Men ease past Mid Antrim

Congratulations to the Armagh men's team who had a convincing win in the end against Mid Antrim in Killymurris.
It was a very tight first half with only 3 shots in it at the break in Armagh's favour.

T Mulholland 10-10
A Leckey 12-9
M Sproule 8-8

The second half was a different story though with Armagh proving too strong on the day adding a further 27 shots to their tally to come away with a 30 shot win.

S McSorley 12-4
M Trainor 11-3
J Beattie 14-3

Armagh will now face North Down who beat Cork today by 8 shots.

 

So near yet so far for Beatties

Drumgor’s David and Rosemary Beattie will not get any closer to winning the Champion of Champion pairs tournament. On Saturday 17 October they got to the final of the prestigious tournament in Shaws Bridge Belfast. Going into the last end they were 9-7 up against N. Rutledge from Sixmilecross but dropped a 3 to lose by 1 shot. A great effort from the local pair.

Success for Trainor brothers

It’s been a great couple of weeks for Kieran Trainor. Last week he teamed up with Terry Crawford to win St. Matthew’s pair, and followed this by winning the County Antrim round robin pairs tournament with brother Sean. It was an all Armagh final with the Trainors beating Drumgor’s Seamus Skelton and Aidan Corrigan. Results were as follows:

Results as follows:

Quarter finals:

S Quinn bt A Irwin

A Corrigan bt N Haire

I Hobson bt C Beattie

S Trainor bt J Richardson

Semi finals:

A Corrigan bt S Quinn

S Trainor bt I Hobson

Final:

S Trainor bt A Corrigan

Armagh teams victorious in charity games

Both Armagh Zone teams were victorious in their charity friendly games with West Down.

The men's team retained the 'Michael Catney' memorial cup after winning by  31 shots.

There was only 1 shot in it at the halfway stage with West Down leading 27-26

J Beattie 7-9 J Wilson
T Mulholland 6-9 C Dillon
M Sproule 13-9 S McCartney

Armagh proved too strong in the second half and ran away to a comfortable 67-36 victory.

S McSorley 14-4 B Murphy
A Leckey 13-1 D Bowman
M Trainor 14-4 DJ Wilson

Presentation of the Michael Catney Memorial Cup.
L-R: Jal Richardson (Armagh Convenor), Yvonne Hayes, Cecil Dillon (West Down)

The ladies were also in fine winning by 32 shots and retaining the 'Ivan Marshall' memorial cup for another year.

Armagh raced out to a early lead and took a 15 shot lead into the break.

F McNally 9-10 E Robb
R Cassells 7-5 L Martin
D Marshall 18-4 A Polin

Armagh were able to add a further 17 shots to their tally in the second half to end up with a 69-37 win.

L Douglas 11-6 A Cannaway
I Douglas 12-5 B Conlon
P Beattie 12-7 S Dunn

Although Armagh won both charity matches the main winners of course are the charities. A fantastic amount of £2700 was raised by the 4 teams and will be split between the Southern Area Hospice and The Ronald McDonald charities. A big thanks to everyone involved in raising such a tremendous amount for 2 worthy causes.

Presentation of the Ivan Marshall Memorial Cup.
L-R: Jal Richardson (Armagh Convenor), Daphne Marshall, Cecil Dillon (West Down)

Local winners in St. Matthew's Pairs

Congratulations to St. Anthony’s Terry Crawford and Kieran Trainor on winning St Matthews pairs beating Nigel Shaw and Andrew Leckey in the final.

Results

Prelim
D McDonald bt R Wallace
P Moffett bt C Dillion

Quarter Finals
D McDonald bt P Moffett
A Leckey bt M Trainor
P Reid bt S McKinley
K Trainor bt P McKiver

Semi Finals
A Leckey bt D McDonald
K Trainor bt P Reid

Final
K Trainor bt A Leckey