Bawn handball,  The club would like to offer their deepest sympathy to Rosemary Mc Geough and the Mc Geough / Mc Phillips families on the death of Rosemary’s father Frank Mc Phillips, may he rest in peace.

Juvenile training has begun every Sat evening at 6, beginners always welcome.  Hard luck to our team who lost narrowly to Harps in the semi-final of the Ulster club championship in Tydavent last Saturday.  The team was ,Michael Clerkin, Michael Duffy Jr, Eugene Mc Geough, John Mc Geough and Gary Mc Elroy.

Mono Team League. The fixtures committee have the Mono League drawn up, the league is serving of on the 5thof November with 12 teams taking part, due to the amount of games to be played games are fixed for Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturday evenings, so be very careful of your times and dates, we ask all captains to make an extra effort to have all games played on the night as the amount of league games and juvenile leagues being played the alleys this will be a very busy this season, all fixtures will be out this weekend, don’t forget the league is returning to the old 4 man team format so all players on each team will be playing each night of fixture, also remember you are also playing for yourselves in the “Promotion / Relegation League”, so beware.

Club Membership.  Club membership Fees to be paid go to Declan, contact him on 0877720018, playing Adults 30 Euros, Students 15 Euros, Juveniles 5 euros and non playing members 10 Euros.

Juvenile Club Leagues. We are sending last years leagues to all the coaches to get the players down and get them back in action, then will have to see what evenings suit both players and coaches so leagues can begin, but we hope players are already out and practicing in their own time, booking charts are at both alleys so stick your name down and get practicing.

Handball Beginners U8-U10. Beginners of U8 – U10’s still on going on Friday evenings from 7:45-8:30pm, all new members are welcome both boys and girls, 5 euros membership for the year, this time slot might change when the adult team league kick off.

HARPS HANDBALL

HARPS REACH ULSTER CLUB FINAL

Bawn and Monaghan were involved in a marvellous Junior Club Semi final on Saturday last in Scotstown.  With total scores deciding the winner from 6 games of 21 points, the difference in the end was a mere 4 points, 112 -108. The performances ranged from outstanding to downright gritty.  Pride of place goes to the outstanding comeback by Eugene Mc Geough in his match against Terry Mc Elvaney to trail by only 4 points overall. The scores here were 21-18, 21-20.

Conor Mc Donnell and Ramunas Ramanauskas increased the Harps lead with close wins over Michael Duffy and Gary Mc Elroy. A feature of this match was the awesome power of Ramunas. Watch out Dessie Keegan!

Bawn fully deserved to win the final match when Michael Clerkin took both games in a gritty encounter with Martin Mc Entee.  The scores here were 21-16, 21-12. Michael’s use of the spin serve and his superior kill shots made all the difference.  However, despite trailing  15-5 in the second game, Martin somehow scraped the aces needed to send the Harps  into the Ulster final.  Both clubs are to be congratulated on a very  determined and sporting display throughout.   A major task awaits the Monaghan club in the final against either Saint Paul’s, Belfast or Brackey, Tyrone.