St. John's Moira Pairs

St. John's Moira are running their annual pairs tournament. Nights of play are as follows:

 

Wed 2nd November

Thu 3rd November

Sat 5th November

Tue 8th November

Wed 9th November

 

Finals Saturday 12 November.

 

To enter contact Sadie White on 028 92612231

Nationals Update: Over 55 and Open Pairs

Over 55 Pairs
Semi Finals

R Cassells (St Marks) v M Beattie (St Lukes Loughall)

D Ewart (Mullavilly) v S Conroy (St Anthonys)

National Pairs Section A Final

N Uprichard (St Matthews) v A Leckey (St Marks)

National Pairs Section B Final

T Miller (Portadown Meth) v P Beattie (St Marks)

No joy for Armagh in Champion of Champions

Armagh players had mixed fortunes in this years champion of champions.
Best performers were St. Anthony's Sean Trainor in the singles and St
Mark's Robert Cassells and Pauline Beattie in the pairs. Both reached the
semi finals of their competitions with Sean going out to eventual winner
Jim Fox of Oriel, and Robert and Pauline beaten by Mid Tyrone's Gerard
Conroy.

Stephen McCall and Laurence McCarten of Armagh GC reached the quarter
finals of the pairs before losing out to Cassells and Beattie. St.
Saviour's Andrew Hughes also bowed out in the quarter finals of the
singles beaten by M. McAleese of N. Eastern zone. Armagh's other
representative in the singles, Paul Moffett from St. Saviour's lost in the
first round to A. Steele from Donegal.

In the triples Armagh GC's Robert Kidd reached the quarter finals before
going out to eventual winner Eddie Marsden from Lisburn. The St. Mark's
triple of May Cassells, Ida Eldon and Rachel Cassells gave Mid Ulster's
Sean Quinn a mighty scare in the first round before going out on a second
tie end.

In the fours Drumgor's Aidan Corrigan and St. Anthony's Sean Conroy both
fell at the first hurdle to Lisburn's Raymond Stubbs (eventual winner) and
North Down's Paul Canning respectively.

National Rinks Update

Semi Final
Aidan Corrigan (Drumgor) v Andrew Leckey (St Marks)

Winner plays Alan Roberts (St Marks) in final.

Mens Zone Team announced

The Armagh Mens Zone team to play Meath has been selected and can be found here. The match will be played on Saturday 5 November in Skryne Community Centre at 1pm sharp.

 

Any member who can't play is asked to advise Zone Convenor Flo McNally as soon as possible.

 

A bus will leave the Fairgreen car park in Portadown at 10.30am sharp. Contact Flo for further information.

National Draws now online

The draws for this years Nationals have been made and can be viewed here, or via the main menu. The singles have already been played with the following through to the finals:

 

Section A Final

 

S Conroy (St Anthonys) v M Sproule (Drumgor)

 

Section B Final

 

S McCall (Co Armagh Golf Club) v D Beattie (Drumgor)

£2,200 raised in Charity Zone event

Armagh and West Down mens and ladies zone teams have raised £2,200 between them for charity. NI Chest Heart & Stroke, the Mandeville Unit and the Newry Hospice each received £740. The teams played for the Michael Catney and Ivan Marshall Cups in Loughbrickland on Sat 09 Oct before the cheque presentation was made.

Armagh won both games, the ladies winning by 13 shots and the men winning by 3.

Ladies :-
D Marshall won 5-2
M Cassells won 7-5
E Smyth won 10-3
P Beattie won 6-2
I Doone won 8-6
F McNally lost 3-8

Men :-
A Corrigan won 10-3
D McDonald won 10-7
A Roberts lost 5-7
D Wright lost 4-10
A Leckey won 7-3
J Beattie lost 6-9