Senior Hurling Championship..

It's only the month of April but this weekend we are playing the first round of the 2019 Cork Senior Hurling Championship. We face Douglas in Riverstown at 5.45 on Saturday evening. This will be a huge challenge for us as Douglas are regarded as one of the favourites for the County. We will have a much-changed team this year due to injury, foreign travel, transfers and retirement. Last year we lost to Erins Own before defeating Na Piarsaigh and then losing to Newtownshandrum. We met Douglas just three years ago in Pairc Ui Rinn- a game we should have won, and with so many inter-county players in their squad the city side will be formidable opposition. Championship is never easy and we know that we will have to hurl very well to have any chance of winning. Go for it lads.

Under 12 Hurling.

Our Under 12's travelled to Mallow to take on the home side in a Rebel Og League game. A close game ended with victory for our lads on a 3 5 to 3 3 scoreline. Well done boys.

A. Cronin, A. Kelleher, C. O Riordan, D. O Connell, D. Cash, D. McCarthy, D. Delaney, G. O Connell, J. Collins, J. Hynes, S. Dowling, S. Madden, R. Barry, S. Prendergast, T. Hackett.

We are fixed to play Cobh on this coming Saturday but this fixture is not yet confirmed.

CROKE PARK TRIP.

On today Thursday  April 18th our under 12 hurlers and mentors travel to Croke Park in Dublin as part of the 2019 Munster GAA  Hurling Activity Day series. They leave the parish at 7.15am heading for the Capital. It's a packed day with 3 mini games and a visit to the GAA Museum on the agenda. In our group are Bruff from Limerick, De La Salle, Waterford and Cappawhite from Tipperary. Our mini games are timed for 12, 12.20 and 12.40. Other Cork clubs visiting Croke Park today are Banteer, Watergrasshill, Blackrock and Fr O Neills. We hope all our lads have a great day out.

The Pitch Programme for our Group in Croke  Park is as follows;

MINOR HURLING.

Bride Rovers 5-18  Cobh 2-9
We welcomed Cobh to Páirc Na Bhride last Thursday night for our first P2 league game.  We played some superb hurling through out the game with goals from Shaun (2) Edmond, Adam & Nicky and points from all our forwards & midfielders along with Matt & Patrick from our halfback line. All players putting in a good shift and displaying great skill..  We had 19 players on the night with all getting good game time. John Buckley joins the injury list. Fingers crossed that all will be fit for Championship Hurling on the 24th.  
Panel. Dave Barry Jacob Powell Oisin Roche Michael Quinlan John Buckley Patrick O Flynn Matthew Quinn Seamus Aherne Kieran Kearney Craig O Callaghan Cian Hogan Conor Hazelwood Edmond Cashman Shaun Knox Adam Walsh Adam Hayes Nicky Kelleher Ronan O Connell Cillian Tobin

U15 Premier 1 hurling league  St Finbarrs 4-12 Bride Rovers 4-17

We played our first league match last Wednesday evening vs St Finbarrs in Togher. Though our lads had played  a lot of hurling already  it was the first time they have played together as a group and it showed in the first 20 minutes of this game with the Barrs pulling us all over the place. We went in at half-time only 4 points down with the home team doing all the hurling. The second half didn't start much better with the Barrs scoring a goal to put them 7 points ahead. Then it all changed with our back line of Cormac, Conor and Louis getting to grips with their forwards and Frank getting good distance from his puck outs we started moving the ball faster up the field. Our half back line of Denis Cillian Tobin and Nicky took over and our forwards did real damage.  With Ronan and David working really hard in midfield  Adam Walsh, Cillian Barry and Adam Hayes got some great scores.  The full forward line was Eldon. Josh and Ran held the ball up really well.  Adam Hynes, Ben Knox and Ronan O Riordan all got a run and it was a great win for our lads by a margin of five points Team and scorers. Frank O Flynn Cormac O Sullivan Conor Hazelwood Louis Roche Nicky Kelleher Cillian Tobin Denis Cashman Ronan O Connell  David Barry (0-1) Adam Hayes(0-9 (8 frees) Adam Walsh(3-3)  Cillian Barry Ryan O Callaghan Josh Ahern(0-3) Eldon O Connor0-1) Adam Hynes Ben Knox(1-0) Ronan O Riordan 

Next game down for Wednesday the 17th at home to Ballincollig 6.30 training every Thursday 7.30.

UNDER 7 HURLING AND FOOTBALL.

We would like to thank Watergrasshill GAA for joining us last Saturday for football and hurling games. A great day was had by all. Training resumes this week with football on Wednesday night from 630-730 pm and hurling on Saturday from 10-11am .

UNDER 10 HURLING v Sarsfields
On Saturday last we travelled with 22 hurlers to Buck Leary’s Cross for 2 games v Sars. Hopefully most of the parents will have defrosted by now!! Conditions were very tough with gale force winds but both teams played exceptionally well against 2 very good Sars teams. Hurling training this Wednesday night at 6:30 in Scannells. No match fixed for the coming weekend.
Cul Camp: As already disclosed the date for the camp this year is July 29th to August 2nd. Registrations for both boys and girls will be opened in the coming weeks...pay attention to messages from your team coaches. Numbers will be capped at 130 for boys and 100 for girls. No late registrations will be possible once full.

CLUB WEEKLY LOTTO.

The four numbers drawn on April 9th were 4, 8, 20, 22 -there was no winner
The prizes of  €30 each went to John Hurley, Betty O'Neill, Anna Marie Barry, John Dineen and James Finn. Jackpot for Tuesday April 16th was €20,000.

EASTER GREETINGS.

Happy Easter to all our players, members, supporters, sponsors and friends across the world at this time of year.

FIXTURES. Co HC V Douglas Sat April 20th in Riverstown 5.45.

                     Rebel Og Minor H C v Inniscarra, Delaneys pitch April 24th

                     Junior C Hurling league v Midleton away 7pm on  April 26th

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