Successive wins push The Bridge on brink of quarter-finals
*Lorcan Fitzpatrick gets away from Tadhg Dean and Ross Hayes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SUCCESSIVE VICTORIES HAVE MOVED SIXMILEBRIDGE to top spot in Group 4 of the TUS Clare SHC.
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Scariff ‘set for huge battle’ with Broadford
*Liam Crotty. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SCARIFF are hopeful their first round win can propel them into successive victories and a place in the knockout stages of the TUS Clare SHC.
Ballyea back on track after five star showing from Jack
*Jack Browne excelled for Ballyea. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill JACK BROWNE led the way as four-time Clare SHC champions Ballyea put their championship campaign back on track.
Doora/Barefield determined to take a leap when they meet Newmarket-on-Fergus
*Cian Barron of St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ST JOSEPH’s Doora/Barefield remain an ambitious young team and they’re eager to bounce back in the second round of the TUS Clare SHC.
Newmarket-on-Fergus need to get it right in round two
*Shane Lynch gets a strike away as Cian Dillon closes in. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill NEWMARKET-ON-Fergus must learn from their disappointing first round showing in order to keep their championship hopes alive.
Moving round ups the ante in hurling championships
IT’S the moving round in the TUS Clare senior and intermediate hurling championships.
Crusheen approach The Bridge with ‘a little bit of nervousness’
*Crusheen’s Conor O’Donnell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DESPITE picking up a first round win in the TUS Clare SHC, Crusheen still head into the second round with “a little bit of nervousness,” manager Michael Browne remarked.
Bridge braced for test from ‘championship team Crusheen’
*Sixmilebridge’s Páidí Fitzpatrick. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SIXMILEBRIDGE are gearing themselves up for a real championship test against Crusheen when both sides bid to record successive victories.
First round Broadford win ‘as good as any victory with The Bridge – Meehan
*Paddy Meehan (far right). Photograph: Burren Eye Photography BROADFORD winning their first round in the Clare SHC, an East Clare derby matched any of the victories Paddy Meehan enjoyed with his native Sixmilebridge.
Éire Óg ‘heroic in defence’ as Townies tee up tilt to get out of Group of Death
*David McNamara is fouled by Ryan Taylor and Trevor Lee. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill BACK FOR a second stint as manager of the Éire Óg senior hurlers, Gerry O’Connor was very pleased as his side began their championship bid with a one point win over Clooney/Quin.