Busy Week on Juvenile Front

Corn Mhichíl Uí Mhóráin winners: L-R, Dominique Gacek, Matthew Walsh, Tom Flynn, Shane Crowley, Ayrton Doyle, Charlie Lavin and James Buckley.

Plenty of activity for our teams over the week with the U13 hurlers travelling to Ballineen on Monday, June 17^th to play St Marys. They produced a battling display against a stronger outfit with Shane Murray scoring five points for the Blues. To Bantry’s credit they kept going right to the end with some great defending but lost out to the lads from Ballineen-Enniskeane.

Team: James Crowley, Charlie Lavin, Tom Flynn, Oisin Bennett, Shane Buckley, Billy Foley, Luke O’Shaughnessy, David O’Sullivan, Shane Crowley, Michael Cronin, Killian Crowley, James Buckley, Timmy O’Driscoll, Shane Murray, Patrick Barry.

Our U16 hurlers had their first outing in over six weeks when they played Ibane Gaels in Timoleague. Lack of match practice was always going to be a problem for the Blues and it showed when the Timoleague-Barryroe combination notched up a good lead by half time with Bantry scoring just four points, James Lavin and Sean Hodnett from play and two frees from Tim Foley.  

The second half proved a completely different story with Bantry outscoring their opposition by 1-06 to two pointed frees. However the slow start and errors of the first half were too much to turn around and the home team ran out winners by eight points. The second half display was encouraging with Kieran Daly and Killian O’Sullivan to the fore in defence and Sean Hodnett and Shane McCarthy standing out especially in attack.

Team: Sean Cronin, Robyn McCarthy, Killian O’Sullivan (0-1), Owen O’Flynn, Kieran Daly, Danny Hutchinson, Paddy O’Shea, Tim Foley (0-4,F), Shane McCarthy (0-1), Sean Hodnett (0-2), Arthur Coakley, James Lavin (0-1), Aaron Barry, Daniel Murray(1-1), Tom Daly, Patrick Casey.

Sunday evening saw the visit of Carbery Rangers U13 footballers to Wolfe Tone Park. The first half of this contest was nip and tuck with the home team a point ahead at the break by 2-03 to 2-02. However, Rangers found their shooting boots from the restart and shot 2-08 without reply before Shane Murray stopped the rot with a pointed free. Bantry staged something of a fightback before the end, scoring 2-04 but the damage was done and Carbery Rangers took the league points on a scoreline of 5-11 to 4-07.

Well done to the “Wicklow” team who won the Corn Mhichíl Uí Mhóráin, St Finbarrs Boys National School football tournament on Wednesday, June 19^th. On a beautiful evening, the final was played in the school grounds with a great crowd of parents, teachers and friends present. The winning team was Tom Flynn (Capt), Shane Crowley, Charlie Lavin, James Buckley, Ayrton Doyle, Dominique Gacek and Matthew Walsh. The finalists, “Tyrone” were Shane Murray, Paddy O’Neill, Hugh Fitzgerald, Aiden O’Sullivan and Filip Gill. Thanks to the staff of SFBNS who gave up their lunchtimes to play off this tournament and organise the final which proved such an enjoyable occasion.