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Wednesday 19 February 2014

February Update

2 Feb: Cecil wins English Masters

Armagh Golf Club’s Cecil Dillon became the 2014 English Masters Champion after beating Belgium's Demitre Payne by 1 shot in the final

 

8 Feb: Men win Zone Shield

Armagh Men won the Interzone Shield with a 1 shot victory over West Down.
Armagh were behind the from the start, with West Down producing a very good performance in the 1st half especially on mat 2 were West Downs Cecil Dillon guided his rink to a 17-6 victory over Mark Sproule.
The other 2 first half Armagh rinks of Joe Beattie and Alan Roberts were able to reduce this 11 shot deficit to 3 shots with Joe beating Liam Murray 10-7 and Alan winning 11-6 against Alan Johnston, leaving West Down with a slender 3 shot lead at the half way stage.
J Hendren, C Mulholland, J Richardson, J Beattie 10-7 L Murray
C Trainor, P Whittle, T Mulholland, M Sproule 6-17 C Dillon
P Moffett, S Jess, G Culbert, A Roberts 11-6 A Johnston

The second half got under way with West Down continuing in good form and by 4 ends in the 2nd half had moved to a 9 shot lead.
In the 5th end Armagh got the break they needed with Aidan Corrigan playing a super shot chopping out a bowl for a big count of 7 to bring Armagh within 2 shots of West Down.
West Down fought back again though and by lifting 6 shots across the 3 mats they had once again led by 8 shots.
Armagh again rallied back lifting a further 7 shots across the mats leaving them 1 down with 2 ends remaining.
West Down added 2 more shots on the 9th end leaving a nail biting finish with Armagh needing 3 shots to tie with all 3 mats on their last end.
Aidan Corrigan lifted 1 shot to leave 2 in the game but with 3 shots against Marty Trainor and his last bowl to come, things were looking bleak for the Armagh side. Marty however had other ideas and played a waited shot on his forehand to kick off an outside bowl to get shot and leave only 1 shot in the game with Andrew Leckey's last end still to come.
With Andrew holding shot, he drew a 2nd to leave the game against West Downs Eddie Campbell with his last bowl to come. Eddie tried to draw shot but was just slightly tight and did not change the head giving Armagh the 2 shots they needed to win the match.

 

9 Feb: Omagh Pairs

Drumgor's Aidan Corrigan and Dermie McMahon win Omagh Pairs beating William Morrison in the final.

 

18 Feb: Madden Pairs

Drumgors Gavin and Kyle Blakely on win Madden Pairs beating Sean Quinn in the final.

 

Saturday 15 February 2014

Friendship Singles

The draw has been made for this year’s Friendship Singles finals (see here).

 

The finals will be played in St. Matthew’s Richhill on Thursday 13th March.

 

Secretaries are reminded that completed draw sheets must be with Flo McNally by Saturday 8th March.

Monday 10 February 2014

Clontibret Singles

Contribret BC in Monaghan are running a singles tournament. See here for further details.

Saturday 8 February 2014

Zone Finals Update

Singles Semi Finals
A Leckey beat T Crawford
N Uprichard beat D McMahon

Singles Final
A Leckey beat N Uprichard

Pairs semi finals

R & J Beattie beat D Jordan & M Wilson
M & R Cassells beat S & M Trainor

Pairs final
R & J Beattie beat M & R Cassells

Mixed Pairs Semi Finals
E Trainor & D McDonald beat R Cassells & P Beattie
C McMillen & J Beattie beat A Crozier & G Crothers

Mixed Pairs Final
E Trainor & D McDonald beat C McMillen & J Beattie

Triples Final
S Breen, T Crawford, D McDonald beat S Jess, G Culbert, P Beattie

Rinks Finals
R Cassells, S Jess, J Richardson & A Roberts beat D Jordan, T Mulholland, M Sproule & M Wilson

Tuesday 4 February 2014

Zone Finals Line Up

Zone Finals Line Up

Singles semi finals
A Leckey (St Marks) v T Crawford (St Anthonys)
D McMahon (Drumgor) v N Uprichard (St Matthews)

Pairs semi finals
R Cassells (St Marks) v S Trainor (St Anthonys)
J Beattie (Drumgor) v M Wilson (Cranagill)

Mixed Pairs semi finals
P Beattie (St Marks) v D McDonald (St Anthonys)
J Beattie (Drumgor) v G Crothers (Armagh GC)

Triples Final
G Culbert (St Marks) v D McDonald (St Anthonys)

Rinks Final
T Bell (St Marks) v M Sproule (Cranagill)

Play starts at 7pm in St Saviours on Thur 6 Feb. Players are asked to wear either club shirts/black trousers or white tops/black trousers