North Antrim U12 Division 3 Indoor Hurling Winners
Monday, January 31, 2011
Last Saturday in front of a large crowd at the Seven Towers Leisure Centre in Ballymena, Creggan’s ‘young guns’ won the North Antrim U12 Division 3 Indoor Hurling Final.
After qualifying undefeated for the Division 3 final the previous week in Swatragh with 4 wins and 1 draw, Creggan went in to the final as favourites. There, they were up against a very tough Dungannon side who they had previously beaten 5 goals to nil. However, as expected, Dungannon were a much different team in the final. After conceding an early goal to a penalty, Creggan showed their ‘true grit’ and determination by scoring two hard earned goals, to win 2 goals to 1, with Kealan McCann scoring both.
It was however a superb overall team performance and special mention must go to goalkeeper Liam Quinn who at 1 nil down, and ‘staring down the barrel of a gun’ pulled off an amazing reflex save.
Great credit to the whole panel who performed and behaved superbly over the previous two qualifying weeks, as well as in the final itself. Good luck to the U10’s, whose indoor competition commences this weekend.
The winning U12 panel was:
Eunan McAteer
Liam Quinn
Tiarnan McAteer
Cormac McCann
Liam McCann
Kealan McCann
Dermot Carey
Jamie McCann
Hugh McCann (North Antrim Committee) is seen presenting the Division 3 winners shield to captain Dermot Carey.