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Nuachtlitir Cumann Fánaithe na Claise

Vol 7 Issue 36 Date: 11.09.2017

Upcoming Fixtures SOUTH EAST JUNIOR A FOOTBALL FINAL

16/09/2017 @ 18.30 in Ballinaspittle, Valley Rovers V Belgooly

U21 PREMIER HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

18/09/2017 @ 18.30 in Bandon, Valley Rovers V Ballinhassig

Senior Football League Kelleher Shield Division 1

17/09/2017 @ 12.00 in Ballingeary, Valley Rovers V Ballingeary

Fe 12 P1 Football League

14/09/2017 @ 19:00 in Sallybrook, Valley Rovers V Glanmire

Carrigaline Court Hotel Fe 13 (2) Autumn Hurling League

16/09/2017 @ 15:00 in Riverstown, Sarsfield V Valley Rovers

Carrigaline Court Hotel Fe 14 P2 Football Championship

16/09/2017 @ 15:00 in Brinny, Carbery Rangers V Valley Rovers

Fe 15 P2 Hurling League

17/09/2017 @ TBC in Carrigaline, Carrigaline V Valley Rovers

Fe 12 C3 Football League

17/09/2017 @ 12:00 in Brinny, Valley Rovers V Ballincollig

All fixtures subject to change, please check website homepage prior to

games

Lotto Results

Sunday 10th/Sept/2017

Numbers Drawn: 1 14 19 22

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€20 winners: Michael Wycherley c/o Johnnys Joe O’Sullivan c/o Barretts Paddy Murray c/o F Kearney Una O’Sullivan c/o F Kearney Jerry Healy c/o Brinny Inn Joe Crowley, Slievegullane Gerard O’Sullivan, The Rock Brendan White, Farnahoe Sean Lynch, Ballymurphy North Vincent O’Brien c/o F Kearney Next Week’s Draw in: Crossbarry Inn Jackpot €3,800

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VALLEY ROVERS JUNIOR A HURLERS WHO RETAINED THEIR SOUTH EAST

HURLING TITLE LAST FRIDAY NIGHT

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SENIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Valley Rovers 0.18 V’s Avondhu 1.14

Valley Rovers Senior footballers took on Avondhu in the

4th round of the championship in Ovens on Sunday and

once again gave us another super comeback. Despite

Valleys getting the opening point it was Avondhu who

had the better of the opening quarter as they lead by 1-

03 to 0-01. By the end of normal time in the first half

Avondhu had increased their lead to 8 points. The

referee added 8 minutes to the end of the first half due

to the injuries of two Valleys players. In this time Valleys

outscored Avondhu four points to one and it left the

half time score Valley Rovers 0-05 Avondhu 1-07.

Turning to face the wind a Valley Rovers win looked

unlikely, however into the second half Valleys began to

play some better football but by the end of the third

quarter Avondhu lead by six . Into the last quarter

Valleys took control of the game and by the end of

normal time it was a draw game. In the first minute of

added time Avondhu raced up field and as Rory O

Hagan looked like kicking the winner a partial block by

Tim Cummins meant the shot fell short in goalkeeper

Cormac Desmonds hands. Into the second minute of

injury time Valleys had one last attack and the ball was

worked to John Cottrell and he kicked accurately and

gave Valleys the Victory on the score line of Valley

Rovers 0-18. Avondhu 1-14. The win puts Valleys into

the quarter final.

Team:

Cormac Desmond

Noel O'Donovan Tim Cummins Tomas O'Brien

Darragh Lordan David Lynch Johnny Kiely

Darragh Murphy Gary Farrell

Eoin O'Reilly Jack Walsh Tadhg O'Brien

Chris O'Leary John Cottrell Fiachra Lynch

Subs Used:

Eoghan Delaney, Rory O'Sullivan, Jack Lyons, Kevin

Canty

SOUTH EAST JUNIOR A HURLING FINAL

Valley Rovers 0.14 V’s Tracton 1.08

On Friday last Valley Rovers Junior hurlers headed for

Ballygravan in search of 2 in a row south east titles,

and they didn’t let us down. In the first 6 minutes

Valleys raced into a 4 point lead, 1 each from Darragh

Crowley and Rory O’Sullivand and 2 from Richie Butler.

Valleys remained in charge for the rest of the first half

but had goalkeeper Gary Jones to thank on 2 occasions

when making 2 great saves, The score at half time was

Valley’s 0.09 to Tracton 0.03. The 2nd half was going

exactly as Valley would have wanted up until the 28th

minute of the 2nd half when they lead by 0.14 to 0.07,

however a goal and a point by Tracton with 2 minutes

to go gave the supporters an interesting las couple of

minutes but Tracton couldn’t get the goal to force a

replay and Valley won on a scoreline of Valleys 0.14 to

Tracton 1.08.

Team:

Gary Jones

Shane O’Leary, John Burke, Don Lynch

Darragh Crowley, Michael O’Brien, Aidan Sheehan

Aidan Walsh, Richie Butler

Derek Canty, Rory O’Sullivan, Bill Hawkes

Adam Settini, Gary Deane, Dan Sweetnam

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Subs:

Tadgh Fitzgerald, Pa Hurley and Tony McKeown

Pictured above is Man of the Match Richie Butler

receiving his award. (We are lucky Richie handling of

the sliotar during the game was better than the

handling of the award). Well Done Richie!!

LADIES FOOTBALL

UNDER 16’s

Valley Rovers 1-09 Coursey Rovers 1.06

Our U16 girls travelled to Redmond's pitch last

Thursday night to take on Courcey Rovers in the

county semi-final. Valleys won the toss and decided to

play with the wind, however, it was the Courcey girls

who got the better start and raced into a 1:01 to no

score lead after 10 mins, the goal coming from a well

taken penalty. Valleys slowly settled with a lead point

from Orla O Sullivan followed by further scores from

Ellen Fehily, Nicole Callanan & O Sullivan again. Right

on the stroke of halftime, Valleys got their all-

important goal when the ball came back off the

crossbar for Orla to react quickest and slammed the

ball to the net to leave the halftime score of Valleys

1:4 to Courceys 1:1

The second half resumed and proved a tense affair as

both defences continued to dominate. Sterling

defence from Emma O Donavan and Niamh Hurley,

coupled with Sarah lynch at halfback, Valleys repelled

attack after attack and with Laoise Collins proving to

be a key link player at midfield Valleys knocked over

further scores from the mercurial O Sullivan and

Callanan to maintain their lead. Courceys continued to

try and level the game but thankfully the Valleys rear-

guard held firm to run out winners on a score line of

VALLEY ROVERS 1:09 to COURCEY ROVERS 1:06

Team:

Jane Mulvihill

Aine Lynch Carol Cremin Emma ODonavan

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Niamh Crowley Niamh Hurley Sarah Lynch

Ellen Fennelly Niamh Hurley

Cliona Reardon Roisin O Sullivan Orla O Sullivan

Nicole Callanan Ellen Fehilly Rachel Lordon

Subs:

Caoimhe McCarthy, Grace O Dwyer, Shauna Reilly, Chloe

Burton, Kim Muckian, Claire O Dwyer, Leanne O

Callaghan, Emma Kelly, Katie Murphy, Aishling O

Donavan, Aishling Fennelly.

Valleys now play the county final against either St Vals or

Eire Og next Sunday 17th September at 3pm in a neutral

venue TBC.

UNDER 10’s

Well done to the u10 Valley Rovers Ladies football team

for a great day at the Passage West U10 blitz on

Saturday. The day started where the girls joined a

parade of 123 teams from the four corners of Ireland

behind the Carrigaline Pipe Band.

The girls showed great teamwork, shooting, passing

and a typical Valley Rovers "never say attitude" in

games against Kenmore (Kerry), Mungret (Limerick )

and St Nicks and St Vals of Cork. The coaches are

delighted with the progress shown. This was a blitz

where we prioritised girls in their last year u10 and all

girls present got lots of game time. The best summary

of the day was that all the girls left with smiles on

their faces, which is one of the aims of playing sport.

The girls who represented us on Saturday were Ella

Ryan, Emily McGrath, Sorcha Hurley, Caoimhe Craig,

Lydia Huggard, Shona Cronin, Allanah McCarthy, Aoife

Dullea, Croina Murphy, Ally McGrath, Millie Slyne,

Sadbh Forde, Suzie Murphy and Dilly Barry Twohig.

CAMOGIE

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CORK UNDER 14’s

Congradulations to Valley Rovers players who were on

the Cork panel who played in the U14 All Ireland blitz

last weekend on All Ireland Camogie weekend in

Dublin.

Pictured L to R: Molly Lynch, Kate Lynch, Orla O'

Sullivan & Laoise Collins.

JUVENILE

UNDER 16’s

Valleys U16’s travelled to Clonakilty to take on

Castlehaven in their P2 football quarter final. Valleys

started brightly with two points from the impressive

Adam Walsh Murphy. It was nip and tuck as

Castlehaven tagged on a few points and led by two

approaching half time. An opportunist goal from

Adam Walsh Murphy saw the sides go in level at half

time 1-5 to 0-8. The second half continued to be a

tight affair for the opening 15 minutes, points from

Cormac Kilduff, Aaron O’ Leary and Cian Crowley kept

the scoreboard ticking over. As we entered the last

ten minutes Valleys kept up the pressure with a

mixture of some outstanding defending from Cathal

O’Sullivan and Brian Hoey and two further goals from

Adam Walsh Murphy saw Valleys run out winners 3-10

to 0-13. Others to score on the day were Ronan

O’Connell and Darragh O’Shea. Valleys now await the

winners of Mallow\St Micheals clash.

Team:

Denny Kiely

Darragh Keane Cathal O’Sullivan Cian O’Keeffe

Brian Hoey Adam Kenneally Brian McCarthy

Darragh O’Shea Ronan O’Connell

Adam Walsh Murphy Aaron O’Leary Jack Hurley

Conor Taheny Cian Crowley Cormac Kilduff

Subs used:

Jonathon Kenneally & Gearoid Sweetnam

UNDER 12’s

U12 Martin Muldoon Tournament

Pictured above Valley Rovers 2 (U12’s) and Valley

Rovers 3 (U11’s)

Saturday last saw Valley Rovers host the inaugural

Martin Muldoon memorial hurling tournament.

With both a Cup and plate competition running on

both pitch 1 & 2 a busy day of games lay ahead.

Due to a withdrawal in the plate competition on

Friday, Valley Rovers U-11s came to the rescue to

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enter a team in the tournament on Saturday morning.

In the plate competition on pitch 2 it was Valley

Rovers 2 , Valley Rovers 3, Mayfield & Tracton. and

with both Tracton and Valley Rovers 3 putting up a

serious fight in their games it was Valley Rovers 2 &

Mayfield who contested in the plate final where it was

Mayfield with a strong display of hurling to take a

comfortable win against Valley Rovers 2.

Pictured above Cup finalists Valley Rovers and Cashel

King Cormac’s

In the Cup competition, it was Valley Rovers 1, Cashel

King Cormacs, Bride Rovers & Ballinhassig who

contested this competition.

Very little separated all these teams it was Valley

Rovers 1 & Cashel King Cormacs who fought out an

excellent final where Valley Rovers 1 done enough to

win the Martin Muldoon Cup.

Captaining the Valley Rovers 1 team it was Enda

Muldoon who was presented with the cup by his

grandfather on behalf the Muldoon family.

Valley Rovers would like to thank all involved in the

organising of this tournament to parents, friends and

family who supplied and helped out with food and

refreshments. To the teams that participated and the

referees Paul Hoey and Pat O Leary, to the Valley

Rovers U-11s who came into the Tournament at such

short notice.

A special thank you to the Muldoon Family who put up

the plate and cup in memory of Martin.

This was a memorable day for all involved and will no

Valley Rovers GAA

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doubt remain an important day in the Valley Rovers

calendar.

Martin Muldoon Memorial hurling tournament plate

winners: Mayfield

Martin Muldoon Memorial hurling tournament Cup

winners: Valley Rovers 1.

UNDER 10’s

Pictured above Valley Rovers & Sam Maguires U10’s

teams who played each other last Saturday morning.