Midleton College provided the shock of the pool stages of the All-Ireland Schoolboys Championships at Ballinteer yesterday, ousting 2007 champions Cookstown HS to provide a Munster semi-finalist in this year’s competition.
Cork IT have landed something of a coup by persuading GAA’s Young Footballer of the Year Aidan Walsh and Cork senior hurling panellist Lorcan McLoughlin to line out for them at this weekend’s hockey intervarsities in Dublin.
Cork Harlequins’ superior movement and team-work was central to their 4-1 victory over UCC at the Mardyke, which keeps the pressure up on C of I – 9-1 winners over Catholic Institute – at the top of the table.
Ulster’s domination of age-grade girls hockey shows no signs of abating, as both their U18 and U16 sides claimed their third interprovincial titles in a row with 100% records at Milltown in Dublin.
Craig Wilson’s late goal garnered a losing bonus point from Pembroke’s second Pool F tie in the EuroHockey League in Eindhoven, a result which will help Ireland’s longer term aspirations of holding onto two places in the competition.
Pembroke Wanderers’ place in the last 16 of the EuroHockey League is almost secure, after a stunning late salvo from Brandon Panther secured a 4-3 win over Ukrainian champions Olimpia Kolos Sekvoia in Eindhoven this morning.