U14 Hurlers struggle against Lisdowney
Tuesday night 24th April saw St. Martin’s U-14 squad travel to Lisdowney to take on their side in the Leaque game. The game almost failed to start with a refree misunderstanding however in fairness to Lisdowney a local ref was allerted and he duly stood in to accomadate the kids.
Lisdowney proved to be the stronger sides with scores being picked off in great style and they dominated in all areas of the field. St. Martin’s never gave up and the fought till the bitter end and showed the type of spirit that is alive and well in St. Martins.
Team;
Ciarán Brennan, Jack Nolan, Ciarán Fahy, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, Ciarán Cody, Adam Kelly, Conor Dowling, Dean Farrell, Jack Manning, Evan Stapleton, Matthew Cullen, David Baldwin, Padraig Buggy, Adam Comerford and Conor Maloney.
Subs;
David Baldwin, Joey Organ, Richard O’Shea. (all used).
Coaches; Tom Cullen, Michael Brennan, Andy Dowling & Martin Stapleton.
St. Martin’s Minors struggle again
A young and depleted St Martins Minors travelled to Glenmore for this fourth round league. This was their fifth trip to south Kilkenny this year from eight games and a total of 8 from 12 games between u-16 and minor.
The travelling and injuries seemed to take their toll on the team but they were still in with a shout at the break 1-8 to 1-5 without playing well.
In the second half they again failed to fire as a unit and lost out 2-17 to 2-7.
Team; Jason Shore, Steven Walsh, Alan Kelly, David Healy, Jack Dowling, Patrick Brennan, Conor Dowling, John Joe Kelly, Shane Kinsella, James Callanan, Adrian Farrell, Shane Dowling, Brian Quirke, Donal Shore, David Walsh.
Subs: Eoin Murphy, Tom Davies (Both used), Damien Egan, Ronan Tynan, Aidan Egan. Paddy Heffernan (injured)
U-16 Roinn B Hurling league
St Martin’s continued thier winning run with a hard fought game over Galmoy/Windgap. In a very even first half with both defences doing well Galmoy/Windgap held a slender lead at half time 1-5 to 1-4 with St. Martin’s goal coming from a well struck penelty. Galmoy/Windgap tacked on early points and a goal to move five points clear before a strong last 15 minutes saw St. Martin’s dig deep to win on a score line of 3-8 to 3-7.
Martin’s Minors lose out to more efficient Piltown
St. Martin’s lost their second minor B league match going down to Piltown by four points.
Despite being 1-8 0-7 down at the break, St. Martin’s would have fancied their chances with the use of the wind for the second half.
A slow start to the second period proved costly and they eventually came up short. Final score, St Martins 1-13 – 1-17 Piltown. They face Glenmore next in the league.
Team: Jason Shore, Eoin Shortall, Alan Kelly, Steven Walsh, Richard Teehan, Patrick Brennan, Tom Davies, John Joe Kelly, Shane Kinsella, Donal shore, Adrian Farrell, James Callanan, Shane Dowling, Damien Egan, Conor Dowling
Subs: Paddy Heffernan(used), Aidan Egan, Ronan Tynan.
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Martins come up short
St Martin’s minor hurlers fell to their first defeat of the season losing to Barrow Rangers by 1-15 to 1-14.
Having never really got going the home side were 0-11 to 0-5 down at the break and with 15 to go were 1-15 to 0-9 behind.
They rallied but came short in injury time.
St Martins; Jason shore, Eoin Shortall, Alan Kelly, David Healy, John Joe Kelly Patrick Brennan, Tom Davies, Adrian Farrell, Shane Kinsella, Conor Dowling, Donal shore, Jack Dowling, Shane Dowling, James Callanan, David Walsh.
Subs: Robert Reid, Richard Teehan (used), Paddy Heffernan, Eoin Murphy, William Trousdell, Damien Egan, Aidan Egan, Ronan Tynan.
St. Martin’s Minors welcome new Sponsor from Eurospar Castlecomer.
Eurospar Castlecomer has joined St. Martin’s Bord na nÓg and is now the main sponsor of St. Martin’s Minor Football and Hurling teams.
Eurospar Castlecomer will be officially launched as the Main Sponsor on 10th April next.
U14 footballers take on Castlecomer
Muckalee was the venue and Saturday evening 31st March was the date when St. Martin’s U14 Football team went head to head with Castlecomer in the Football League.
With a massively depleted squad St. Martin’s went into battle but against their neighbours and friends but Comer proved too strong for our young team. The first half was dominated by Castlecomer with some fine scores being landed on our Boys but St. Martin’s lads bounced back in a thrilling second half but it was too little too late. Comer ran out easy winners in the end.
Team;
Patrick Darcy, Jack, Nolan, Ciarán Fahy, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, Ciarán Brennan, Adam Kelly, Conor Dowling, Dean Farrell, Adam Grogan, Evan Stapleton, Matthew Cullen, David Baldwin, Ciarán Cody, Robert Dowling & Jason Comerford.
Coaches; Tom Cullen, Michael Brennan, Andy Dowling & Martin Stapleton.
Young saints go down fighting
A relatively young St Martins u-16 footballers lost to Mullinavat 3-12 to 1-4 with vats 3 goals coming in the last seven minutes after Martins earlier exertions had taken its toll.
At half time they trailed 0-8 to 1-4 but there after a number of wasted efforts came back to haunt them.
St Martins.
Conor Fahy, Thomas Downey, Jason shore, David Healy, David Walsh, Robert Reid, Eoin Murphy, John joe Kelly, Brandon Sheehan, tommy Quirke, Aaron Healy, Sean maher, Aidan Egan, Shane Dowling, Ronan Tynan.
Sub:
Loughlin Hogan
U6 Panel begin training
St. Martin’s U6 panel got together to begin training and learning the skills of the game at the weekend under the guidance of Niall Clancy, Nicholas Purcell, Danny Quirke and Liam Coogan.
There was a great turnout from the enthuastic young hurlers in Coon and we are looking forward to following their progress throughout the year.
