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VALLEY’S
BRENDA MCGINTY TAKES 2ND PLACE IN ALL IRELAND
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Valley’s juveniles have been to the fore this season and after
the first round of the juvenile championships were ranked 2nd club
nationally. Valley’s juveniles returned home with a total of
39 championship medal, 4 individual placing, 1 team title and two
third team placing.
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Girls Under
12
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Girls was lead by Niamh Doherty taking her team home to
third place. Niamh was well supported by Catherine Gallagher,
Jodie Stewart, Clara Dunnion, Aoife Whelan, and Fionnuala
Lindsay whose older brother competed in the Novice race.
Ulster team won bronze medals with Niamh and Jodie making
the scoring Ulster team and along with Catherine Gallagher
and Clara Dunnion also scored on the Donegal team which
won silver medals. |
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Boys Under 12
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once again by the Convoy lad Pauric McLaughlin who finished
7th overall and brought his team home to bronze medals
as well as winning himself an individual medal. Gavin
Carlin son of Sean who is training for track and field
championships was Valley’s second scorer with Lorcan
McMenamin , and new kid on the block Dermott Brennan of
Fintown, Gerry Boyle of Loughanure and Philip Brown making
up the scoring Valley team. Pauric, Gavin, Dermott and
Lorcan were all scorers on the Donegal team which took
gold medals. Also competing very well was Patrick Geary,
Karl Bradley, Christopher O Leary and Christopher McBride. |
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Girls Under
14
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| Breda
McGinty of Dooish was the star of the show for Valley
in these championships competing in the girls under 14.
Breda, now a student at St Columba’s College Stranorlar,
was discovered through the primary schools sports while
competing with Dooish NS has progressed steadily . Brenda
has taken all individual titles in Donegal and Ulster
Even and Unevenaged groups and one of her outstanding
races this year was in the Ulster championships when she
battled with Ailish McColgan (daughter of Liz and Peter
McColgan) to take the Ulster title. However today’s
race was Breda’s best performance ever, finishing
2nd overall and just 5 seconds behind the winner. Valley’s
team finished 5th overall and just eight points off winning
medals. Breda was well supported by team mates Maeve Culhane,
Jackie Gibson, Shauna Guthrie, Fionnuala Bruton and Bronagh
Doherty. This is a team has good prospects and can go
on to dominate cross-country later. |
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Boys Under 14
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U14 Boys had another remarkable performance. These
lads have won all team titles in their age group down
the years and are a pleasure to watch and today’s
performance was no exception with Finn Valley taking
club title, Donegal county title and Ulster the province.
Diarmuid Fullerton of Buncrana lead the Valley team
home to victory in 5th spot also winning himself an
individual medal, with Ian Ward whose brother Simon
was second on the historic Finn Valley Novice team made
it a family celebration finishing 6th , Ryan McDaid
of Buncrana 22nd , Shane Bonner of Drumkeen 49th and
the ever improving son of Mark Connolly Aidan making
up the final scorer. Diarmuid, Ian and Ryan all scored
on the winning Ulster team and along with Shane Bonner
also scored on the Donegal winning team. Also Kevin
Gallagher had a good run in this age group.
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Boys Under
16
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U16 boys competed well and Alan Cavanagh was Valley’s
lead scorer with Stephan Connolly, Mark McGowan, Maurice
Boyle and Enda Doherty all performing well. |
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Special Thanks
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| Finn Valley wish
to thank all coaches, parents and supporters who travelled
. A great days competition by all and now the attention
turns to Indoor championships. |
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Many congratulations to all at Finn Valley
AC...and long may your sucess continue!
8th December 2002
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