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Hazelwood Victorious in Cliffhanger Munster Final

Hazelwood College 3-13
Clonakilty 2-14

Hazelwood College emerged as winners in the nail-biting Senior Munster hurling Final held in the new Mallow GAA complex on Monday. Paddy Sheehy, with literally the last puck of the ball, popped up from Centre-back to score a goal in injury time and secure an historic win for the Dromcollogher School. The Game was played at a fierce pace right from the start with Hazelwood quickest out of the traps. They were leading 0-4 to to 0-1 after ten minutes, Jamie Coughlan opening our account with a pointed free, quickly followed by a great score from midfielder Henry O’Gorman before Coughlan added another two points, one from play and one from a placed ball. Clonakilty responded with two points to bring the margin back to the minimum. Jamie Coughlan sprung to the fore again scoring two fine goals, either side of a Clonakilty point. The first was a fine individual effort, finished with an unstoppable shot after beating his man. The second followed fine interplay between himself and fellow Newtownshandrum man , Gerry lane who was operating in the corner. The last ten minutes of the first half were pretty much all Clonakilty, they racked up 7 points to Hazelwood’s one, which was again provided by Jamie Coughlan to leave Clonakilty leading by a single point at half-time on a scoreline of 0-12 to 2-05. Hazelwood were playing with a reasonably strong breeze in the second half and slowly took control of the game. Jamie Coughlan contributed another four, Henry O’Gorman now on the wing scored another, Patrick O’Regan scored a gem of a point from Midfield, while fellow Feenagh/Kilmeedy man and captain Peter Irwin Scored two fine points. In the first 27 minutes of the second half Clonakilty had only managed a single point, hazelwood looked to be cruising with a 6 point lead. However the game was far from over, Clonakilty scored two goals to leave points level with time up. Agonisingly for the watching Hazelwood supporters Clonakilty then took the lead with a point in injury time, the game looked over but Paddy Sheehy Seized his chance as the ball broke from the Clonakilty full-back and pulled first time – rocketing the ball to the back of the net, with that the referee blew the final whistle to scenes of great celebration. Hazelwood now march on to the All-Ireland final in March after the Ulster champions declined to compete further. The other semi-final sees New-Inn of Galway play a combination of Grauigenamanagh and Thomastown of Kilkenny.

Hazelwood College panel is as follows:
Keith Lacey (Drom/Broadford), Laurence Clarson (Newtownshandrum), Tadgh o’Flynn (Milford), Padraig Cunningham (Kileedy), Seamus O’Connor (Milford), Paddy Sheehy (Tullylease) (1-0), Bryan Hannigan (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Henry O’Gorman (Milford) (0-2), Patrick O’Regan (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Peter Irwin (0-2) (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Padraig Nolan (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Seamus sheehan (Liscarroll), Gerry Lane (Newtownshandrum), Jamie Coughlan (Newtownshandrum) (2-8, 0-6 frees), Jamie Coughlan (Newtownshandrum)
Subs: Darren Lane (Newtownshandrum), Timmy O’Carroll (Drom/Broadford), Ciaran Morrissey(Newtownshandrum), Chris Moxey (Kileedy), Conor O’Brien (Milford), Paul Cantillon (Liscarroll), Micheal Brosnan (Drom/Broadford), Mikey Brosnan (Liscarroll), John Nix (Feenagh/Kilmeedy) Ian Carroll (Liscarroll),

The first photo here is of Seamus Sheehan in action against Clonakility’s Colin Smith.

Second photo is our Captain Peter Irwin (Feenagh-Kilmeedy) receiving the cup from Sean Cooney, fixtures secretary of vocational schools Munster council

Third photo is of the Hazelwood College u/18 hurling team who had thrilling victory over Clonakility Community College on Monday in the Munster Championship.

Hazelwood Win Historic Football Final

Hazelwood College: 3 – 07
Doon C.B.S: 2 – 02

Date: Thursday, 22/01/09.
Venue: Mick Neville Park, Rathkeale.

Congratulations to Hazelwood College’s first year football team on winning their first ‘Limerick Colleges’ football final. This was a great performance by the whole panel and is a well deserved reward for their hard work and training during the year. The final was a great spectacle with Hazelwood deciding to play against the wind in the first half. Hazelwood got off to the perfect start with a goal in the opening minutes scored by Dylan Kelly. Dylan kicked in a high dangerous ball which deceived the Doon goalkeeper and landed high into the back of the net. Damien Lacey, who was dangerous throughout, scored a good point from the right wing after good support play by Sean Flanagan and James O’Brien. Doon replied with a point but this was soon cancelled out by a free from Damien Lacey which was rewarded after a Hazelwood player was fouled going through on goal. Play at this stage was very intense with both sides trying to get on top. Michael Barrett, Eamon Shanahan and Lee Daly were towers of strength at this stage for Hazelwood. Halfway through the first-half Cillian Cagney who was having a good solid game at centre back picked up an injury and was replaced by James Donegan who went on to give an exhibition in the backs for Hazelwood. Doon and Hazelwood exchanged points, with Damien Lacey again the scorer. With five minutes remaining Hazelwood broke up a Doon attacking movement in the half-back line. The ball was worked up to the Hazelwood full-forward line through James Donegan, James Butler and Jason Sheahan with the ball eventually being given to Damien Lacey who rounded the Doon goalkeeper to score Hazelwood’s second goal.

Half time score: Hazelwood 2-03 Doon 0-02

Hazelwood continued as they left off in the first half with a point from Damien Lacey after good support play from James O’Brien and Ronan Lehane. James Butler who was causing havoc for the Doon half-back line all day hit a purple patch and scored a point and followed it up with a fine individual goal. At this point Hazelwood were really on top with the full-back line of Peter Mulcahy, Philip O’Flynn and Denis Murray giving away no opportunities to the Doon full-forward line. However, with ten minutes remaining Doon threw everything they had at Hazelwood and scored two good individual goals which would have been more but for the efforts of Shane O’Callaghan in goals. Hazelwood immediately replied with two fine points from Dylan Kelly and Ronan Lehane. Shortly afterwards the ref blew the final whistle to the joy of the Hazelwood panel and their supporters.

Gerry Bennis presented the cup to James O’Brien who in turn thanked the team / supporters / management and gave three cheers to Doon. Hazelwood College now march on to the semi-final of the Limerick VEC first year competition.
Team trainers Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Kiely would like to thank Darren Coleman (LCAII) for all his help and assistance with the team preparation.

Team: Shane O’ Callaghan (Freemount), Peter Mulcahy (Deel Rgs), Philip O’ Flynn (Milford), Denis Murray (Killeedy), Lee Daly (Tullylease), Cillian Cagney (Ballygran), Eamon Shanaghan (Deel Rgs), Michael Barrett Drom/Broadford), Sean Flanagan (Deel Rgs), Dylan Kelly (Deel Rgs), James O’ Brien (Drom/Broadford), Jamie Butler (Deel Rgs), Damien Lacy (Drom/Broadford) Ronan Lehane (Liscarroll), Jason Sheehan(Tullylease)
Subs: James Donegan (Drom/Broadford), Colm McMahon (Ballygran), Killian O’ Riordan (Deel Rgs), Sean Fehin (Freemount), Micheal Browne (Drom/Broadford), John McDermott (Ballygran), Daniel Leahy (Drom/Broadford), John Matthews (Drom/Broadford), Timothy O’ Connell (Liscarroll), Diarmuid Buckley (Freemount), Daniel Ahern (Killeedy), Darragh Kiely (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Declan Stack (Drom/Broadford) Eoin O’ Sullivan, Cillian Fahy (Drom/Broadford) unavailable due to illness

The successful first year football team.

John Cregan presents the cup to first year football captain James O Brien with trainers Denis Mc Carthy and Brendan Kiely.

Hazelwood College Capture Two Sporting Titles in Two Days!!

It was an extremely busy week at Hazelwood College with both the first year footballers and Junior Camogie team capturing County and Munster titles respectively. The footballers had a great victory over Doon, while the Camogie team quenched Laurel Hill’s hopes of lifting the Junior Camogie Munster Championship Cup with an epic win of 3-6 to 0-2. Next week will continue to huge emphasis on sporting finales as our u/19 basketball team travel to Tallaght to compete in the All Ireland Basket Ball competition on Tuesday, while the u/18 hurlers are facing either Kanturk or Clonakility on Saturday in the Munster Vocational Schools final. Congratulations to both teams were successful in the past week and the very best of luck to our second two teams competing this week.

****Post from Basketball Ireland Website****

All Ireland Schools Cup on Setanta TV

The All-Ireland Schools Cup will once again be covered on Setanta Television from Monday, February 23 – Thursday, February 26.

The programme will be aired each day during this period at 4pm.

Programme 1 (February 23) will feature Boys U-19 Highlights
Programme 2 (February 24) will feature Girls U-19 Highlights – Hazelwood College Match
Programme 3 (February 25) will feature Boys U-16 Highlights
Programme 4 (February 26) will feature Girls U-16 Highlights

Hazelwood College Senior Hurling team are due to play the Munster Vocational Schools Hurling Final next Saturday the 31st of January, unfortunately neither the date nor venue for the final was confirmed by the time of writing as the semi-final between Clonakilty and Kanturk has not yet been played. The senior hurlers began training in earnest last September and began the year in style with a fine win over Harty competitors Doon CBS in the limerick Schools Quarter finals in Doon. First up in the Munster competition was to be Newport of Tipperay, unfortunately a walkover was given and Hazelwood proceeded to the next round without being tested. In the second round tie on October 9th, Cahir were the opposition in Galbally. It was a tight affair for the first twenty minutes but Hazelwood College gradually began to dominate running out 2-10 to 1-4 winners. Next up were Killenaule of Tipperary a game played in Lattin, again Hazelwood College struggled before eventually dominating and running out easy winners on a score of 4-12 to 1-3. For our next game we returned to the Limerick schools scene to play St. John The Baptist, Hospital this performance in Newtownshandrum was the low point of our season and we were deservedly beaten. This game did serve the purpose of putting us in the right frame of mind and our Semi-final performance versus Carrick-On-Suir in early December was probably our best performance yet, a game which we dominated from start to finish winning by a score of 4-25 to 0-3. The final is fixed for next Saturday, feel free to contact the school to inquire of venue and time where hopefully the senior hurlers can take one more step and claim the Munster Hurling crown

Congratulation to the All Ireland U-19 Basketball who only just lost their All Ireland final with some great performances on the day

Match report to follow shortly.

Until then here is what Basketball Ireland had to say about the match

CLONASLEE EDGE FINAL CLASH

27th Jan 2009

 

Clonaslee Vocational School had to pull out all the stops in the final quarter to capture the U19 C Girls All Ireland Schools title after a remarkable third quarter by their opponents Limerick’s Hazelwood College looked like spoiling the party for the Laois girls.

With the score at 36-32 and 4.11 left on the clock the game could have gone either way but Clonaslee’s captain Angelina Rigney stepped up to the free throw line before calmly slotting home four frees to finally kill off the game.

The Laois side’s Ciara O’Donavan was awarded the MVP, topped scored with 13 and alongside Nicole Kelly, Rigney and Conroy where instrumental in their side’s All Ireland success.

The winners settled quickest in the game with Rigney leading from the front with two excellently executed baskets before a lay up from Siobhan Conroy gave the Laois School an early 6-0 advantage.

Hazelwood finally put points on the board with a little over two minutes left in the quarter through a lay up from Marie Flanagan while a superb three point play and lay up from Aoife Leahy got the Limerick team right back in the game.

Clonaslee took a 8-7 lead into the second quarter and slowly built up a nine point lead with great offensive play led by O’Donavan and Kelly as they cut through Hazelwood’s defence with ease.

So with a combined scoring of 13 points between the duo the Laois school headed in at the break with a commanding 28-12 lead.  However the third period of play was all about one team, Hazelwood, who finally got to grips with the game outscoring their opponents by 16-8.

At the forefront of their comeback was Flanagan who registered nine points from open play and off the free throw line, while baskets from Meaney, Celia Cremin and Leahy handed them the initiative despite trailing by 34-28 going into the final quarter.

Hazelwood kept up the pressure by adding to their score courtesy of inside baskets from Emma Purcell and Celia Cremin but it was coolness personified when Rigney stepped up when they pressure was on that proved the difference.

Pictures from the match taken by Sportsfile – Irelands Sports Photography Agency are available to buy at:

http://www.sportsfile.com/search/Basketball/hazelwood/

Best of the luck to the All Ireland Finalists the u/19 basketball team who play next Tuesday 27th January at the National Basketball Arena, TallaghtSupport Welcome.

Front Row

Emma Purcell (Captain), Niamh Greaney, Jennifer Roche, Suzanne Sheehy, Miriam Noonan, Maria Korpesiova

Front Row

Máire Flanagan, Celia Cremin, Ciara Meaney, Vickie Harnett, Aoife Leahy
 

Our Junior Camogie team have reached the Munster Final Vs Laurel Hill on Saturday 24th January, this is a huge achievement for the girls. Below is a photo of the team following their semi final victory over St Angelas, Cork

Back Row: Niamh Cagney (Ballagran); Gemma Barrett (Kileedy); Katie Dillane (Milford); Breda Larkin (Kileedy); Aideen O Flynn (Milford); Caroline Watson (Milford); Grainne Sheehy (Milford); Ciara Fitzgibbon (Milford); Loretta Hanley (Ballagran); Sarah Moloney (Newtown); Aisling O Brien (Knockaderry); Sarah O Sullivan (Feenagh); Niamh O Brien (Milford); Orla Cunnigham (Kileedy)

Front Row:
Katie O Leary; Norma Kiely; Kallie Hodgson (Milford); Joanne Murray (Kileedy); Máire Flanagan, Captain (Milford); Amy Ryan (Newtown); Katie Coughlan (Newtown); Kara Clifford (Newtown); Katie O Sullivan (Feenagh); Deirdre Cunnigham (Kileedy); Helen Bradley (Milford); Emer Cunnigham (Kileedy)

 

Hazelwood Hurlers Reach Munster Final

The semi final was a tough encounter with Carrick on Suir scoring a point within the first minute.  Hazelwood quickly responded with a free and began their scoring spree.  Hazelwood dominated the remainder of the first half with every player playing to their full potential.                           

Patrick O Regan opened the scoring in the second half with a point from play. Carrick On Suir scored their 4^th point of the day from a free in the 32^nd minute. A quick puck-out to Seamus Sheehen resulted in the ball in the back of the net after Jamie Coughlan connecting supremely with the sliotar.  Soon after “big” Jamie Coughlan scored his 2^nd point of the day, along with Jerry Lane adding another score to his tally. Carrick On Suir getting another score from a free.  Another Hazelwood goal resulted from a placed ball.  At this stage the game was over and Hazelwood cruised to victory.  Great performances were seen at all corners of the field.  The Munster final is due to be played after Christmas against the winners of Kanturk and Clonakility.  

Hazelwood College Team: Keith Lacey, Lar Clarrson, Tadgh O Flynn, Padraigh Cunningham, Seamus O Connor, Paddy Sheehy, Brian Hannighan, Seamus Sheehen, Patrick O Regan0-2, Peter Irwin1-3, Padraig Nolan, “big” Jamie Coughlan0-3, Jerry Lane1-3, “small” Jamie Coughlan, Darren Lane 0-2. Subs used Conor O Brian, Ciaran Morrissey0-3, Paul Cantilon, Ian Carrol, Christopher Moxey,

Hazelwood Reach first All-Ireland Final

 

Hazelwood College advanced to the final of the U19 C All Ireland Schools Basketball Cup on Wednesday the 7^th of January with a well deserved victory over a gallant Presentation Terenure side.

 

Hazelwood started slowly and were punished by some good outside shooting from Terenure.   After a quick timeout, a reorganised Hazelwood defence closed Terenure down more effectively.   Baskets from Vickie Harnett, Miriam Noonan, Emma Purcell and Celia Cremin kept Hazelwood in touch at the end of the first quarter.

 

Hazelwood’s defence grew meaner in the second quarter, restricting Terenure to four points.   Ciara Meaney, Aoife Leahy and Maire Flanagan were impressive in defence forcing a lot of turnover ball while Emma Purcell tirelessly crashed the boards.   Unfortunately for the Dromcollogher outfit, the deft touches normally so typical of their offensive play were missing.   The half finished with the sides tied on fourteen points.

 

The third quarter brought more of the same.   Terenure couldn’t break down the Hazelwood defence while Hazelwood struggled to put the ball in the net at the other end.   Suzanne Sheehy substituted for Miriam Noonan who took a well earned rest.   An excellent basket from Aoife Leahy, who played her best game all session, saw Hazelwood finish the quarter trailing Terenure by four points.

 

Hazelwood applied an aggressive full court press at the beginning of the fourth quarter.   Terenure struggled to come to terms with the new defensive tactic and lost possession easily.   Three fast baskets by an on-fire Ciara Meaney put Hazelwood into the driving seat.   Hazelwood continued to pepper the Terenure net as the fans grew louder.   Baskets from Maire Flanagan, Aoife Leahy and Emma Purcell put Hazelwood fourteen points to the good.   Jennifer Roche, introduced to strengthen the defence, was brought on with Maria Korpesiova and Niamh Greaney.   Maria finished the Dromcollogher scoring when she rebounded a fast breakaway layup from Niamh Greaney.

 

The supporters vociferously counted down to the buzzer before invading the court.    With moist eyes and brimming smiles the players lined up for the presentation of bronze medals to the students from Terenure.   This was followed by the presentation of the MVP award to Emma Purcell.  Next stop Tallaght.