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The Kerry Juvenile Mixed Doubles Badminton Championships was played at Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre Saturday 25 March. The Winners & Runners Up’ Jontie Weiland, Alexia B Flanagan, Margaret Carmody, Brendan Moriarty, Listowel.
Juvenile Mixed Doubles Championships
The final juvenile competition of the year took place this past Saturday the 25th of March in the Killarney sports and leisure centre. Although many young player don’t really like playing mixed, there was still over 130 players competing on the day.
Once again, it was great to see such a high level of badminton being played by the young players in the county. As I’ve said all year, the future of Kerry badminton is very bright.
Once again, it was the Listowel club that dominated the medals as they took all 4 mixed doubles championships. In doing this, they have completed a clean sweep of the juvenile championships this year.
A big congratulations to 6 players in particular as they completed the treble in their respective age categories, winning the singles, doubles and mixed championships. They were:, Anna O’Neill, Sean Kelly, Alexia Belov Flanagan, Nicole Vesko, Kate Nolan and Oscar McElligot.
The results on the day were as follows:
U10
Winner: Anna O’Neill & Sean Kelly (Listowel)
R.Up: Emily Wolska & Josiah Weiland (Listowel)
Plate
Winner: Rachel Coviet & Jack Boyle (Tralee)
R.Up: Saoirse Laide & Mikey McCarthy.
U12
Winner: Alexia Belov Flanagan & Jontie Weiland (Listowel)
R.Up: Margaret Carmody & Brendan Moriarty (Listowel)
Plate
Winner: Gwen O’Sullivan (Kingdom) & Tomas O’Currain (Annascaul)
R.Up: Georgia Ashe & Eoin Lyne (Annascaul)
U14
Winner: Nicole Vesko & Daniel Weiland (Listowel)
R.Up: Triona Prenderville & John Joe Carmody (Listowel)
Plate
Winner: Kate Barry & Joe Barry (Listowel)
R.Up: Lilianna Walukanus (Miltown) & Dylan Walsh (Kingdom)
U16
Winner: Kate Nolan & Oscar McElligot (Listowel)
R. Up: Sameera Hayes & Darius McCormack (Annascaul)
Plate
Winner: Aine Curran (Annascaul) & Biprojit Ghosh (Killarney)
R.Up: Lidija Samaskaite & Ryan Henderson (Listowel)
Finally a big thank you must go out to Suzanne and the whole Kerry juvenile committee who ran each of the juvenile competitions this year and also to all of the Kerry clubs and of course the players who came along and played in each of the competitions it is always great to see such a big interest in the sport in our younger players and hopefully they will continue to play into the future and onto senior level as well.
The Ballyheigue Patrick Corridon Memorial Badminton Tournament was played at Ballyheigue Community Centre Sunday 26 March. Winners of Division 5 in action
Jofin David, Tralee & Rita Knightly Annascaul
The Ballyheigue Patrick Corridon Memorial Badminton Tournament was played at Ballyheigue Community Centre Sunday 26 March. Winners & Runners Up of the Division 4 Competition.
Rita McCarthy, Listowel, Alvin Rahmad, Killarney, Adrian Reidy, Ballyheigue, Kathleen Kilbride Ballyheigue
Brewster Cup 2023.
On Sunday last, the Brewster Cup took place in Cappoquin, Waterford. The Brewster Cup is a team competition in Munster where each county is represented by a team. This year, Kerry, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford all entered teams to play.
The teams were fairly evenly matched, in their first game, the Kerry team went down to Waterford in 6 games to 3 after some very closely contested games. In their second game, Kerry played Cork in once again a very close affair in the end Cork came out on top on a score line of 5 games to 4.
Finally in their final game of the day, Kerry played Tipperary and came out on top after it came down to the 3rd and final mixed game where Kerrys Cathal Donovan and Michelle Beazley came out on top in a 3 set affair after losing the first. 18-21,24-22,26-24! Kerry finished 3rd on the day.
The team was as follows:
Kelvin McNally, Donie Enright, Fergal Hannon, Cathal Donovan, Gio Gaudino, Helen Browne, Michelle Beazley, Jennifer Nash, Sinead Galvin, Deina Vesko.
Grade E Nationals
Grade E nationals took place on Saturday in Baldoyle, Dublin. A big congratulations must be sent to Kelvin McNally (Listowel) who made 2 out of the 3 finals (singles and Doubles) and will compete on graded finals day, the 13th of May. Well done must also be said to Aaron Tan who made it to the semifinals of the singles.
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