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Irvinestown downed by strengthened
Dergview
Football: Dergview Res. 3
Irvinestown Wdns. 2 – Irvinestown
Wanderers have been relegated to
Division 2 of the Fermanagh and
Western football league following a
3-2 defeat at the hands of Dergview
Reserves on Saturday last at
Derrychara. The relegation play off
was necessitated following
Dergview’s last gasp winner against
NFC Kesh last week. For Dergview it
is quite a turn around given that they
were relegated by the Fermanagh
and Western following the
abandonment of their final league
game of last season.
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Chambers joins McKenna in NI U17
squad
Football: 16 year old Matthew
Chambers from Trory received good
news last week when he was called
up to the Northern Ireland U17 squad
which will play their Scottish
counterparts in two friendlies over
three days in preparation for the
forthcoming European U17
championships.
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Two goal O'Brien puts champs to the
sword
Football: Ballinamallard Utd. 4
Moyola Park 1 – Ballinamallard
United bounced back from their 2-0
defeat to Lurgan Celtic on Tuesday
last with a fine 4-1 victory over last
year's division 2 champions, Moyola
Park, at Ferney Park on Saturday
afternoon last. It was indeed, a
welcome victory with the Ferney Park
lads coming back strongly after
conceding an early goal to earn a
decisive, confidence restoring victory
which puts them in the top half of the
table at this early stage of the
season.
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Sean plays to the max to win by two
Golf: The Killyhevlin Open was
played over Enniskillen Golf course
at Castlecoole on Bank Holiday
Monday and the beautiful weather
attracted many golfers from the local
area and from further afield.
Enniskillen Golf Club is rapidly
becoming a Mecca for visiting golfers
who find the course to be one of the
premier inland tracks to be found.
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Maguires find the right Tempo
GAA: Intermediate Championship
Final - Tempo 2-08 Kinawley 2-06 –
Tempo had to suffer a nervy finish to
this game after a blistering opening
period was witness to them to open
up a ten point lead at one stage only
for Kinawley to claw their way back
into contention at the finish, closing
the gap to two points.
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Late Curran points edge final
GAA: Fermanagh Senior Hurling
Championship Final - Lisbellaw 0-12
Lisnaskea Emmetts 0-10 – Anyone
who thinks hurling in Fermanagh
lacks a competitve edge should have
been in Brewster Park, Enniskillen
on Sunday evening last. There, two
sides, Lisbellaw and Lisnaskea
Emmets, produced a highly
competitive game that was in the
melting pot up until the final few
minutes before multiple winners,
Lisbellaw secured the win by virtue of
a couple of points from the
impressive Dermot Curran, with the
final scoreline reading 0-12 to 0-10
in their favour.
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Gold in veterans race for Boylan
Cycling: Kenny Boylan had a
convincing win in the Ulster veterans
Road Race Championships which
were held at Nutts Corner Co. Antrim
on Sunday. The 51 mile race which
is always hotly contested by the best
riders in Ulster region has never
been won by a Lakeland rider before.
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Local crews to the fore against
Europe’s best
Sailing: All of Lough Erne Yacht
Club’s six boat J/24 fleet, with 26
local sailors, and 4 others including
a Canadian helmswoman in
Jeriatrix, competed last week in the
Alfa Romeo European J/24
Championship on Dublin Bay and
hosted by the Royal Irish Yacht Club.
Over 250 sailors in 51 boats from six
European countries, were there, from
Lough Erne, the most westerly, to
Greece, the most easterly, and from
Italy, Germany, Ireland, and Britain.
The overall winner and European
J/24 Champion for 2002 came for
Holland, Albert Kooijmann in Just 4
Fun.
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Brian’s five star display strikes gold
Transplant Games – Lisnaskea's
Brian Armstrong was again to the
fore at the transplant games which
were held at Loughborough
University over four days last
weekend. Brian was competing in
five events, all on the one day, and
came away with a startling five golds.
This was Brian's second visit to the
British Transplant Games after
winning three golds in 2001.
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League points but no cup joy
North Fermanagh’s hopes of lifting
the Samuel Jeffrey Memorial Cup for
the first time were dashed again at
Eglinton on Saturday in a
high-scoring final against Ardmore.
Cricket: To the side’s great credit,
however, nearly the same eleven
players bounced back the following
day to claim a very creditable league
victory by 5 wickets over old rivals
Coleraine.
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Jennings hoping to get back on top
Rallying: The 2002 Stena Line Ulster
Rally welcomes the UK’s premier
one make Rally Series, the Peugeot
206 Super Cup, with the Irish
contingent very much in control.
Donegal based Shaun Gallagher
leads Fermanagh’s Garry Jennings
from Fermanagh by just 14 points
after five of the eight Peugeot 206
Super Cup qualifying rounds.
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