Division 1,3 & 5 Doubles Championships

The division 1,3 &5 men’s and ladies championships took place Friday night last in the Tralee Sports Complex.

Its been great to see such good entries in all the championships that have been played already this year and Friday night was no different.

Many thanks to all those who helped to run the competition on the night. There were some brilliant games played out on the night but in the end these are the results.

Division 5 Men: Junior Griffin Perpetual Cup

Winners: Stephen Cotter & Jack Muldarry (Killarney)

R. Up: Hassin Ahmed & Driss Lecointe (Killarney)

Division 5 Ladies: Eileen Roche Perpetual Cup

Winners: Stacey McCoy (Ballyheigue) & Fiona Buckley (Moyvane)

R. Up: Lauren O’Driscoll (Kingdom) & Sinead McElligott (Listowel)

Division 3 Men:

Winners: Cian Liston (Listowel) & Michael Collins (Moyvane)

R. Up: Brendan Carroll & Jobin Johnson (Ballyheigue)

Division 3 Ladies:

Winners: Adele O’Brien (Killarney) & Josie Gilbert (Ballyheigue)

R. Up: Ava McKay (Listowel) & Jessica O’Loughlin (Kingdom)

Division 1 Ladies:

Winners: Niamh Hickey (Killarney) & Saorcha Fitzgerald (Moyvane)

R. Up: Edel Broderick & Miriam Rohan (Kingdom)

Division 1 Men:

Winners: Fergal Hannon (Listowel) & Alan Nelligan (Kingdom)

R. Up: Eric Nelligan & Tom Bourke (Kingdom)

Next up is the division 2 & 4 doubles which takes place on Friday the 3rd of March in the Tralee Sports Complex. Hope to see you all there!

Kerry Juvenile Boys & Girls Singles Championships

On Saturday, the juvenile Singles championships were held in the Killarney Sports and Leisure complex. With almost 8hrs of brilliant badminton played by the kids on the days to easy to see that the future of Kerry badminton is very bright. On the day, 125 kids from all the different clubs across the county took part and 150 high quality games were played. But once again, Listowel came out the big winners with their members taking home all 8 titles.

The results were as follows:

Girls:

U10 Winner: Anna O’Neill (Listowel)

R. Up: Aoibhinn Lyne (Annascaul)

U12 Winner: Alexia Belov Flanagan (listowel)

R. Up: Lauren McHugh (Milltown)

U14 Winner: Nicole Vesko (Listowel)

R. Up: Kate Harmon (Kingdom)

U16 Winner: Kate Nolan (Listowel)

R. Up: Sinead Kelly (Listowel)

Boys:

U10 Winner: Sean Kelly (Listowel)

R. Up: Donagh Moloney (Moyvane)

U12 Winner: Brendan Moriarty (Listowel)

R. Up: Jontie Wieland (Listowel)

U14 Winner: Ben McElligott (Listowel)

R. Up: Ciaran Moriarty (Listowel)

U16 Winner: Oscar McElligott (Listowel)

R. Up: Evan Lemass (Killarney)

Plate:

U10

Girls: 1st Lily Ryan (Moyvane) 2nd Mary O’Sullivan (Milltown) 3rd Ava Phelan (Annascaul)

Boys Winner: Aodhan Kennedy (Annascaul) 2nd Sean O’Currain (Annascaul)

U12

Girls Winner: Muireann Curran (Annascaul) 2nd Georgia Ashe (Annascaul)

Boys Winner: Elliot Hudson (Tralee) 2nd Luke Fallon (Listowel)

U14

Girls Winner: Triona Prenderville (Listowel) 2nd Anna Lyons (Moyvane)

Boys Winner: Charlie Henderson (Listowel) 2nd Jamie Hudson (Listowel)

U16

Girls Winner: Emilie Keane Stack (Listowel) 2nd Carol Leahy (Killarney)

Boys Winner: Benedek H Csorba (Kingdom) 2nd Daire McCarthy (Milltown)

Thanks to all for coming alone, it was great to see the kids enjoying playing the sport. Also a big thank you to Suzanne and her helpers for running the competition on the day.

Finally, Kerry had 3 teams that travelled to UL to play in the Munster Intercounty graded team competition in association with Lee Strand Milk. It was the turn of grades C, E & G to play.

Grade C:

In grade C, only 3 counties entered the competition. Kerry, Cork and Tipperary. On the day, our Kerry team came out on top after beating Tipperary 9.0 on games and then beating Cork as well 6.2 taking home the Betty Thompson Cup. The team will now go forward and represent Munster in the all Irelands in Dublin in May.

Grade E

All 6 counties had teams in the grade E competition on the day and it was eventually won out by Waterford after they beat Cork 5.1 in the final. Kerry were in the group with Waterford and Tipperary and did very well. They beat Tipperary 5.4 and then went on to play Waterford and were beaten 6.3 on games. It was great to have our very own Junior Griffin present on the day to present his namesake cup to the winning grade E team.

Grade G

Once again, all 6 counties had teams playing in this competition. Kerry were in the side of Limerick and Clare. In there first game they beat Clare 8.1 and then went on to play Limerick in the second group game. This one was a much closer affair with many of the games going to 3 sets and going all the way down to the wire. In the end Limerick came out winners 6.2. They then went on to play Cork in the final and were beaten 5.4.

A big thank you and well done must be given to all the players for travelling and competing on the day and also to the managers of the teams, Tom & Edel (Grade C), Peggy & Paudie (Grade E) and John & Kieran (Grade G).

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