Historic wins for Gary Reilly & Sarah McDermott

Historic wins for Reilly & McDermott
For the first time in over 20 years the Crossakiel Handball Club held a Juvenile one-wall handball competition for boys & girls at Under-14 level on Sunday December 27th last.
Just 6 weeks ago the club reformed with renewed hope and vigour. There was some fantastic handball fare in evidence. Gary Reilly & Ricky Dermott both qualified for the Boys singles final with inspired wins over James Baugh & Eoghan McCabe respectively. In the final itself Gary Reilly wearing the Celtic jersey tore into Ricky McDermott in the opening exchanges. From a 5-4 lead Gary Reilly the Crossakiel Celt took complete control. And the skills on show by both players had to be seen to be believed considering these players only starting playing handball 4 weeks ago. Already Head Coach Eugene O’Reilly is doing a fantastic job in coaching the club’s young players. Gary Reilly extended his lead with pin point serving and added to some sublime aces to McDermott’s left and right side. McDermott never gave up trying but Reilly’s extra class told as he raced to an impressive 21-5 win.
There was consolation for the McDermott’s when Ricky’s sister Sarah won the girls competition winning impressively in the round robin finale. Eugene O’Reilly presented the winners & runners-up with their prizes. More competitions for the club’s younger members will take place in the next number of months.
James Baugh, Johnny Reilly, Jack Tunney, Hugh McCaffrey, Eoghan McCabe, Thomas Briody, Deborah McCabe, Aoife Tunney, Sarah McDermott, Gary Reilly & Ricky McDermott all participated in the Christmas competition.