Club Notes - 9th September 2018

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COACHING NEWS  (WK 37 2018) 
A. U12 Football & Hurling Skills Competition
Regional Football competition being held on Tuesday 18th of September at 7.00pm in Ballyforan
 
From that, 4 teams will qualify for our County Final on Thursday evening the 27th of September at 6.30pm in Kilbride.
Connaught U12 Football Skills finals are on Friday October 5th at 7pm in the Connacht COE.
Connaught U12 Hurling Skills finals are on Friday October 12th at 7pm in the Connacht COE.
 
B. Fundamental Movement Skills - ABC Class  
Our club has arranged a Fundamental Movement Skills (ABC) class on Monday night 10 Sept. Start Time is 8pm.
Venue is Convent Gym.
All coaches welcome.

C. Our Club Coaches – 2018

U12 Boys Football : Gareth Carroll, Ollie McGuinness, Trevor Finneran, Gary Dunne, Derek Dolan, Paul Beisty
(missing from photo : Seamus Carthy, David Fallon, Marty Rodgers.

Camogie
U10 Camogie:
Roscommon Gaels hosted a U10 County Camogie blitz on Saturday morning. The blitz was well attended and there was a total of 12 teams, 3 of which were Roscommon Gaels. A great morning of Camogie was had by all. Well done to everyone who participated and all the teams performed brilliantly on the day. Thanks to all the parents who kindly brought refreshments and served Tea & Coffee to all who attended. Training continues as normal on Friday evenings until further notice. 

Well done to the girls from Roscommon Gaels    Roisin Feeley, Ellen Biesty, Ava Mulry and Ellen Tully who were part of the Roscommon U14 team who won the All Ireland today in Dublin. The future is looking good for Camogie in Roscommon.

​Well done to the 3 Roscommon Gaels players who made it onto the U17 Connaught camogie panel for the inaugural U17 Provincial Camogie Development competition run at DCU sports grounds yesterday. Isobelle Cullen, Ella Killion, Mia Fallon well done girls.  

LGFA 
Busy day for our Roscommon Gaels Footballers, we had lots of girls playing County in Beacon today well done to our U13 girls Sarah Purcell , Eimear O’Connor, Zara Fallon, Jenifer Morris, Caitlin Hannon & Shauna Walsh and well done to our U15 girls Sioda McGuinness, Emma Crean, Shauna Regan & Niamh Kelly   

Busy day for our Roscommon Gaels Footballers, we had lots of girls playing County in Beacon today well done to our U13 girls Sarah Purcell , Eimear O’Connor, Zara Fallon, Jenifer Morris, Caitlin Hannon & Shauna Walsh and well done to our U15 girls Sioda McGuinness, Emma Crean, Shauna Regan & Niamh Kelly   

Pictured are Niamh Kelly and Shauna regan who were part of the U15 Development  Panel who played in a blitz in Beacon yesterday.

Football
Nursery Programme:
On Saturday the 1st of September in lismamult the nursery group were joined by there family and friends to show off the skills that they worked for previous 20 training sessions. 

The lads were presented with jerseys kindly sponsored by DNA logistics (thanks Deirdre)which hopefully will be the first of many 
Gaels jerseys to be worn by these young footballers for years to come. 

On behalf of the coaches we would to thank all involved throughout the year on making it what we hoped was a successful introduction to Roscommon Gaels and the GAA while keeping it a fun environment for the lads.
After discussion with the u8 management we would like to invite all lads born in 2012 to u8 training on Saturday the 15th of September in lismamult at 10am.The aim is to introduce the nursery group to an  u8 environment for the final 4/5 u 8 training sessions. 

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U9 and U10 Football:
Our U9 & U10’s took part in a tournament hosted by St Mary’s GAA Club, Rochfortbridge. We had three teams involved. Our u9’s won the Cup and our two u10 teams played out the Shield final.
All enjoyed the day. 
Pictured our the U9 and U10 teams that took part in the Tournament hosted by St Mary’s.

​U12 Football: 
Our U12's had a busy week.
Last Saturday (1st) we had 38 players taking part in a tournament hosted by Corofin with teams taking part from Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Westmeath and ourselves from Roscommon. It was a great experience for the lads.

Next up on Monday our Div 1 team had a good win in a great battle with Clann Na nGael. On Thursday evening the same team were out again versus St. Dominic s but on this occasion we went down to a good Dominics side. Finally today, our Div 5 side put in a good performance in overcoming St.Ronans.

Next up is training on Thursday evening as usual and then both teams play their Western Gaels counterparts at lunchtime on Saturday in Lisnamult. 

U14 Football :
Our Reserve lads performed well last Thursday evening against St Dominics narrowly losing out on a score line of 6.8 to 6.6.
 
Our Div 1 lads play Strokestown on Friday evening next in Lisnamult (7pm) in a playoff to decide who reaches the U14 County Final.
 
Minor Football:
Our minor team drew with St. Dominics in Round 5 of the championship in Lisnamult on a score line of 1-11 to 2-8. St. Dominics were the better team in the first half and deservedly led by 5 points at half time. The Gaels were much improved in the second half and put in a great performance to secure a deserved draw. We play Elphin in Lisnamult on Thursday next.

Senior Football:
Our Tommy Connolly sponsored Senior team moved up to second place in the Senior Football Championship Division One table this evening, following their 8-point win over Strokestown at Faithleach’s.

A Cian Connolly Penalty in the 8th-minute helped Roscommon Gaels to open up a 3-point lead (1-1 to 0-1). Within the opening Five minutes of the second-half, James O’Gara registered a goal with a neat finish to the Strokestown net. Peter Gilooly was added to the Gaels attack and was unlucky his goal didn’t click but managed to kick a score later. Mark Nally, Richard Hughes, Cathal Dinneen and Mark Healy helped Roscommon Gaels to keep in touch with well-worked points, but in addition to their contribution it was Cian Connolly who kept the scoreboard ticking away scoring 2 Points from Play 2 frees and a Penalty.  

After suffering defeat to Clann Na Gael early in the Championship and a draw with Boyle last week, The Gaels bounced back this evening with a morale-boosting victory over Strokestown.  Final Score Roscommon Gaels 2-11 Strokestown 0-09.
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Roscommon Gael’s will now face last years County Champions St Brigid’s in their next scheduled championship game on Sunday September 16th.
 
Many thanks to everyone in St Faithleach’s for their hospitality on this evening and for having the pitch in such great condition. 

Hurling
U10 Hurling:
As the end of season approaches, we have a busy few weeks ahead. 
* Thursday 13th Sept - U10's invited to a challenge against Ballygar GAA, in Ballygar. All players requested to be at Ballygar pitch @ 6:30 Thursday evening. This is a great opportunity to compete against strong Galway opposition and challenge our U10's accordingly.
* Friday 21st Sept - Southern Gaels have invited our U10 hurlers to a their hurling Tournament Friday 21st. The tournament will include representatives from 4 counties. We are delighted to be invited to this event and will be a great opportunity for all players to compete against teams from neighboring Counties. More details will follow in the weeks ahead.
Training continues Monday evening @ 6:30pm in Lisnamult. 

U-14 hurling:
U-14 hurling training takes place, as usual, at 6.15 p.m. on Tuesday evening in Lisnamult.