Club Notes: 15th July 2015

Photo of the Tallow junior hurling team who defeated Lismore on Friday last in Ballyduff

Lotto

Numbers drawn 4,7,10&23

No winner

Consolations

Sophie, Shane & Emma Cronin Eamon Forbes skippy donellan Brian Farrell & Mary o riordan Promoter Tom Doyle

Next draw the hotel July 20 jackpot €5600

Junior Hurling Championship: Tallow 4-18 Lismore 3-8

Tallow overcame the challenge of Lismore with some ease to record their second win in the junior hurling championship in Ballyduff on Saturday evening. As the score line suggests it wasn’t the most competitive of games and a bigger winning margin would not have flattered the Bridesiders. That said, I wouldn’t be reading a lot into it as Lismore were seriously under strength for this local derby.

Tallow were in control from the outset and dominated the game until the final whistle. They led 2-9 to 0-6 at half time and added the same again in the second half to give them a final tally of 4-18. Lismore hurled better in the second half and recorded 3-2 but the final outcome was never in doubt. Tallow enjoyed lavish possession throughout but tended to over elaborate, taking the short passing game to extremes and yielding up unnecessary turnovers. A more direct approach would at times have been more effective. We had some well taken scores and a good spread coming from eight different players. It was heartening to see a squad of 24 togged out and 3 more to come on to it. My man of match was Will Hogan who was operating as a sweeper. He read the game well, attacked the ball and distributed intelligently. Paul O Mahoney too showed some deft touches at wing back and Kevin Henley is in flying form. There’s plenty room for improvement however and some of the panel need to reacquaint themselves with the hurling field. It would make all the difference!!

Tallow: JP Grey, S Pratt, J Tobin, W Hogan, P O Mahoney, K Fraser, E Hickey, M Curley (0-6,4f), Stefan Tobin (1-0), A Pratt (0-1), D Mulcahy (1-4), J Neville (1-1), K Henley (1-2), B Henley (0-2), J Power (0-2), M Tobin, N Condon, B Buckley, M Barry, A Buckley, S Ryan, S Barry, D Mangan, A Curley

We have just one remaining game against Kilgobnet in the preliminary rounds. We would need a result here to assure qualification to the knockout stages. No date for this fixture as yet.

U16 Hurling

Our U16 hurlers had a mixed start to their campaign .We started with a great win against Clan Na Gael in Butlerstown.We were at full strength for this game and won on a scoreline of 3 - 12 to 1 - 6 .Next up we played St Pats in Tallow . Due to holidays and other commitments we were short a few players .On a bad night weather wise we were beaten on a scoreline of 3 - 19 to 5 - 10.Three nights later we traveled to Bushy Park to take on the Brickeys .We were now down to 15 players but to their credit they put in a great performance and won by a point on a scoreline of 3 - 13 to 2 - 15 . Full Panel ;Robbie Geary (JC),Darah Buckley (JC),Billy Hynes,Ian Beecher,Billy Henley,Charlie Murphy,Cian Ryan,Tom Roche,Kieran Crawford,Mark Stuart,Liam Motherway,Ben Ahearne,Eoin McGrath,Ciaran Hunt,Ivan O Neill,Sean Henley,Dean Beecher,Michael Condon,Padraig Hynes,William Cunningham and Ciaran McCarthy.Scorers to date Darah 10 - 15,Ian 15 points,Liam 1 - 1,Mark 2 points,Ciaran Mc and Padraig a point each. Out next match is due to be played in Tallow against Portlaw on Wed 22 July at 7 bells.

Home on holiday

Great to see peter o Callaghan aka blob home on holidays! He was only landed in the country a day and still made time to support the juniors Friday night!! Enjoy your stay!!

Waterford u21

We wish the best of luck to Jordan Henley and the waterford u21 team who take on Clare this Wednesday night in Ennis in the munster semi final!!!