COACHING (GO GAMES BLITZ):
Roscommon coaching and games developmentare holding the first of their U12 football Go Games blitzes on nextSaturday morning April 16th at six different venues throughout the county.The blitzes will continue for the next three weeks April 16th, 23rd and30th Jim Keane will brief the team with times and groups later this week.
ELPHIN GAA CLUB LOTTORESULTS 9TH APRIL 2011:
Numbers Drawn 4,8,11,24.
NO JACKPOT WINNER
6 €25 lucky dip winners:
Ronan Collins,
Aidan Murray,
Kathleen Donnelly,
Padraig Costello,
Patricia Travers
Trevor Conroy.
Next Week`s Jackpot €7150
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JUNIOR A:
Saturday, April 9th at 5.30pm in Frenchpark
The Elphin Junior A team were beaten by a superior WesternGaels second team in the Tansey Cup Saturday evening.
On a fine evening for football, Western Gaels, playing withthe aid of a slight breeze in the first half, started brightly and had thebetter of the early exchanges. Good use of a two man full forward line and somesharp shooting by the Gaels forwards saw them establish a healthy lead. Elphinwere competing well but some wayward passing was undermining their hard wonpossession. Michael Callery and Gerry Cregg kicked over some good long rangeefforts and a well taken John Lambert goal meant Elphin were well in thecontest at half time.
In the second half, Western Gaels continued to play thebetter football. Their inside forward line was still causing problems andElphin were struggling to get any meaningful possession to their forwards. Apenalty midway through the second half could have put the game beyond doubt butit was sent wide and a great save from Elphin’s goalie, Dean Feely seemed toinspire his team to greater efforts. A couple of points narrowed the margin butGaels took control again and established a six point lead. A typical surgingrun up field from Martin Travers resulted in a fine point for Elphin’s fullback with the last kick of the game.
Team: Dean Feely, Alan Beirne, Martin Travers, DamienCregg, Ronan Beirne, Brendan Neary, Martin McCaffrey, Gerard Brady (capt),David Hynes, Gerry Cregg, Michael Callery, Seanie O’Beirne, Martin Cregg, JohnLambert, Damien Donlon
Subs: Kiev Reynolds for Damien Donlon, Shane Neary forMartin Cregg, Edward Keane for John Lambert
Scorers for Elphin: John Lambert 1-0 Michael Callery 0-4 (3frees), Gerry Cregg 0-2 points, Martin Travers 0-1
Ref: PaddyMcDermott
Half time: Elphin 1-3 W. Gaels 0-9
Full time: Elphin 1-7 W. Gaels 0-15
JUNIOR B:
Our Junior B team were well beaten by St. Croans in their Div. 4 league game inOrchard Park on Sunday.
TEAM.
Brian Oates, Marty Brady, Eddie Keane, Dermot O Reilly, Paul Morris,Ronan Beirne, Charlie King, John Keane, John Sweeney, Damian Donlon, TrevorConroy, kiev Reynolds, John Lambert, Shane Reynolds and Martin Higgins.
SUBS: Conor Lenehan for Shane Reynolds, Darren Traynor for Brian Oates,Andrew Farrell for Charlie King, Stephen Hughes for Eddie Keane and Dean Feeleyfor John Lambert.
LADIES:
U16:
Hard luck to the u-16 ladies who were defeated by Four Roads in the 1/4of the championships.
Scorers on the day were: S. Regan (1-0), A. Higgins (0-2) and N. Beirne(0-3).
Player of the match was Cherie Hook for a brilliant performance throughoutthe match. Special mention to Anna Higgins and Hazel Conroy for excellentefforts during the match!
