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Jack Muldarry (Killarney) & Laura O’Connor (Ballybunion) in action and winning the Division 5 Kerry Mixed Doubles title. Photo: Tom Bradley
Division 1,3&5 Mixed Doubles Championship 2023
Friday night last, the division 1,3&5 mixed doubles championships were held in Tralee Sports Complex. It was once again great to see such a good entry in the competition and great games were played out that night. Thanks to all the organisers on the night.
The results are as follows:
Division 5:
Winner: Jack Muldarry(Killarney) & Laura O’Connor (Ballybunion)
R.Up: Fiona Buckley & Martin Stack (Moyvane)
Jill Redmond (Tralee) Kieran Crehan (Killarney) in action and winning the Division 3 Kerry Mixed Doubles title. Photo: Tom Bradley
Division 3:
Winner: Kieran Crehan (Killarney) & Jill Redmond (Tralee)
R.Up: Denise Collins & Michael Collins(Moyvane)
Niamh Hickey (Killarney) Tom Bourke (Castleisland) in action and winning the Division 1 Kerry Mixed Doubles title. Photo: Tom Bradley
Division 1:
Winner: Tom Bourke (Kingdom) & Niamh Hickey (Killarney)
R.Up: Eric Nelligan (Kingdom) & Saorcha
Fitzgerald (Moyvane).
Juvenile Club Tournament
On Saturday last, the annual Juvenile Club Tournament was held.
It was great to see so many young badminton players representing their clubs and play so well. On the day, we had over 140 players playing. The competition was held in Killarney Sports and Leisure Centre.
The club tournament is a fun competition minus all the pressure of county championships where the kids can just enjoy themselves and represent there clubs.
All the players are partnered with other players from different clubs and the clubs earn points through how their player get on in the competitions.
Annascaul Juvenile Club players accepting the Plaque which they wonKerry Juveniles Club Tournament Day. Photo: Tom Bradley
On the day, Annascaul were crowned the overall Club Tournament champions! a The day was full of brilliant games, fun and enjoyment for all involved.
Thanks so much to the Kerry Juvenile Committee who put in lots of work to ensure that the day went off without a hitch. Well done to all the players for representing and making their clubs proud!
The Butterfield Cup
Kerry sent a team down to Cappoquin Saturday to play in the annual Butterfield Cup. This competition had been supposed to be played earlier in the year but due to the weather it had to postponed. On the day, there was 4 counties competing Cork, Clare, Waterford and Kerry.
The Kerry team started the day off well after beating a strong Clare team by 5 games to 4 after it came down to the final mixed game of that game.
The team then went on to play Waterford and beat them in another close game 6 games to 3.
After winning both their first games the team then made it to a final and met a very strong Cork team.
Kerry Butterfield Cup Team who were Runners Up on the Day. Photo: Tom Bourke
Unfortunately after most of the team playing in the mixed championship the night before they ran out of energy and legs became heavy when they lost 6.0 to a very well playing Cork team. But overall the team did very well on the day and came home with a silver medal.
Team:
Edel Kenny, Sinead Galvin, Saorcha Fitzgerald, Niamh Hickey,
Donnie Enright, Ethan Tritschler, Gio Gaudino, Eric Nelligan & Tom Bourke.
The Haynes Plate and Shield
On Sunday, the SETU held the Haynes Plate and Shield Competitions. There was a great entry in the day and a long day was had by all. A huge congratulations to Listowel who won the Haynes Plate competition after beating Waterford 12 sets to 0 and then beating Kilmacthomas in a much closer game 7 sets to 5.
The Listowel Club Haynes Shield Team who were winners on the day. Photo: Trudy Kennedy
Well done to the other Kerry players who represented UL in the Haynes Plate which is a grade F and G competition. UL had 2 teams on the day 1 grade G team and 1 grade F team. Well done to Darragh Crehan (Killarney) and Aoife Bowler (Moyvane) who were both part of the UL grade G team who played very well against stronger grade F teams.
Well done to Adele O’Brien who was part of the UL grade F team that won the competition after a very closely contested final between themselves and Tourin of Waterford. After 12 hours of badminton UL won the final 7 sets to 5 after it came down to the final mixed to decide who the winner would be.
Thanks so much to Munster Badminton for organising the competition and for running it off so well with such a big entry in all of the competitions.
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