Castlebar - County Mayo - Hurling Notes

Hurling Suck Valley U18

Castlebar: 1-3 - Ballinasloe: 0-3

Castlebar Mitchels defeated Ballinasloe in the 2nd round of the Suck valley game played on Sunday in Ballinsloe,Castlebar played some fine hurling and completely dominated the first half everywhere but on the scoreboard and a solitary point by Darren McTigue seperated the sides at half time, after half time John Cotter put Castlebar 2 points up, Ballinasloe rallied to level scores, enter Ger Duffy with a bullet of a shot to the corner of the net followed quickly by a Stephen Fitzgerald point which put Castlebar in the driving seat, Ballinasloe scored a late consolation point but Castlebar were worthy victors. from 1 to 15 a great display by all.

Castlebar: Barry Lane Joseph Redmond Danny Mulvihill Alan Gavin Stephen Fitzgerald(0-1) Christy Walsh Bernard Kennedy James Lowe John Cotter (0-1) Tony Sweeney Darren McTigue(0-1) Damian McHale Ger Duffy(1-0) Luke McGrath Damian Togher

Hurling-Suck Valley League U-16

Ballinasloe: 2-5 - Castlebar Mitchels: 0-3

Castlebar Mitchels went down to Ballinasloe in their second game of the campaign. All through the tie was tightly contested with little between the two sides in general play. However Mitchels found it difficult to get scores on the board all through. A fortuitous early goal gave Ballinasloe an advantage they never lost. Despite an amount of possession Castlebar could not register scores and the home side tagged on a further goal and point to lead by seven points at half time.

Mitchels upped the pace in the second half but missed a couple of good goal chances. Points by Shane Queenan, Tony Sweeney & Art O'Suilleabhain were matched by Ballinasloe who ran out deserving winners in the end

Barry Lane did well in goal with good displays from, Joseph Redmond, Sean King and Bernard Kennedy in defence. Darragh O'Malley did well at midfield while David Bell, Laurence Kenchington and Art O'Suilleabhain were the pick of the attack

Castlebar: Barry Lane, Sean King, Joseph Redmond, Daniel Munnelly, Declan Howley, Bernard Kennedy, Colman Munnelly, Tony Sweeney(0-1), Darragh O'Malley, David Bell, Laurence Kenchington, Shane Queenan (0-1),Cathal Walsh, Daniel Loughran , Art O'Suilleabhain(0-1).

Subs: Rory Quinn, Jamie Redmond, Gregory Robinson, Aran Singh, Dara Singh.

U14 Suck Valley League

Ballinasloe: 1-6 - Castlebar Mitchels: 0-1

Mitchels U14s suffered their second defeat in this year's league, going down by 8 points to Ballinasloe. In a competitive first half, the Castlebar boys had plenty of the possession, but couldn't convert their chances into scores. They trailed at the break by a single point.

The home side added 1-5 without reply after the break. Nevertheless, this was a much improved performance by Castlebar and, missing some big players, gives hope for the year ahead. Tackling and hassling improved, while work needs to be done on lifting and striking.

Best for Castlebar were Ronan Byrne, Shane Nugent and Conor Murphy.

Castlebar : M Parsons, C Murphy, S Nugent, B Crowley, S King, C McManamon, K Feeney, G Dunne, R Byrne, O Ralph, C Scahill (0-1), J Gallagher, C Gallagher, A Abbasi, E Mulkerrin, M Browne.

Training Times for 2009 till further notice

U8 &U10 6pm to 7pm on Wednesday evening in Breaffy Sports Arena
U14 6pm-7pm on Thursday evening in Castlebar
U16 7.00pm to 8.00pm on Thursday evening in Castlebar
U18 8pm to 9pm on Thursday evening in Castlebar

Suck Valley League will continue next next weekend when we all 3 teams will be away to Ballygar. you can follow the progress of all our teams on www.suckvalleyleague.com

Castlebar Seniors play their 2nd Genfitt Cup campaign next Saturday V Belmullet.

Training continues on Wednesday Nights at 7.30 pm at St Marys for the seniors

Upcoming Events
Lotto takes place next weekend
Social has been confirmed for Saturday 21st March in the Welcome Inn Hotel