Clara GAA Notes
Under 12 Hurling League
Clara travelled to Rath on Wednesday evening to play Drumcullen in the final round of the under 12 hurling league and came away with a great win playing some fine open hurling. Clara clocked up an impressive score-line against a big physical Drumcullen team. Full time score: Clara 5-16 – Drumcullen 1-05
Clara Team:Adam McCloskey, Dion Conroy, Adam Carroll, Steven Falsey, Kai Dunne, Alex Egan (0-01), Eoin Gavin, Jack Reynolds (1-02), Thomas Devine (1-01), Lee Tierney (1-00), Cormac Delaney(0-06),Patrick Phelan (1-05), Blake Ryan, Dillion Taylor (1-01), Aodhán Moran, Adam O Keefe, Aaron Wynne, Noah Egan and Kian Handy.
Thanks to their mentors Noel Gavin, Willie Reynolds, Patrick Phelan and Sean Nolan.
Junior B Football Championship Semi-Final Refixture
Clara made their way over to a well prepared Tubber pitch on Thursday evening to play Durrow in the refixed game after the official on the day made a score error in the original game. In front of a big crowd of supporters we made it hard on ourselves in the first half despite creating plenty of chances. A goal by Tony Dalton from a rebounded penalty on the stroke of half time was the killer blow for Durrow leaving it 1-05 to 0-05 after 30 minutes. At the break we regrouped knowing that we hadn’t played well in the first half. We came out a different team in the second half and we never looked like losing this game. As has being the case all year we had a mixture of young talented footballers and some experienced ones. We also scored 1-05 in the second half whilst playing fast open football and our back line looked extremely tight for the full game as we gave away very few scoring chances.
We ran out very comfortable winners on a score-line of: Clara 2-10 Durrow 0-07. The Clara Team was : Mark Fallon, Padraig Henry, Chris Dwyer, Dermot Doolan, james Fleming, Carl Stewart, Shane Grennan, Sean Nolan, Willy Fleming, Johnny Hanamy, Enda Dunne (0-3), Geroge Robbins (0-2), Padraig Moran (1-0), Tony Dalton (1-01), James Stewart (0-4 2f)
Nigel Monaghan for Johnny Hanamy, Michael Falsey for Padraig Henry,Colin Flanagan for Padraig Moran, Brian Minnock for Shane Grennan, Gerard Rabbitte for James Fleming
Division 3 Hurling League Semi-Final
Clara made the short trip over to Tubber on Sunday evening to play Tullamore in the Division 3 hurling semi final. We came away with a fully deserved win on a scoreline of: Clara 2-15 -Tullamore 0-07
The Clara Team was: Darren Fleming, Martin Fleming, John Ledwith, James Fleming, Liam Monaghan, Lorcan Hiney, Pa Smith, Stephen Deehan, Darren Scanlon, Steven Buckley (0-4), Alan Cronin (capt.), Marius Stones, Joey Deehan (0-9 5f, 1 ‘65), Barry Cushen and Stephen O’Brien (2-01).
Subs: Sean Nolan (0-1) for Loran Hiney, Shane Grennan for John Ledwith, Willy Fleming for Marius Stones and Willie Byrne for Barry Cushen
Scorers:
Joey Deehan 0-09 (0-05 frees, 0-01 65)
Steven O Brien 2-01
Steven Buckley 0-04
Sean Nolan 0-01
Fixtures
Saturday 27th Sept – Under 16 Football Championship Final – Clara v Na Fianna or Ferbane/Belmont in O’Connor Park at 11.30am
Sunday 28th Sept – Senior Football Championship Semi-Final – Clara v Rhode in O’Connor Park at3.30pm
Monday 29th Sept – Minor Football Championship – Clara v Rhode in Clara at 8pm
WEEKLY CLUB LOTTO
Lotto results Saturday 20th September. The numbers drawn were: 7 – 25 – 26 – 28. There was no Jackpot winner. We had 1 match 3, Catherine Cronly, who will receive €150. Next week’s Jackpot is €4250 and the draw will be held in Cowens.
