Senior Hurlers

The senior hurlers beat Corbett Gaels and are through to the next stage of the championship.

Juvenile Roundup
A great weekend for our juveniles with success on the field of play

The u16 hurlers won the county final. The u12 footballers won their mini festival finals and the u12 ladies footballers won the Wicklow shield. The u13 Camogie girls and u16 ladies footballers were both unlucky to lose their finals. Well done to all those who played for the teams during the year and thank you to the parents who supported these teams along the way.

Mum and Me Camogie
Mum and Me Camogie starts again on Monday evening (the 1st October) at 7.30pm. All newcomers are also welcome.

Academy
The Academy continues on Saturdays from 10-12 for children born in 2005, 2006 and 2007. New players are always welcome

Old hurleys and helmets
If you have any hurleys and helmets that you have outgrown or no longer use you can hand these on the recycling day for recycling within the club.

Recycling Day
The next recycling event will be held on the 6th of October. Please hold onto all clothing, bedding, shoes, phones and books (not school text books).

Lotto
Our jackpot next week is €4,200 to be in with a chance to win you can sign up to the lotto on the Bray Emmets website. There was no winner this week and the numbers drawn were 16 15 10 and 12

Minor A Championship Semi Final
Bray Emmets 1-7 Blessington 2-7

25/09/2012 in Annacurra

On a day that Bray and the east coast saw one of the worst rainfalls all year Bray Emmets minors made the long journey down to Annacurra for their Minor A Championship Semi Final vs. Blessington. Bray had qualified for the semi-finals after beating Baltinglass, St Nicholas and Eire Og to finish fourth in the group. Blessington finished second and this made for a mouth watering tie.

Bray started this game at 100 miles an hour. After only 3 minutes they were 2 points to no score up with a Daire Lohan free and a nice Luke Maloney point from play. Bray then created a great goal chance, after a slick move ended up with Marc Lennon on his own with just the keeper to beat but his effort went narrowly wide. Bray kept the pressure up and got a 3rd point from a massive distance from play from inspirational captain Daire Lohan. After 15 minutes Blessington started to come into the game a bit more and were attacking the Bray defence but our full back line of Shane Lohan, Cathal Ó Dualachain and Seanie Maloney were magnificent to hold their full forward line to no scores at this stage of the game. The score was level after 20 minutes after Bray dominating. It was point for point after this for the remainder of the first half. Blessington took the lead for the first time and then Daire Lohan got another two points, another excellent one from play and one from a free. Marc Lennon scored a fine point from a tight angle and Blessington finished the scoring in the first half with two points from the right hand side to leave it all level at half time. 1-3 to 6 points.

The second half started similar to how the first half ended. Blessington started to take control now and scored 2 points on the trot. Bray were competing well and were putting in some excellent balls into our full forward line. Blessington tacked on another point to put them 2 points up. The score after 45 minutes was Blessington 1-5 Bray 6 points. Then came the killer blow - a well worked move up the left wing found the right half forward for Blessington in space for him to coolly slot the ball into the corner of the net. If there were major doubts cast over their first goal there were no complaints for their second. Bray replied with a point from another Daire Lohan free but again Blessington responded with 2 fine points. 6 points in it with 6 minutes left. Bray battled in search of goals and eventually were awarded a penalty which was converted with ease by Daire Henderson. Just a goal was the margin with two minutes left and Bray almost got that goal with the last kick of the game but Daire Lohan's effort was well blocked by the Blessington defence. After 42 seconds of injury time was played the ref blew the final whistle to the despair of the battling Bray Emmets team. Final score was Blessington 2-7 Bray 1-7.

This was a heartbreaking result for this great minor team that worked so hard all year to get to this stage of the championship. It will take this team a while to recover from this but with 2/3's of the panel eligible for minor next year the future is bright. For those who are now finished at minor level they will hopefully taste some sort of success with our Senior or Junior teams in the club in the near future. Other massive performances on the night came from Ishe Mnensa and Matt Thompson in the half back line and Enda Molloy and Ben McCormack who both worked tirelessly on both wings up front. This was Bray's best performance of the year and if factors were different we could be now looking forward to preparing for a county final.

Team: P Doyle, S Lohan, C Ó Dualachain, S Maloney, H Armstrong, I Mnensa, M Thompson, D Lohan, D Henderson, E Molloy, D Coady, B McCormack, L Maloney, J Doyle, M Lennon


Subs: D O'Midheach for D Coady, P Conroy for H Armstrong, S Anders, R Treacy, L Morgan, L Gorman
Scorers: D Lohan (0-5) (3 frees), D Henderson (1-0) (pen), L Maloney (0-1), M Lennon (0-1)

Bray Emmets u12 v Baltinglass
Bray Emmets team and their supporters had a long journey down to Dunlavin for an early start to challenge Baltinglass for the Wicklow Shield.

Bray started well and were first on score board with a cracking goal from Eve Murphy. The two teams were very evenly matched and the game was a hard fought competition and the weather conditions did not help. Eleanor Carroll in goals made an excellent save but collided with a player forcing a substitution. By half time Bray were ahead by a score of 1 goal 2 points to 1 goal. Baltinglass started the second half with a goal to put them ahead for the first time in the match. The Bray girls dug deep with each and every one of the players raising their game to 110% and with the help of the supporters and coaches cheering them on from the side line converted their chances with two more points. In the last minute of the game Nicole Ryan (Goalie) saved Baltinglass last chance leaving Bray winning with a score line of 1 goal 4 points to 2 goals and three voiceless coaches. Well done to all the players who participated in all the games leading the team to this win.


Team: Nicole Ryan, Eleanor Carroll Hayes, Meave O'Doherty, Kerri Keane, Grace Browne, Alice Fitzgerald, Carla Lennon, Jane Butler, Molly Fitzgerald, Eimear Martin (2pnts), Eve Cunnane, Lauren Healy, Shauna Ryan, Laura Cahill, Laura Butler, Allanah Douglas, Eve Murphy (1G-2pnts), Sadhbh Kavanagh, Emily Devenney, Alison Carroll, Amy Butler, Rachel Cullen

U12 Boys Footballers

The Under 12 boys Football squad played 2 games against Blessington in a combined-results final on Saturday afternoon in Roundwood. Emmet Bhré were victorious by more than 20 points which was a very pleasing conclusion to our season.

Andrew Conway captained his team, and both himself and Mick O'Gara lead by example. Cian Lohan, Luke Concannon and Seán Byrne also had outstanding games. Bhí na tuismitheoirí an-bhródúil astu freisin. Emmet Bhré - U12. Andrew Conway (1-6)(Captaen), Cian Lohan (1-2), Ciarán McKay, Conor Hardiman, Lochlann Dougan, Luke Concannon, Macdara Ó Midheach (2-1), Michael Timmons, Mick O'Gara, Nick Hederman, Rory Lambe (2-1), Seán Byrne, Seán McDonagh (1-2).

Joe Phelan captained his team and a great effort was made by all on the team. Ben Connolly in goals made a great save and Darragh scored a great goal in second half. Jamie played well taking three points and Paddy played well after moving out midfield as did David Maloney in defence. David Nesbit came on as sub in second half scoring a goal and Tony Jackson also scored in first half. Jacob was inspired in first half and also scored

Ronan McMahon, Tony Jackson, Davy Maloney, Darragh Rochford, Paddy Redmond, Joe Phelan, Ben Connolly, Jamie Baguley, Sid Hunt, Andrew O Brien, David Nesbitt, Jacob Stanley and Ben Kearney. Tweet

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