By Damien Ahern
Athea Coiste Na nÓg – 27th September 2022
Boys & Girls Football Training:
Nursery, U7– Final training this Friday
U8, U9, U10 & U11 on Friday
Boys Football Training:
U13 – Training finished for the season, well done to all the players.
U15 – Monday @ 7pm in Ballyhahill & Thursday @ 7pm in Glin
U17 – Tuesday @ 8pm in Glin & Friday @ 8pm in Athea
Boys & Girls Hurling Training:
Nursery, U7 & U9 – Final training this Sunday @ 11am
U11 – Training continues this Sunday @ 11am
Boys Hurling Training:
U13 – Training continues this Sunday @ 11am
Please bring gum shields and water.
This week’s Coiste fixtures:
Tuesday 27th September
U11 Boys & Girls Hurling Final match
Monagea V Athea in Monagea V42 DY83 @ 6:45pm
Wednesday 28th September
U15 Boys Football Challenge
St.Senans V SG Athea in Foynes V94 CX60 @ 6:30pm
U9 Boys & Girls Football
Shannon Gaels V Athea in Ballyhahill V94 CF61 @ 6:30pm
Thursday 29th September
U11 Boys & Girls Football
Athea V Duagh in Athea @ 6:45pm
Friday 30th September
End of year football training for Nursery & U7
Sunday 2nd October
U15 Boys Football Challenge
SG Athea V Tarbert in ? @ 11:00am
End of year hurling training for Nursery, U7 & U9
Upcoming:
Saturday 8th October
U9 Football – Nigel Buicke Tournament – Castlemahon @ 3pm
Sunday 9th October U15 Boys Football Division 2 Semi Final
SG Athea V Oola in Mick Neville Park V94 AX23 @ 11:00am
U8 Girls
Our super U8’s played 3 great matches against Glin last Wednesday evening, great fun was had! Well done to all and keep practicing those skills.
Our U8’s will play their last game away to Fr Casey’s this Wednesday night 28th September in Abbeyfeale at 6.30pm
U10 Girls
Our U10 girls will play their final game against Gerald Griffins this Saturday at 10.30am in Ballyhahill.
Junior Ladies
Our Junior Ladies exited the championship on Sunday morning against a determined Ahane team. Despite dominating possession they trailed at half time 4 pts 3 pts, having registered double digits on the wide count.
Athea levelled the game just after half time but the killer blow came minutes later with a well taken goal by Ahane. Athea never gave up till final whistle but countless saves by the Ahane keeper and good defending managed to keep them out.
Many thanks to Mike Reidy for the hours he put in preparing this team, assisted by David O’ Connor and Liz O’ Sullivan.
There is great youth coming through and this team has a bright future.
Junior Men’s
After a gallant effort, Athea were beaten by Croom last Saturday in round 5 of the Junior A Football Championship finishing Athea 3-09 Croom 3-15. Croom now progress to the Semi Finals, with a quarter final spot awaiting Athea. Athea will play Cappamore in the quarter final on Saturday October 1st in Ballybrown at 3pm. Go n-éirí an t-adh libh!
U17
Áth an tSléibhe 0-4 Drom/Broadford 4-10
This was or final group game against one of the top teams in the group played in Dromcollogher. After three wins in a row, we were hopeful of pushing them all the way for the last remaining place in the county championship semi final. We were dealt a blow before the game with two of our players out injured and another sick, which weakened our hand somewhat. Despite conceding an early goal we competed well for the first quarter, working very hard and matching our opponents all over the field. but gradually they began to get on top as we tired. The boys tried their best right to the finish in what was a difficult night. Beidh lá eile againn.
We finished the league programme in joint 3rd place with Croom and St. Kierans, so a play off was required to see which two would go through to the County Div 2 shield semifinal. We were drawn against Croom, which was to be played last Sunday morning in Glin, but we got a walkover, so we are straight into the County semifinal. We will be playing the 4th place team in Div 2b, but we have no date yet. Training is continuing.Foireann v Drom/Broadford.
Aiden Fogarty, Seamus Dillane, Breen Cunningham, Tadhg Ahern, James Lee, Colm Mcnamara, Aiden Healy, Evan Curry, Charlie McDonagh, Rory Cleary, James Broderick, Sean McEnery, Conor Fitzgerald, Adam Bennett, Billy Hogan, Tomás Ahern, Jim Culhane and Fergal Leahy.