A massive weekend of Juvenile All-Ireland SF's nationwide has now seen all Juvenile All-Ireland Finalists confirmed ahead of another huge day on Sunday 19th March to culminate the 2017 Finals Festival Weekend in Kingscourt.
There were a number of eye catching results and cracking contests. Leah Doyle (Kildare) prevailed in an 11-7 tiebreak win over Niamh Heffernan (Galway) to set up a GU16 Singles final with Mairead Fox (Tyrone), who defeated Amber Nolan (Clare) in two games. Tyrone will also be represented in the BU16 Singles Final after Lorcan McBride was very impressive in seeing of Mark Rodgers (Clare) in a dominant display. McBride now faces Josh Kavanagh (Wexford), after the St Joseph's club man defeated Jason O'Toole (Galway) yesterday in Laois.
Billy Drennan (Kilkenny) & Tiarnan O'Rourke (Monaghan) saw off the respective challenges of Niall Fleming (Mayo) & Sean Quirke (Kerry) to set up a BU14 Singles decider, whilst the GU14 decider will be between Clodagh Munroe (Tyrone) & Hazel Finn (Mayo).
See below for the full list of results from 30 games yesterday.
Leinster v Connacht
- GU14 Singles Mayo (Hazel Finn) dft Kilkenny (Amy Brennan) 15-4, 3-15, 15-7
- GU14 Doubles Galway (Aifric Ni Ghibne/Sadhbh Ni Fhlaithearta) dft Kilkenny (Aine Duggan/Sontae Jackson) 15-6, 15-5
- GU15 Singles Kildare (Abby Tarrant (Kildare) dft Roscommon (Shauna Clogher) 15-0, 15-3
- GU15 Doubles Laois (Emer Fitzpatrick/Lucy O’Connor) dft Galway (Eadaoin Nic Dhonncha/Skylan Ni Mhaille) 15-2, 15-14
- GU16 Singles Kildare (Leah Doyle) dft Galway (Niamh Heffernan) 21-20, 13-21, 11-7
- GU17 Singles Laois (Molly O’Connor) dft Mayo (Caitriona Heneghan) 21-4, 21-5
- GU17 Doubles Wexford (Cliodhna O’Connell/Eva Crean) dft Galway (Orla Whyte/Sinead Healy) 21-2, 21-2
- BU14 Singles Kilkenny (Billy Drennan) dft Mayo (Niall Fleming) 15-14, 15-1
- BU14 Doubles Wexford (Conor Murphy/Mark Doyle) dft Roscommon (Philip Halliday/Eanna Moran) 15-2, 15-7
- BU15 Singles Kilkenny (Jack Doyle) dft Leitrim (Cormac Scollan) 15-5, 15-3
- BU16 Singles Wexford (Josh Kavanagh) dft Galway (Jason O’Tuathail) 21-12, 21-4
- BU16 Doubles Kilkenny (Kyle Dunne/Billy O'Neill) W/O Roscommon (Dylan Hanley/Magomed Yakhyaev) inj.
- BU17 Singles Galway (Shane Kyne) dft Kildare (Cillian Hogan) 21-20, 21-15
- BU17 Doubles Wexford (Ciaran Power/Colm Parnell) dft Galway (Daragh Jordan/Shane Lawless) 21-6, 21-7
Ulster v Munster
- GU14 Singles Tyrone (Clodagh Munroe) dft Clare (Chloe Philpott) 15-10, 15-7
- GU14 Doubles Tipperary (Aine Spain/Anna Mulcahy) dft Monaghan (Eithne Boyle/Sarah Lavery) 15-1, 15-1
- GU15 Singles Armagh (Cailiosa Ni Dhuill) dft Cork (Samantha O Donnell) 15-1, 15-0
- GU15 Doubles Tipperary (Siobhan Prentice/Isabel Farnan) dft Down (Eilish Murphy/Cara McKervey) 15-7, 15-4
- GU16 Singles Tyrone (Mairead Fox) dft Clare (Amber Nolan) 21-5, 21-9
- GU16 Doubles Tyrone (Caitlin Conway/Elizabeth McGarvey) dft Clare (Orla O Brien/Shauna Doyle) 21-13, 21-4
- GU17 Singles Cork (Aoife Hurley) dft Tyrone (Michaela McCartan) 21-20, 19-21, 11-6
- GU17 Doubles Tyrone (Claire Conway/Meabh McCrystall) dft Limerick (Ciara Mc Carthy/Keri Murphy) 21-20, 10-21, 11-6
- BU14 Singles Monaghan (Tiarnan O’Rourke) dft Kerry (Sean Quirke) 15-10, 15-14
- BU14 Doubles Tyrone (Jonathan Owens/Jack Darcy) dft Clare (Tiarnan Slattery/Patrick Crotty) 13-15, 15-13, 15-10
- BU15 Singles Clare (Seanie Doyle) dft Monaghan (Devidas Kaklauskas) 15-4, 15-3
- BU15 Doubles Clare (Sean Coughlan/Cormac Murphy) dft Cavan (Darryl McGurren/Niall McMahon) 15-5, 15-8
- BU16 Singles Tyrone (Lorcan McBride) dft Clare (Mark Rodgers) 21-5, 21-2
- BU16 Doubles Monaghan (Justas Dambinskas/Konrad Kowal) dft Clare (Conor Downes/Fionn Slattery) 13-21, 21-17, 11-5
- BU17 Singles Kerry (Dara Keane) dft Tyrone (Caolan McCartan) 21-1, 21-13
- BU17 Doubles Cork (Niall Delaney/Stephen O Rourke) dft Cavan (Adam Cosbie/Conrad Martin) 21-11, 21-15