Club Notes WE 7.5.17

4th May 2017 By The Editor

St Anne's CC Killaloe, pictured with Rosie Foley, sister of the late Anthony, and the O'Gorman Cup

Club notes this week come from Newcastle West RFC and St Anne’s Community College, Killaloe, who won their first ever rugby trophy last Friday evening.

Newcastle West RFC
Courtesy of Martin O’Sullivan

Diary dates

Junior Interprovincial, Munster v Leinster and RugbyFest Weekend

We are delighted to be hosting our first RugbyFest weekend on Saturday & Sunday 6/7^th May. Munster will take on Leinster in the Junior interprovincial championship on Saturday May 6^th at 2.30pm. We then host a family fun day on Sunday May 7^th in Killeline from 12 to 4pm. A massive day of ruby fun and games is planned including, a tag rugby tournament, penalty kick games, Live music, barbeque, bouncy castles, sumo suits. It promises to be a great day for all the family so mark the date and bring all the family along to the finale of our RugbyFest Weekend.

Poker Classic,

5 Card Draw,

Buy backs & Top Ups,

€20 entry.

On, Friday 5th May

At, Whelan’s Bar, Maiden St. Newcastle West @ 8.30 PM Sharp.

Finger food on the night

Lotto

Results from Friday 28^th April Lotto Draw

Numbers Drawn 5, 13, 22, 23 – NO WINNER

EOIN CAHILL, KILLELINE SHOP

DOGGIE BROWNE, LEE’S BAR

MARK SHHEHAN, FORGE INN BAR

KIERAN MULQUEN, KILLELINE SHOP

MICHELLE NORMOYLE, MAG MOTORS

GERARD LEAHY, C/O JOHN HENNESSEY

Promotors Prize: PAT COLLINS

Next week’s draw will be in Whelan’s Bar on Friday 5^th May. The jackpot stands at €11,300.

St Anne’s Community College, Killaloe
Rugby Silverware for St. Anne’s U19 rugby team

Friday night saw St. Anne’s play Castleisland in the final of the U19 O’Gorman Cup in Thomond Park. The U19 team have been unlucky over the years reaching many finals just to fall short. The team travelled to Thomond with a sense of excitement and feeling that this was their year.

The match started with an air of nervousness and would be Castleisland who would get their campaign off to the better start scoring an early try under the posts. This was converted to leave the score 7-0 after only 5 minutes. St. Anne’s have always had great fighting spirit and would never let this early set back get in their way. After a great team effort, Gary O Brien went over for a great team try. Harry Byrnes (Captain) converted the try to leave the score 7-7. St. Anne’s kept this momentum going and 4 minutes later Cian O’Donnell went over for a well worked try leaving the score at 12-7. With some great plays by both sides, Castleisland would score an important score just at the break of half time leaving the score at the break as 12-12.

Half time saw much needed team talks for both sides and it would be St. Anne’s who would come back out with the fighting spirit with another great try from Gary O’ Brien whoch would be converted by Harry Byrne. Score now standing at 19-12. St. Anne’s were now playing with the belief that today could be their day and leading by example Harry Byrnes goes over for another try which he then converted. Score now 26-12 with only 15 minutes left to play.

The bodies from both sides were getting tired and sore as this close contest was coming to an end. With 10 minutes remaining, Castleisland scored a well structured try bringing the score to 26-17. This was quickly followed by a Castleisland penalty leaving many of the Killaloe supporters biting their nails as the game was within a score. The final minutes of the game saw chances for both sides but the St. Anne’s boys with their fighting spirit held on for a famous 26-20 victory.

Try scorers for Castleisland were Moss O Callaghan, Jonathan Healy & Ethan Reidy with Stephen Murphy kicking well off the tee.

Congratulations to the team on a well fought victory.

U19 Team: