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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Doubles double still on the cards
BY BRIAN O’SULLIVAN
IN the all-Ballymac Munster 60 x 30 ladies senior doubles final played in Ballymac on Saturday, All-Ireland 40 x 20 doubles champions Maria Daly and Ashley Prendiville defeated club-mates Caitriona and Áine Casey to go one step closer to the All-Ireland doubles double for 2010.
The winners got off to a great start, going 10-1 and 11-3 up before the Casey sisters fought back to go within two aces, 9-11.
But Daly and Prendiville’s greater experience had a telling effect as they went on to close the first game out 21-9.
Caitriona and Áine Casey regrouped for the second set and were level at 3-3 and 5-5 before Daly and Prendiville pulled away again and went on to take the Munster title 21-9, 21-7.
They now go into the All-Ireland semi-final in mid-August where they face the Casey sisters again or Roscommon’s Leona Doolin/ Deirdre Donohue.
In the Munster diamond masters B doubles final, played after the ladies game, Tralee Fitzgerald/ Jones club-mates Declan Ryan and Carl Burkett went down to Cork’s Tim Joe Healy and Jim O’Rourke, losing 21-3, 21-16.
Meanwhile, Glenbeigh’s Dominick Lynch is in action on Tuesday night in the semi-final of the Munster 60 x 30 senior singles championship in Hospital, Co Limerick, where he faces Tipperary’s Paul Mullins.
The winner of the game will go forward to play Ger Coonan (Tipperary) on Saturday, again in Hospital. Having won the Munster 40 x 20 singles, Lynch will be hoping to add the big alley singles title to his honours this year.
Also, club-mates and doubles partners, Maria Daly and Ashley Prendiville will be in opposite corners this Saturday when they go into battle against each other in the delayed Munster 60 x 30 senior singles decider in Hospital at 2pm.
Daly, the present 40x20 champion, will have aspirations of gaining her first 60 x 30 singles title, but will face a tough test from Prendiville who was defeated in the All-Ireland final last year when she was bidding for three-in-a-row.
It promises to be epic struggle between the two who last met in the 2007 All-Ireland final when Prendiville won in the third game.
Meanwhile, the Ballymac under-13 handball team of Keelan Brosnan, Dara Keane, and sisters Michaela and Danielle O’Donoghue won the Munster 60 x 30 team of four club plate final in Broadford, Co Limerick, on Friday on a scoreline of 60-48.
This is a wonderful achievement for this bunch of players as all are still underage again next year and two others having three more years in this age group.
The Munster juvenile championships start this week Kerry are away Tipperary in round one with Clare awaiting the winners in the semi-final.
In the first round of games in the county 60 x 30 singles championship, Eoin Keane (Ballymac) defeated fellow club-mate Danny Riordan, 21-14, 7-21, 21-16, on Tuesday night.
Then on Saturday, Brian O’Sullivan (Glenbeigh) beat Paul Culloty (Ballymac), also after three games, 20-21, 21-18, 21-12.
This week’s second round games see Brian O’Sullivan take on Danny Riordan at 8pm on Friday night while at the same time Saturday night, Jack O’Shea (Glenbeigh) plays Paul Culloty. Both games take place in Ballymac.
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