Cormac Gilsenan & Johnny Reilly through to Club Juvenile final

Gilsenan and Reilly reach final

The semi-finals of the Crossakiel Juvenile championship was played in Moylagh last evening. Cormac Gilsenan caused another shock in these championships when defeating a fancied Gary Reilly in 2 games by 15-7, 15-14. Reilly it has to be said was recovering from an illness last week and this had a major bearing on the match as his normally high energy levels dropped. He was well in control of game 2 and was serving to bring the match to a tie breaker. However Gilsenan’s great battling display come to the fore and he came back strongly from being 7-14 behind and amazingly took the match by the minimum 15-14 in the end.

In the 2nd semi-final there was a drama between Johnny Reilly & Conor Rice. Reilly took the 1st game by 15-9. Game 2 was very evenly contested but somehow from somewhere Rice dug deep and even with the lights going out he still managed to hold his nerve to win an exciting game 2 just edging it by the minimum 15-14. In the tie breaker Reilly rallied again and just had that little bit extra to win a thrilling tie breaker by 11-7


The club will run a presentation evening for all our juvenile handballers, in Moylagh, starting at 7 p.m. This will involve training as usual, mini-games, a presentation and then the chance to watch the juvenile club final of 2011. The final between Johnny Reilly & Cormac Gilsenan is scheduled for an 8 p.m. start.