Buncrana GAA Notes for Week Ending Sunday 30th June
The Big Breakfast: A big thank you to everyone who supported the Big Breakfast fundraiser on Sunday morning, the number of people who turned up was excellent and we hope you enjoyed your meal. Thanks to John Peter, Paul, Oisín, Carl, Malacy, Kevin, Adrian, Calvin, Alan, Ronan, Noel, John C, and especially club members and great stalwarts Rosemarie and Mark for pulling us out of the fire and into the kitchen. Also special thanks to Grant Butchers and Doherty Cafes for the scones and Roisin Doherty (X) who must have been baking all Saturday. To Frances Sarsfield for the bain maries and gel and of course John Peter for the appliances.
Sam Maguire Visit: Buncrana GAA will have Sam for a couple of hours on Saturday the 29th of June before it returns to Croke Park on 1st July, before hopefully returning to us in September! If anyone did not get a chance to get their photograph taken on previous occasions please contact Pauline Grant on 086 081 2429 and if we can facilitate you we will.
Good Luck: Good luck to Sam Doherty (Roe), Paul Nelson and Aedan Stokes who have been selected for the Ulster Elite U16 Hurling Team who will travel to Jordanstown for a residential training camp. This is a fantastic honour for the boys, well done form everyone at the club.
Senior Ladies Football: The Junior Championship draw was made at the County Board meeting on Monday night and our senior ladies have been drawn against Convoy in the preliminary round, with the first leg to played on the 7th July in Convoy. The team are continuing to preparation for the Championship and the remaining league fixtures and would welcome all support at games.
Girls Football: The under 14 girls played Urris in the Scarvey on Thursday night. The young Buncrana side found it tough in the first half against a very physical and strong Urris team. Despite Buncrana having most of the scoring opportunities they failed to convert them into scores and the Urris fullback line and goalkeeper did a good job of keeping their side ahead going into half time.
Buncrana started the second half well and took the game to Urris. The work rate from all of the team was clear to be seen and they dominated most of the play and started to put together some good team and support play. The Urris backline continued with their strong defending and managed to send the ball upfield to steal a few scores. Despite the ball staying in the Urris half of the pitch for most of the second half the final scoreline was Buncrana 3-07 Urris 5-08. The scorers for Buncrana were Aislinn Browne 2-01, Cortney Clare 1-0, Rachel Mc Laughlin 0-2 and Leah Mc Daid, Abaigh Stokes, Chloe Grant and Shauna Coyle all scored 1 point each. All in all the team can take pride in the way that they kept driving on and their never give up attitude augers well for their remaining matches.
Girls football training is on Monday night at 7.00pm sharp. Open to all girls from the ages of 9 to 16 years of age. New players are also welcome. Please bring your own water bottle.
U5 and U6 Gaelic Games: Under 5s and 6s sessions continues on Saturday mornings at 11.15am sharp in at the Scarvey. The sessions are based on GAA Fundamentals; a Croke Park initiative based on European wide research aimed at bettering your child’s coordination (including hand eye) balance, agility and basic fitness in a fun filled environment.
U8 Hurling: U8 Hurling will continue on Wednesdays at 5.30-6.30pm in Crana College. Newcomers are always welcome to come along and learn the basic skills of Hurling in a fun, safe environment.
U8 Football: U8 Football will continue on Friday at 6.30pm, new members are always welcome.
U9/U10 Football: U9 Football (for children born in 2004) and U10 Football (for children born in 2003) is on Friday evenings in the Scarvey from 6:30pm. New players are always welcome.
U12 Football: The training times are as follows: Tuesday 7.00-8.00pm and Friday 7.00-8.30pm. League matches are held each Monday evening. Mouthguards are now compulsory for all training as well as matches. Newcomers are always welcome to come along and learn the basic skills of Gaelic football in a fun, safe environment.
U14 Hurling: Buncrana U14 Hurlers made the trip to Dunloy Co. Antrim last weekend to take part in the Ulster Féile. The boys travelled without several key players due to injury and holiday commitments, but still had a strong panel to pick from. Carryduff (Down) were the boys first opponents in a game that proved to be the teams worst performance to date, although a easy win was recorded the boys themselves know that this standard was not up to scratch.
Antrim kingpins Dunloy were up next, and it was a different Buncrana side that took the field. Dunloy dominated the early exchanges until the Scarvey boys settled and began to take control, from the resumption of the second half Ben (Roe) Doherty and Dylan Duffy fired Buncrana back into contention and in command of the game. At the final whistle most spectators around the ground, even Dunloy management, had Buncrana winning by 2 points, except the ref – who’s score card is the only one that counts. The boys took it on the chin and got on with the final game against Carrickmore (Tyrone) and again ran out convincing winners.
Apart from the aforementioned players, Jason Campbell in goals had a day to remember and he was supported by a tight group of defenders, Fiachra Mac Lochlainn, Oisín Hegarty, Cathal Óg Wilson, John Vaughan, Mathew Wilson, and PJ Mc Carron. Darren Connolly was a revelation in the middle of the field and for a player who only took up hurling in recent years he is maturing into a fine committed hurler.
Up front Dylan and Ben were well supported by Aaron Craig, Gavin Kelly, Liam O’Doherty, Mark Craig, Oisin (Roe) Doherty and Ryan Hegarty. Next up is the championship semi-final against St Eunans at the Scarvey on Tuesday night at 7pm and all support is very welcome.
Lotto: The winning numbers in the lotto draw, which took place on Tuesday 4th June in O’Flaherty’s Bar on the Main Street, are as follows: 4-14-26-27
There was no jackpot winner this week, however prizes of €20 go to each of the following participants:
Eamon McDermott, Ballymagan
Siobhra O’Flaherty, Buncrana
Frances Doherty, Burwood
Marain Duffy, Lisfannon
Eoina McClean, Ballyshannon
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