Seniors: After an epic 80 minutes we couldn’t be separated with Ballybay in round 3B of the senior championship on Saturday evening last in Clontibret, finishing with a scoreline of 2-15 to 1-18. Ballybay opened the scoring in the 4th minute to go a point ahead but took a further 8 minutes later to register their second point. In the interim, we scored 1-4, including a 10th minute converted penalty goal from Daniel McKenna in which the Ballybay goalkeeper was fortunate to avoid a black card. Ballybay reduced the margin to a goal by the 20th minute before we added 2 points in the remaining period to finish half time GaeilTriucha 1-6 Ballybay 0-4. Ballybayclosed this gap to 2 points by the 34th minute with 3 successive points before Niall Coyle touched in our second goal in the 35th minute. By the 43rd minute we werethe 2 goals in front, 2-8 to 0-8 after a fine Chrissy McKenna point. It was at this stage that the opposition raised their performance, scoring 4 points in the next 7 minutes before a 54th minute goal put them in front for only the second time in the match. We responded with an equaliser a minute later from Chrissy McKenna. Ballybay retook the lead in the 57th minute. A resilient Truaghside yet again responded with 2 points, both from Daniel McKenna, to swing the lead in our favour deep into injury time. However, with the last play of the game, Ballybay registered a point to level, 2-11 to 1-14, bringing the game into extra time. The extra time period proved to be as compelling as the original 60 minutes. Prior to receiving the game’s only black card, Chrissy McKenna opened the scoring in this period. Daniel McKenna’s point sandwiching Ballybay’s two points to leave the extra time half time score, GaeilTriucha 2-13 Ballybay 1-16. The second half of extra time also saw 4 points shared between the sides, which included a last minute 47m free from Paudie McKenna to force the fixture to a replay. Ending in a 2-15 to 1-18 draw, both clubs will be looking forward to the replay if the standard is to be replicated. Our team and scorers were: Ian Treanor; John McCarron, Niall Feely, Darren Todd; Aidan Coyle, RoryTreanor, Paudie McKenna (0-3, 1f);Pauric Treanor, Barry Cuddy; Niall Rooney, Niall Coyle, Chrissy McKenna 0-4; Chrissy McAnanley, Daniel McKenna (1-7, 1p-4f), Mark Counihan. Subs Used: Shane Treanor for Aidan Coyle (40mins), Daniel Finnegan for Mark Counihan (42mins), Niall McMeel for Barry Cuddy (53mins). Aidan Coyle for Shane Treanor (Start of ET).Mark Counihan for Chrissy McKenna (69mins-blackcard), Sean McKenna for Daniel Finnegan (70mins), John Treanor for Niall Rooney (74mins), Niall McQuillan for Rory Treanor (76mins), Adam Treanor for Chrissy McAnanley (78mins). The replay of the semi-final is scheduled for next Sunday at 2.30pm in Clones.

All Ireland Football Tickets: Any club member who wishes to attend the All Ireland Football Final must have their ballot request in to KPJ-0876918445 before Friday 12th September at 9pm.

Reserves C: We await the RFL Div. 3 Final against Blackhill which is now provisionally fixed for the October.

U-16: We lost to Monaghan Harps, 1-8 to 1-14, in the semi-final of the Division 1 league last Thursday evening. Our championship final against Monaghan Harps has been provisionally fixed for Saturday 27th September at 2.30pm in Clontibret.

U-14: We were beaten by Monaghan Harps last Tuesday, 3-16 to 6-8 in the division 1 shield semi-final last week. Hard luck to the lads on the narrow loss. Thanks to the management and players for their efforts this year.

U-10: Training each Thursday evening between 7-8pm.

U-6 & 8s: Training each Thursday evening between 7-8pm. All welcome.

Lotto Jackpot now €9,400: There was no winner of last week jackpot prize of €9,300. The numbers drawn last week were: 3, 10, 17, 25. There were 7 match 3 winners each receiving €20: Marian Meehan, Eileen Morgan, Roisin Coyle, Laura McQuillan, Laura Treanor-Drumfurrer, Ronan Watterson & Donal O’Neill-Clara. Sellers Prize: Rossmore Bar & Hurling Club. Next week’s jackpot is €9,400. Check Team: Josie’s. The lotto draw will take place at 10.30pm each Sunday night. All tickets must be submitted before 10.15 to ensure entry.

Cairde: Thanks to all Cairde members who continue to renew their subscriptions. Anyone who wishes to become a Cairde member or renew their membership can contact Niall on 0860604386.Support your club, share the rewards.

Hurling: Seniors- We await our league final fixture against Castleblayney to be fixed.

U-14: We conceded away to Inniskeen last Wednesday evening. We were due to play away to Castleblayney last Monday evening. Our next game is away to Cootehill on Saturday 20th September at 12pm.

Minor: We play in the minor championship quarter final at home this Sunday at 12pm.

Ladies:

U-10/U-12: Training as per coaches. Anyone who still has their sponsorship cards to hand in please do so asap to management or any committee member.

U-14/U-16: After last week’s result against Killeevan, our U-16 girls team have now qualified for the semi final of the league where they will be due to play at home to Carrickmacross. A date and time for this fixture has yet to be confirmed. Training for this group of girls will continue as decided by team management.

Anyone who still has their sponsorship cards to hand in please do so asap to management or any committee member.

TRUAGH LADIES LEG IT !!!: As a fundraiser our girls & co is running the Derry half marathon on Sunday 14th September. Our local businesses who sponsored our runners will be advertised on the tshirts as they run! Good luck to our runners on the day and thanks to our local businesses for their sponsorship.

Peadar & Louise McGeough memorial blitz: In memory of the late Peadar and Louise McGeough we hold our first 7 a side blitz in St Mellans on Saturday 20th September 2014. We remember Louise who passed away in October 2010 and Peadar our ladies no 1 supporter who drove us to all our matches and experienced both bad & good days with us.

We welcome everyone to attend the club house after were music will be provided on the night.

Liathroid Laimhe.

See County notes for Details.

40 Years Celebrations. St.Mellans Handball Club will be celebrating a major milestone in 2014 as we ring in the clubs 40th year in existence, the committee are currently hard at work organising a gala night to celebrate the occasion, we will be publishing a booklet for the event and hope to have a launch night for it in the not too distance future, if anyone inside or even outside the club have any old photo’s or memorabilia from the past 40 years we would very grateful for all the help.

Back in Action. Unfortunately as the nights become longer and as the summer comes to a close the attention begins to switch from the green grass to the indoors of the alley, as that time of year again approaches we are encouraging all players to get back into the swing of things before all events kick off, we would ask parents to try and get juveniles back down as we hope to get juvenile events up and running earlier this year to run alongside the re-opening of the schools, so keep an eye out for notes of all on-goings but be down practicing in the meantime.

AGM. The club will be holding the AGM next month and we would like to ask people of the area to consider coming on board this term to help out, as the club grows steadily bigger each year the amount of organising events leagues etc also increases, so as the old saying goes “many hands make light work”.