P6 County Down Indoor Hurling games
Venue: Eddie Irvine Centre
Date: 25th January 2015
Thank you to Darren for compiling the report
Photos of today’s team and previous teams at county Down games in Down GAA Twitter
It was our P6’s first run out at the County Down venue. Our opponents on the day were county Down sides Ballycran, Carryduff and Portaferry with St Paul’s Belfast making up the fifth team in the group.
Our first game was against Carryduff and the players hurled brilliantly scoring a lot of goals and recorded a high scoring victory. Our second game was against local side Saint Paul’s. These games are always tight affairs and today was no different. Our players were told that our opponents were going to be strong and we would have to hurl at a high level to get something out of the game. After a slow start where St Paul’s got a couple of goals some of the players positions were rotated and we finally took control of the game and got several scores of our own to take the victory.
Our third game was against Ballycran. Again our team started slowly with our opponents taking an early lead but credit to the players they raised their game and got their third victory of the day. Highlight of the game and probably the day was the score from Niall who had been in the wars all day flipped the sliotar over his opponents head to find some space and had the skill to volley the ball into the back of the Ballycran net. A score which would grace any hurling pitch.
Our final game was against peninsula side Portaferry. This was a very physical tussle from the throw in and both teams seemed to be up for the challenge. Again we were slow starters and our opponents got a early lead. The Og’s came back with some efforts of their own but unfortunately when the final whistle was blown we had been beaten by the slenderness of margins and had been playing probably our best hurling in the latter stages of the game.
Thanks
I would like to thank Conor for organising the games today. Thanks to John for helping with the team and thanks to the parents for travelling and their vocal support for the team. Finally well done to the players today. As we had 9 players and the games are 6 a side there were a lot of changes within the team which probably didn’t help but credit to the players they seemed to adapt to this well. It was also great to see the return to hurling for some players and hopefully they enjoyed their game time in Bangor today. When you combined this with the fantastic performances of the U10s yesterday in the North Antrim league this was a great weekend for our players who are P6 and below.
Brid Og panel
Conor, Daniel, David, James, Niall, Oisin, Owen, Pearse, Thomas
