St John’s Notes 3rd April
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St John’s Notes 3rd
April
Conor and Ryan Flanagan, Gerard McAnulty,
Conor Braniff and David Milling will all
have to wait another week before the St
Malachy’s under-16’s All Ireland final.
This was postponed from Sunday past to
this Saturday. Best of luck to all the
team.
St Malachy’s under-14 team were unable
to repeat the
Ulster success of their seniors in the
McDevitt Cup Final when they went down
to St Ciaran’s of Tyrone, with some
fella Canavan doing a lot of the damage.
Where have we heard that before? Still
it’s quite an achievement to win the
county title and get this far so Darren
Savage, Declan Gilmore, Conor Morgan,
Daniel McKay, Hugh Flanagan and Darren
Burns can all be proud of their
contributions along the way. Best of all
they will bring that experience back for
the benefit of to the club.
The minors’ home game with Teconnaught
on Sunday was postponed. Fixtures now
shift from Sunday to Wednesday evenings
and the team are away to Bredagh this
evening. The minors AND UNDER-16s
are now training at the field on Tuesday
and Friday evenings at
6.30pm. The under-16 league starts on
Tuesday 18th April.
Our under-14s had a challenge game at
home to Longstone on Saturday and had
another good work-out. It was
Longstone’s first game of the season and
if they had put away more of their
second half opportunities they could
have asked more questions of the home
side. As it was
St John’s won with something to spare,
but it was a good run out in preparation
for the start of the league on Thursday
20th April. This Saturday its
back to training again (12.15 to
13.30pm). There is the possibility of
another challenge game the week after
(15th April). If not it will
be training as usual.
Ladies football training is on Wednesday
evenings at the field at
6.30pm.
Training for the under-10s and under-8s
continues on Saturdays at
11.00am.
The under-12s now train on Fridays at
5.00pm.
Lottery
numbers for 30th were 2, 5,
11 and 28. There was just one £10 winner
and the jackpot now stands at £1,750.
The
next Poker Night will be on Wednesday 12th
April (not change of day as this is Holy
Week).
The big draw was held after the last
race, with the winners drawn by Iain
Duff, manager of Downpatrick Racecourse.
The top prize of £8,000 went to D & S
Braniff, H McMullan picked up £1,000 and
the each way prizes of £100 went to
N McGreevy,
P Dornan, J Flynn, R McChesney, PJ
McKinney, D Burns, P Walsh, S Quinn, G
Rogan and M Morgan.
We wish
Kevin Savage a pleasant trip as he packs
his bags for the Master International
Rules tour to Australia. Kevin has given
the club many years sterling service as
a player and his selection for the
Ireland team is a fitting reward.
