Sports Roundup 7th December
RUGBY
“SCT & JCT in Semi-finals”
Both our Senior and Junior teams play in League semi-finals this coming Wednesday.
The Senior’s take on King’s Hospital while the Junior’s are replaying their semi-final against Gonzaga on the same day. So wishing them both much success. Congratulations go to Senior captain James Tracy who played for the U19 Ireland team who beat Australia U19s 15 nil in Cork last week. James and all of the lads played very well and were well deserving of the victory.
The Junior’s fought out a tough encounter against Gonzaga on Wednesday in difficult conditions for Junior rugby. We led 3:0 at the half but Gonzaga pegged us back early in the second half with what was to be the last score of the game, The replay is eagerly awaited…
SOCCER
Very hard luck to our U19 Boys soccer team who were knocked out of the league at the semi-final stages. Unbelievably we lead 4:0 after 20 minutes of the game and looked to be coasting to the final. This was not to be the case as we conceded 6 goals in the remainder of the game in which our fitness seemed to be severely lacking. Hard luck to all of the lads who played so well to get us this far.
EQUESTRIAN
Congratulations to the Newbridge College team who won the latest Hoof prints open league competition held in Waterford on Saturday 5th December. The team also won best turned out. The team members are Leanne O Sullivan, Ashley O'Sullivan Carolyn Harty and Alyssa O'Neill. Alyssa also came 2nd in the Individual event and Carolyn came 4th. This follows the College win in the league last weekend, when we were represented by Una Delahunt, Clare Manning, Aisling Doyle and Holly Hannigan. Newbridge College is now leading the team league and Alyssa is leading the individual league.
We also had a team competing at the Novice Show jumping inter schools event held this Sunday the 6th December in Swords. The team finished in 7th place. The team members were Sarah Kearin, Sadhbh Springate, Kate Hensey and Hayley Banahan. Sadhbh also came 2nd in the novice individual and Chlodagh Kearin came 6th.
Congratulations to the Newbridge College White Team, Aisling Doyle, Una Delahunt, Claire Manning and Holly Hannigan who won the latest round of the Hoofprints Interschools showjumping league held in Rolestown, Swords on Sunday the 29th November. They were the only team to finish the final jump off round on zero faults. Congratulations also to Alyssa O'Neill who was 2nd in the individual competition and to Claire Manning who was 6th.