Junior Zone practice Sat 1 Feb.

FAO Armagh Juniors

A Junior Zone practice match against St. Anthony's has been arranged for Sat 1 February in St. Anthony's hall at 7.30pm. 

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Omagh Pairs Tournament

 

 

Mens Interzone 3rd Round (Plate)

Mens Interzone 3rd Round (Plate)
Sat 25th Jan at 2pm in St Matthews Richhill

Armagh Team as follows

Rink 1
P Garvey
C Mulholland
J Richardson
J Beattie

Rink 2
P Garvey Jnr
G Crothers
D Beattie
A Leckey

Rink 3
P Moffett
S Jess
G Culbert
A Roberts

Rink 4
P Whittle
S McCall
T Mulholland
M Sproule

Rink 5
C Trainor (St Anthonys)
Raymond Hunter
K Trainor
A Corrigan

Rink 6
S Breen
N Uprichard
D McDonald
M Trainor

Reserves: R Collen, C Deering, W Gilpin, J Hendren and
C Trainor (Tullysaran)

RINKS 1 - 3 Bring 2 dozen buns
RINKS 4 - 6 Bring half loaf of sandwiches

Anyone unable to play contact Flo asap. (07834423482)

Junior Zone Practice Match

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From: paul whittle <william-whittle@sky.com>
Date:
To: Armagh Zone <webmaster@armaghzone.org.uk>
Subject: Armagh Zone


Calling all Armagh junior zone players. Match Saturday 25th January in Mullabrack Church Hall. Game starts at 7.30 against Mullabrack. Anyone unable to play please let Paul Whittle know as soon as possible.

Clontibret Pair win St. Marks

Congratulations to Pat McSkeane and Brendan Maginness of Clontibret on winning St Marks Pairs last night beating Graham and Peter Christie in the final.

Results:
Prelims
A Morrison bt J Gray
M Beattie bt A Weir

Quarter Finals
A Morrison bt M Beattie
B Maginness bt S Murphy
C McHugh bt N Uprichard
P Christie bt D McStravick

Semis
B Maginness bt A Morrison
P Christie bt C McHugh

Final
B Maginness bt P Christie

Ladies bow out at Semi Final stage

Commiserations to the Armagh Ladies on Saturday who we're beat by 1 shot in a nail biting semi final with North West.
North West started the brighter in the 1st half with M Douglas and her rink doing the damage beating May Cassells rink by 10 shots.
Elizabeth Smyth and her rink started off well but we're clawed back to eventually win by 1 shot.
Rachel Cassells produced some excellent bowls when under pressure to guide her rink to a 1 shot win.
Leaving Armagh trailing by 8 shots at the half way stage.
Armagh came out fighting in the 2nd half and at one stage had an overall lead of 6 shots. North West fought back to level the match with just 1 end remaining on 1 mat.
North West were lying game with Irene Doone's last bowl, Irene had to try to lift a bowl onto the jack to get the win but just missed by a fraction.

Rink results
M Cassells 5-15 M Douglas
E Smyth 7-6 F Hunt
R Cassells 9-8
I Doone 8-5 K McDivett
F McNally 7-7 E Wallace
P Beattie 10-6 F McDermott

Well done to North West on a good win and all the best for the final against North East.

Team for Ladies Interzone Semi

The ladies team to play North West in Limavady on Sat 18 January has been selected and can be seen here.

Armagh Men through to Interzone Plate semi

Congratulations to Armagh Men's team who beat Donegal on Saturday to progress to the semi finals of the plate competition were they will face Larne on sat 25 Jan at home in St Matthews Richhill.

Rink Scores:
A Roberts 13 - 12 Pj Gallagher
D McDonald 14 - 6 N Alexander
M Sproule 14 - 8 D O'Kane
A Leckey 9 - 10 J Quinn
A Corrigan 4 - 7 A Steele
M Trainor 11 - 6 E Curran

Final score
Armagh 65 - 49 Donegal

St. Matthew's Pairs

St Matthew's Richhill Open Pairs tournament will begin on Monday the 20th of January and continue each night until Friday the 24th of January, Finals are on Saturday 25^th. Entries for the tournament can be made through facebook or by email (flomcnally@hotmail.co.uk) or by phone call (02838393669/02838337232) or mobile (07834423482).

Joe wins Swedish Masters

Drumgor's Joe Beattie has won the latest event on the Shortmat Players Tour - the Swedish Masters. It was a very successful tournament for Armagh players in Sweden with Armagh GC Cecil Dillon coming 3rd and St Marks Jal Richardson 4th. St Marks Lisa Douglas was also runners up the plate competition. Irish players dominated the event with Joe beating Mark Beattie from Mid Tyrone in the final to claim his second win on the Tour.

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Zone Draws made

The draws for this year’s Zone Championships have been made and can be viewed here.

Sean wins Irish Short Mat Tour singles

Congratulations to St. Anthony's Sean Trainor who has won the inaugural Irish Short Mat Tour singles event in Cookstown.  This was Sean's second tournament win in succession after winning Cloghreagh pairs with brother Martin. 

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Armagh Zone Shield Draw

Armagh Zone Shield Draw

St. Anthony's Singles

St. Anthony’s are holding their Open Singles and Junior Singles tournaments in February 2014. Full details can be found by clicking the links below:

 

Open Singles

 

Junior Singles

Ladies into Interzone Semi's

Congratulations to the Armagh Ladies who came out winners today after a hard fought battle with Western winning by 11 shots and have now reached the semi final stages of the ladies Interzone.

On mat 1 Agnes Crozier, Ann Patton, Hilary Agnew and Elizabeth Smyth had a very tight game. Although the Armagh rink started off well and were ahead most of the game, the Western rink fought back to even things up on the last end 8-8.

Mat 2 saw another tight game with only a total of 11 shots over the 10 ends, Armagh's Marlene Hobson, Michelle Wright, Diane Agnew and May Cassells coming out on top
7-4 winners.

On mat 3 Rachel Cassells rink of Rosemary Beattie, Irene Doone and Leslie Strain got off to a slow start but two counts of 3 in consecutive ends kicked them into gear and they went on to win 12-7.

Half time score
Armagh 27-19 Western

With only 8 shots in the game there was still all to play for as the second half got underway.

On mat 4 Ann Crozier, Goretti Garvey, Jean Hawthorne and Flo McNally had a tough battle with Caroline Scott and her rink. After 10 ends nothing could separate the 2 rinks ending up in a 6-6 draw.

Mat 5 saw some excellent bowls being played by the Armagh rink of Sophia Minish, Linda Milligan, Sadie White and Catherine McMillen and after 9 ends the Armagh rink led 12-4, but Westerns Jean Carson played an excellent shot with her last bowl on the last end to turn a bowl out to lie 5 and give a final score of 12-9 in Armagh's favour.

Mat 6 saw another tight encounter with Margaret Dempster, Christina Breen, Daphne Marshall and Pauline Beattie taking on Ester Forster's rink. The Western rink started off the brighter of the 2 leading 5-2 after 7 ends. But on the 8th end the Armagh rink lifted a count of 6 to put them 8-5 up with 2 ends to go. The western rink rallied back though and lifted a 2 and a 1 on the last to ends to tie the score 8-8.

Final Score
Armagh 53-42 Western

Armagh will now face an away draw to North West on Saturday 18th Jan in the semi finals after North West beat Mid Ulster today.