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Monday 24 October 2011

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.