7-a-side Camogie Tournament Report

 

Date:           Saturday 29 March 2008

Host Club:   Tara Camogie Club,

Location:     Tir Chonaill Park, Greenford, London 

 

The format included Cup and Plate competitions at both Junior and Senior grades.

 

There were 6 teams in the Junior Competition broken down into two groups.

 

Europe won both of their Group A matches:

 

1st round, Europe v  Fort Camanach (Edinburgh).  Result:  Europe 3-0          Fort Camanach 1-2 

2nd round, Europe v Greenisle (London club):        Result:  Europe 1-1          Greenisle 1

 

and were beaten by just two points in the final against group B winners, host club Tara.

 

Final:  winners Group A v winners Group B

Europe v Tara :  Result:  Europe 2-0   Tara 2-2

 

Europe was delighted to receive very nice runner-up medals - a great boost to confidence, as everyone remembers being hammered in Mayo.   

 

The team line out was as below:

 

Goalie :                              Margaret François

Backs:          Angelika Landholt                  Shauna Mullan

Midfield:       Aine O’Regan                         Laura Whiskerd 

Forwards :   Rebecca Muëller                     Becky Mattes/Catherine Feore

 

Matches started about 11.30 am and finished about 5.30 pm.  Weather conditions were atrocious and got considerably worse as the day went on.  Needless to say the pitch was in a very sorry state and normally this tournament would have been cancelled except for all the teams travelling to it (from Ireland, Scotland and ourselves).

 

Many thanks goes to Tara Camogie Club, Greenford, London for inviting us to their tournament and for a very well organised day despite bad weather conditions.  Many thanks also to all the girls on the Europe team who travelled from Ireland, Switzerland and Brussels to take part in the tournament, to Becky for booking hotels and driving to Maastricht to collect team kit and to Laura for transporting it to and from London (it only took about a week to get the gear – we flew through Terminal 5!!)

 

 

Margaret François

Belgium GAA

Camogie Rep