SAINT GABRIELS 2010 SEASON MATCH REPORTS

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EASY FIX FINALS & GERTIE KELLY CUP SUMMARY

St Gabriels GAA club hosted their annual Gertie Kelly and Easy Fix Blitz matches in Kilconnell pitch on Friday 25th of june and Saturday 26th of june in Kilconnell pitch.
In glorious sunshine over 30 games of football took place with over 300 children  participating   over the two day event.   The Gertie Kelly blitz was held on Friday evening with teams Ballinasloe, St Gabriels, Caltra, Monivea, Kilkerrin/Clonberne, Loughrea and Menlough taking part. St Gabriels and Loughrea played the B final on Friday evening. With a great crowd watching and a great match St Gabriels were the stronger team and played with great determination and had a great win. Well done lads it was a terrific perfomance. On Saturday St Gabriels and Kilkerrin/Clonberne played the Gertie Kelly A final and Kilkerrin/Clonberene were the better team and had a great win. Well done to them. Our Easy-fix blitz matches are sponsored by Easy-fix (Michael Earls) Thanks to Easyfix for their sponsorship for the past few years. It is greatly appreciated. The Easy-fix c final was between St Brigids and Corofin with St Brigids defeating Corofin. In the B final St Brendans defeated Monivea-Abbey, and in the A final Mountbellew/Moylough defeated St Gabriels. Well done to all the teams that took part and their mentors for their participation and co-operation with the blitz's. Thanks to our referees for doing a great job on the two days Paul Quinn, Frank Coyne, Davy Larkin and Larry Lohan. All the children and mentors were treated to Barbeque and refreshments afterwards. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event an enjoyable time for all the children and a great success for the club.

JUNIOR A MAKE PROGRESS IN NORTH BOARD

St Gabriels were victorious over Killererin in the second round of the North Board Junior A championship played in menlough last Saturday evening. From the start St GABRIELS got the better of the exchanges and with some great early points from James Dillon St Gabriels lead at half time by 7pts to 1pt. In the second half as expected Killererin fought back and closed the gap on St Gabriels but St Gabriels held on for a great victory.  TEAM-  Davy Larkin, Gary McLoughlin, Noel Kelly, Pauric Larkin, David Kenny Ronan Quinn, Lorcan Mitchell, James Dillon, Sean Whyte, Gerard Donnellan, Patrick Finn, Thomas Callanan, Kevin McDonagh, Barry Shea,ommy Shea, Subs- Cathal Cormican, Ciaran Mannion, Referee Tony Melia. Scorers;  James Dillon  4pts, B. Shea 1pt, K. McDonagh 1pt,  S. Whyte 3pts. Well done lads keep up the good work. St GABRIELS junior a team play Annaghdown in the next round of junior a championship next weekend. Final Score St Gabriels 9pts to KiLLERERIN 6pts. 

St Gabriels Junior A Championship 
St Gabriels played Tuam Stars on sunday 30th of May in Mountbellew. From the start Tuam stars had the upper hand and were 1g and 3pts before we registered a point on the board. The half time score was Tuam Stars 1g and 8pts to St Gabriels 1pt.
The second half was more fruitful for us but to little to late as Tuam edged on and won on a scoreline of St Gabriels 6pts to Tuam Stars 1g and 13pts.  Hard luck lads and  Onwards and upwards as St Gabriels have two more bites at the cherry. They have yet to play Kilererin and Annaghdown in this Championship group . 

U16 SEASON SUMMARY SO FAR

We started of our campaign with a home game against Milltown on the 13th april in Kilconnell and we proved too strong for the visitors and ran out easy winners. The match referee was martin gavin. For our next game we travelled to Annaghdown and a close even match it was too with the visitors winning in the end but the result was somewhat soured by a serious wrist injury to Thomas Hynes who was taken to hospital as a result and we all wish him a steady and strong recovery from this injury. Many thanx to Martina of Annaghdown and parents on the night for their valuable help. Referee was Tom Flaherty for this match.

Our next match was also away to Kilconly this time at the Kilbannon GAA pitch and with the drizzly damp weather it took St Gabriels the entire first half to find their feet indeed it took a half time talk by manager Seamus Coughlan to get the lads up and running for the second half, with the score 1-4 to 1-3 in St Gabriels favour at the resumption the players knew what was expected from the management team. And step up to the plate they did restricting the home side to a single point all half and winning the game at a canter with another 3 goals and 5 points.referee for this match was Gerry Keating. Then so to our next match which was at home against our neighbours and great rivals St Kerrills. On the evening we proved too strong and had a convincing win despite missing players. This match was followed by the return game on tuesday 18th may were in atrocious weather conditions the lads lost narrowly by a single point despite never really finding their rythm. At the end the St Kerrills team celebrations told its own story with St Gabriels not performing on the night and with this match now comes a break until june where more academic pursuits will keep them occupied for a while! 
Junior A Match Summary 
St Gabriels played annaghdown on sunday 2nd may in kilconnell pitch in their league match. ST Gabriels were the better team in the first half and with the wind in our favour  were unfortunate not to have put more scores on the scoreboard by half time. Score at half time st gabriels 4pts to annaghdown 1g 2pts.   In the second half annaghdown upped their game took some great points. St Gabriels james dillon scored a goal but time ran out and annaghdown won on a scoreline of st gabriels 1g 6pts to Annaghdown 1g 10pts. 

MALONES CHARGES KEEP CHARGING!!!

 
St Gabriels enjoyed a good win over neighbours Ballinasloe on friday evening, Gabriels enjoyed most of the possession in the first half but were not converting it all to scores, that being said Gabriels were up by seven points at half time. In the first half luke o'connor, jason daly and ja manion were showing well in the forwards with sean collins and declan cronin well on top in midfield. Aaron Duane and Mike O'rourke along with Gavin Daly were rock solid in the full line. The second half started with gabriels scoring the first point, at this stage ballinasloe rallyed and came back and scored a goal. From the kick out gabriels went up the field and after some great work by David Maher gabriels got a goal back straight away, from this point on there was only going to be one winner. The half back line of Darren Kenny, Darragh Coen and Daniel Nevin started to dominate with the result being that very little ball got through to our goals, Ethan Molloy brought off a cracker of a save to go with the one he made in the first half. Gabriels were now moving the ball fast and direct putting ballinasloe under a lot of pressure, with the room created by the fast ball Gary Connelly and Jason Daly linked up well with the other forwards to create scores. With about 10 minutes remaining gabriels emptied their bench and no sooner was this done when the move of the match took place with Dara Collins getting a peach of a goal. All in all it was a good team performance by gabriels and it is great to see Shane Regan getting back into form after a long layoff. The St gabriels team lined out as follows Eathan Molloy, Mike O'Rourke, Gavin Daly, Aarron Duane, Darragh Coen, Daniel Nevin, Darren Kenny, Declan Cronin, Sean Collins (capt), Luke O'Connor, Ja Mannion, Shane Regan, David Maher, Gary Connelly, Jason Daly, Aaron Dunne, Dara Collins, Niall Coen, Pakie Garvey and Colin Lyons. 

U14's KEEP IT GOING AWAY IN ANNAGHDOWN

The u14 team travelled to annaghdown on friday evening for the third round of the league. Gabriels started slowly and were behind by four points ten minutes into the first half before Ja Mannion scored the first of his goals, this was quickly followed by a well taken goal by Aidan Grenham, at this stage Declan Cronin and Sean Collins started to get on top in the middle of the field while Darren Kenny and Aaron Duane started to come very strong into the game. At half time gabriels were up by two points, Gabriels started the second half very strong with Ja Mannion getting a cracker of a goal.The half back line of Daniel Nevin, Daniel Dunne and Darren Kenny were well on top at this stage which meant more ball going into the gabriels forwards with Pakie Garvey, Luke O'Connor and Niall Coen all getting on the score sheet. St gabriels went on to win by eleven points, a very good performance by all. The st gabriels team lined out as follows. Ethan Molloy, Aaron Duane, Michael O'Rourke, Daniel Dunne, Darren Kenny, Aaron Dunne, Sean Collins, Declan Cronin, David Maher, Shane Regan, Ja Mannion, Luke O'Conor, Gary Connelly, Aidan Grenham, Daniel Nevin, Pakie Garvey Colin Lyons, Niall Coen & Eamon quinn.

ST GABRIELS G.A.A U14's AT THE FEILE 
St Gabriels U14's panel with Manager Mike Malone and Mentor Jimmy Connelly travelled to Williamstown to take part in the feile last Saturday. They were accompanied by Glenamanddy, Cortoon and Williamstown. They had fantastic wins over the other three sides Glenamaddy, Cortoon and Williamstown. They had played Williamstown first and won on a scoreline of St Gabriels 1g 5pts to 3pts. St Gabriels then went on to play Cortoon and had a good win against them and this culminated in St Gabriels playing Glenamaddy and the winners of this qualify would be semi-final bound. A great game of football with St Gabriels 2pts down with two minutes to go and going onto score two last minute goals winning on a scoreline of St Gabriels 2g 5pts to Glenamaddy 6pts. St Gabriels qualified for the semi-final. The club would like to thank co-ordinator Oliver Lennon and his club for their hospitality, Referees: Aidan Potter, Noel Finnegan and Larry Lohan, and to the ladies who provided refreshments for all during the day. St Gabriels then travelled to Tuam for the semi-final where they were beaten by a stronger Craughwell side, which we congratulate on winning the final on Sunday. Well done to the U14 panel who are a credit to the club. Thanks to Charlie Warde for Refereeing the Semi-final. Thanks to all the supporters who came along to cheer our boys on. They had a very enjoyable day, which ended with a treat in Supermacs.
 

ST GABRIELS JR C RUN IT CLOSE AGAINST BALLINASLOE  
St Gabriels junior c team played ballinasloe in kilconnell on sunday 18/4/10. A good and entertaining game of football for all who were there to watch it. St Gabriels and Ballinasloe battled it out with the sides level at half time which was turning out to be a hard fought and close game to call. St Gabriels were 1g 3pts to 6pts for ballinasloe at half time. At the resumption Ballinasloe were the better team in the second half and were able to pull away from the home side and won on a scoreline of st gabriels 2g 5pts to 2g 10pts to Ballinasloe.
Scoring for St Gabriels were S. Golderick 2pts, J. Dillon1g 1pt, N. Coughlan 1g, 1pt, C. Donnellan 1pt

 
JUNIOR A UNLUCKY AGAINST SHAMROCKS

ST GABRIELS junior a team played Cortoon Shamrocks on saturday evening 17/4/10 in Cortoon at 6 30 p.m. St Gabriels got off to a great flying start scoring the first goal of the match with Patrick Finn who scored it. At half time st gabriels were 1g 4pts to Cortoon Shamrocks 1g 7pts with only a goal seperating the teams. Cortoon shamrocks picked up a gear and played well in the second half and the game moved away from st gabriels. Niall Coughlan scored a great goal for st gabriels in the second half which really was the high point of the evening and gave a glimmer of hope to the visitors on the night but Cortoon went on and won the match on a scoreline of St Gabriels 2g 7pts to Cortoon Shamrocks 2G 11pts.

JUNIOR C V GLINSK kilconnell 11/04/10

St gabriels junior c team played glinsk in a league match in kilconnell on Sunday 11th of April at 1.30 p.m. Saint Gabriels started the better team and were up two points to no score in the first five minutes but this was undone when Glinsk scored a goalbut St Gabriels came roaring back with some excellent performances and scored a goal and were up 2g 6pts to 1g-4pts Glinsk at half time. At the change around Saint Gabriels took the game to Glinsk and were rewarded for a powerful running and passing game and scored 1g and 7pts in the second half with some great free taking by Pierce Dillon. Glinsk fought back but were beaten on a scoreline of St Gabriels 3g 13pts to Glinsk 1g 6pts. 

JUNIOR A & C UPDATES

JUNIOR A LEAGUE 
The first outing for the junior a team was in milltown on saturday the 27th of march at 4.30 p.m.  While st gabriels had a lot of possession milltown were the better team and won the game on a scoreline of Milltown 3g 6pts to St Gabriels 9pts. 

JUNIOR C LEAGUE 
The first outing for the junior c team was in williamstown on sunday morning the 28th of march in williamstown. Williamstown proved just too strong on the day for st gabriels and won on a scoreline of st gabriels 4pts to williamstown 4g 6pts. 

ST GABRIELS V DUNMORE MCHALES U21 CHAMPIONSHIP 
Pat Finn's U21 ST GABRIELS squad went up against Dunmore McHales in the u21 Championship on Sunday last 7th of march in a re-arranged fixture that took place on Glenamaddy pitch. On a lovely sunny day that was well suited for free flowing football the two teams were evenly matched against each other in the early stages of the match with Dunmore leading at half time. St Gabriels had been very unlucky not to have scored two goals in the first half with one hitting the cross bar. Half time score was Dunmore 8pts to St Gabriels 1g and 2pts. In the second half McHales got the rub of the green and were lucky to score a goal from a penalty in the first five minutes after having one disallowed just after half time. As the game progressed they took the game to a hard pressed St Gabriels and started to pull away and won the game well in the end with the final score being St Gabriels 1g 4pts, Dunmore 3g 12pts.
Scoring for St Gabriels were S. Whyte, 2pts, E. Malone 1g, N. Coughlan 1pt, S. Kenny 1pt,