Ulster Juvenile Handball Championships.

Monday 14.03.2011

Tyrone Handball was well represented by their Juveniles at this year’s Ulster Finals in Kingscourt.

Sean Kerr (Brackey) led the way in the Boys section and set the tone for the day as he lifted Tyrone’s first title
with a win in the the u13 boys singles. This was followed up by several doubles titles as Pauric Mullan (Carrickmore) and Dara Mc Dermott (Greencastle) collected the Boys Under 13 title. This win was followed up almost immediately by a solid performance from Carrickmore pair Niall Allison and Ronan Mc Kay as they succeeded in winning The Boys Under 14 title. Following on from that there was further Tyrone success at Under 16 as Patrick Mc Crory of Carrickmore and Pol Clarke of Brackey also lifted the Doubles title.

In Girls section there was further doubles success this time starting with Ciara Mullan and
Michaela Mc Cartan (Brackey) at Under 12.u13 Eilise Mc Crory (Brackey) and Sinead
Donnelly (Loughmacrory) at Under 13 and Laura Mc Glone and Claire Mc Donald (Pomeroy) at Under 17 won their competitions to add to the growing list of Tyrone winners. Meanwhile in the singles there was a good win for Meave Mc Elduff (Brackey) in the u16 singles.

There was some fanastic handball produced through out the day and Tyrone were involved in some excellent games in both singles and doubled throughout the day. Indeed they can consider themselves most unfortunate in u12 boys doubles as Ciaran Cuddy and Cormac Munroe just came up short. It was a similar story for Loughmacrory girl Aoife Kelly in u14 girls while in the u16 boys, Gavin Mc Crystal pushed Irish number one seed Darren Doherty all the way.

Work now begins for next weekend as all winners from u14 to u17 will go
forward and represent Ulster in the All Ireland Juvenile semi Finals in
Leinster.

The full list of results are listed below:

Girls

U12 Singles     Dearbhla Coleman (Arm) defeated Elizabeth McGarvey (Tyr) 5 & 5

U12 Doubles   Ciara Mullan / Michaela McCartan (Tyr) defeated Rachel McGowan / Grainne Scullian (Arm) 10 & 7

U13 Singles     Dervla Cooney (Arm) defeated Patricia McDonald (Tyr) 13, (12) & 12

U13 Doubles   Elise McCrory / Sinead Donnelly (Tyr) defeated Meabh McMahon / Alana Doran (Arm) 3 & 5

U14 Singles     Aoife McConville (Arm) defeated Aoife Kelly (Tyr) (14) 8 & 7

U14 Doubles   Aoibhinn Henderson / Niamh Coleman (Arm) w/o Anna McElroy / Anna McKernan (Der)

U15 Singles     Final between Monaghan & Tyrone not being played till Monday

U15 Doubles   Nicole Dynes / Rachael McDonald (Tyr) defeated Seona McCracken / Rebecca Monaghan (Der) 0 & 1

U16 Singles     Meave McElduff (Tyr) defeated Niamh Henderson (Arm) 11 & 11

U16 Doubles   Clare & Laura Monaghan (Der)

U17 Singles     Final between Monaghan & Tyrone not being played till next Wednesday

U17 Doubles   Michaela McGuigan / Jane Loughran (Tyr) defeated Lauran McGlone / Claire McDonald (Der) 9 (17) & 6

Boys

U12 Singles     Final between Monaghan & Tyrone not being played till next Friday

U12 Doubles   Aaron Mohan / Ryan Mohan (Mon) defeated Cormac Munroe / Ciaran Cuddy (Tyr) 11, (5) & 11

U13 Singles     Sean Kerr (Tyr) defeated Conor Leonard (Mon) 8 & 14

U13 Doubles   Pauric Mullan / Conor Loughran (Tyr) defeated Jordan Murtagh / Eoghan Heaney (Arm) (14), 9 & 10

U14 Singles     Simonas Seskevicius (Mon) defeated Brian McAnenly (Arm) (13), 5 & 3

U14 Doubles   Niall Allison / Ronan McKay (Tyr) defeated Mark McDonnell / Gareth McDonald (Mon) 10 & 1

U15 Singles     Eugene McGeough (Mon) v Luke Kelly (Tyr) 4, (13) & 7

U15 Doubles   Ramunas Ramauskas / Mantas Zalikas (Mon) defeated Paul McKay / Aaron Owens (Tyr) 7 & 8

U16 Singles     Darren Doherty (Mon) defeated Gabhain McCrystal (Tyr) 19 & 11

U16 Doubles   Patrick McCrory / Pol Clarke (Tyr) defeated Stephen Digney / Pat Havern (Dow) 8 & 11

U17 Singles     Philip Duffy (Arm) defeated Keelan Rice (Dow) 9 & 19

U17 Doubles   Conal McCavitt / Ciaran Duffy (Arm) defeated Niall Quinn / Sam Burns (Dow) 13 & 4