Naomh Olaf in their semi final. It was a game in which we never really got going and we were well beaten by a very strong home team. We wish them all the best in the final. The minors were in quarter final action in the Bogies against Na Fianna. In contrast to the U15s our lads hit the ground running and never let up, in the end winning out by 1-14 to 1-8 to qualify for the semi final in a fortnight’s time.
