James Stephens Tournament

Crokes under 9 hurlers travelled to the James Stephens GAA Club (Co. Kilkenny) on Sunday 12th of September.

 

Crokes were drawn in Group A along with our host James Stephens and nearby neighbours Dicksboro. Crokes settled early in our opening match against Diclsboro and took a commanding half time lead of 2-02 to 0-00. In the second half Crokes had the wind at their backs and pushed on to run out comfortable winners on a score line of 6-05 to 0-00.

In our second group match we faced host James Stephens to decide who would progress to the Cup Final. The Village lads with the wind at their backs got off to a flier and took a lead of 0-03 to 0-00 at half time. The second half saw the Crokes lads produce their finest hurling of the day as the outscored their opponents 2-02 to 0-01 to run out winners on a score line of 2-02 to 0-04.

 

In the Final Crokes faced Erins Own (Castlecomer) in an end to end battle , they comer lads took the early initiative and lead 2-02 to 0-01 at the break. In the second half the Crokes lads showed great character to fight back outscoring Erins Own by 2-01 to 1-01 but time ran out for Crokes and Erins Own took the honours on a final score line of 3-03 to 2-02.

 

We would like to express our gratitude to the James Stephens Club for the hospitality shown to our players and all the visiting crokes parents/supporters. Also our thanks to the Crokes Under 9 players and parents for travelling to Kilkenny and representing the Club.

 

Kilmacud Crokes Under 9 Hurling Panel : Garry Byrne, Alex Carroll, Shane Crowley, Dan Doyle, Aodhan Keane, Conor Hall, Brendan Horgan, Ben Hynes, Sean Kealy, Oran Lavelle Hayes, Padraic Linehan, Connor Mooney, Mark O’Donohue, Tomas O’Neill, Aaron O’Toole, Eoin Ryan, Jack Slattery, Brian Sheedy, Joseph O’Dwyer.

 

See photos of the tournament, courtesy of Elaine Mooney, click on the camera above!