Celbridge v Coill Dubh : U-13 Autumn League

Result: Celbridge 14-6 : Coill Dubh 0-01 Date: 29th Aug 2014 Our U-13 Autumn leauge campaign opened with a home fixture against Coill Dubh. Thankfully the rain stayed away allowing the match to be played in decentconditions. Unfortunately Coill Dubh could only field 11 players so the game which should have been played on a full sized pitch with 15-a-side had to amened to a shorted pitch. This did not impact on our performance however. We were missing Ross - who has a broken arm (not hurling related!), get well soon Ross - Aaron (watch out for those wasps !) , and Tom from the squad. From the throw-in the lads dominated their opponents and played well, doing the right things most of the time. We played with the aid of the breeze in the first half and went in 6-8 to 0-0 up at the break. A good score but we still had a number of wides. In the second half we continued to dominate, never giving Coill Dubh any chance to get back into the game, and ran out comfortable winners on a scoreline of 14-6 to 0-01. This was our first game at U-13 level and therefore our first game playing full rules. The win was built on playing quick, direct, hurling while tacking hard and supporting each other while in possession. There were lots of great performances on the night but perhaps the score of the evening was an individual effort from Ryan Kenna who soloed up from defence and unleashed a great shot to the net. Niall was top scorer with 5-2, Oisin bagged 3-1, Shane got 2-0, Colman, Ryan K, Sean and Ciaran all got 1-0 each, Conor got 0-2 (and could have score more if the radar was working :)), and finally Liam scored 0-01. Every player contributed well and worked hard - Johnny was unlucky to see a few efforts go wide, Jack and Fiachra worked hard in the forwards, while Dean did very in his first competitive game for us - he won a ball and laid off a beautiful hand pass for Sean to score. All the backs played well although at times they did not see too much of the ball - Harry, Ryan M and Tadhg all were solid in defence, breaking out with the ball when necessary and providing a good supply into the forwards. Aidan made a couple of good saves and as usual his clearances and puck outs were excellent.  There will be much tougher games to be played, starting with next Friday 5th Sep away to Maynooth who we know are a very strong team. Its important that everyone comes to training on Wed evenings and Sunday mornings to improve their skills and our team performances. We will be making up part of the Feile squad in 2015 so we all need to constantly work hard in training to ensure that our matchday performances improve to a higher standard. Daragh & Ciaran

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Christy Ring Cup at Nursery hurling

Christy Ring Cup visits the Nursery

There was great excitement on Sunday morning when Kildare and Celbridge star full-back Fiachra O'Muineacháin brought the Christy Ring cup to visit our Nursery hurlers.

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