New Ross Badminton Club

Senior Club Team Tournament  

2002/03

2003/04

2004/05

2005/06

2005/06 Finals

.The club intermediate team final resulted in a win for Adrian Delaney’s Jaguars team over the Wayne Redmond led Puma’s.  At one stage the Puma’s held a 4-3 advantage, but the Jaguars took control of the final series of games to run out 10-6 winners.  Jaguar’s:  Adrian Delaney, Ella Bigos,  Anne Breen, Liz Murphy, Bernie Cashin, Helen Moore and Kevin Burke.  Puma’s:  Andrew Wayland, Wayne Redmond, Aoife Bennett, Eoghan Cashin, Joseph Meggs, Declan Burke, Susan Cullinane.

2004/05 Finals

The Tigers mauled the Panthers in a highly entertaining final of the New Ross Badminton club senior team competition as they recorded an 13-8 victory in winning the first club competition of the season.  The Tigers raced into a 4-2 lead after the opening games with Martin Regan and Colm Byrne defeating Pat Lynch and Ralph Stone 12/13, 13/2, 13/8.  Billy Bennett and Rosemary Burke followed this up with a 9/13, 13/11, 13/12 victory over Brideen Lynch and Neil Barrett.  Celine Hayes and Pat Furlong recorded the Panthers first win when they defeated Karen Hennessy and Adrian Delaney 9/13, 13/11. 13/10, but the Tigers regained their advantage immediately when Andrew Wayland and Wayne Redmond overcame Laura Lynch and John Nolan 13/12, 13/9.  In the 2nd series of games Colm Byrne and Billy Bennett stretched the tigers lead even further when they had an easier than expected success 13/4, 13/9 over Pat Lynch and Neil Barrett.  Brideen Lynch and Ralph Stone looked sharp for the Panthers in their doubles when overcoming Rosemary Burke and Martin Regan 13/6, 13/6.  The final two games went the way of the Tigers with Karen Hennessy and Andrew Wayland defeating Pat Furlong and Laura Lynch 13/2, 6/13, 13/10 and Adrian Delaney and Wayne Redmond defeating Celine Hayes and John Nolan 13/5, 11/13, 13/12.

2003/04 Finals

The senior final pitted Martin Regan’s Falcons team against the Eagles team captained by Ralph Stone.  This was a rip roaring contest between two very evenly matched teams as the final score of 9-8 to the Eagles testifies.  The Eagles team: Ralph Stone, Anne Walsh, Chris McMackin, Adrian Delaney, Shane Moran, Andrew Wayland and Pat Furlong .  The unlucky Falcon’s team was: Celine Hayes, Brian Cullen, Laura Lynch, Martin Regan, Neil Barret, Brideen Lynch and Billy Bennett.

2002/03 Finals

The Lynch Mob are the club senior team champions for 2002/03 after a trilling 8-7 final victory over Regan’s Rovers.  The heroes on the night were again the old war horse Pat Furlong and his youthful partner Laura Lynch who repeated their semi-final feat of turning around a three sets deficit into a one set victory.  This was an exciting match from the very opening game when the Rovers took a 2 sets to one lead with Billy Bennett and Wayne Redmond defeating Brideen Lynch and Shane Moran by two sets to one.  Rovers increased their lead further when Martin Regan and Adrian Delaney also won by two sets to one against Pat Lynch and Pat Furlong and it was not looking good for the Mob when Shane Moran and Laura Lynch lost by the same margin to Wayne Redmond and Clodagh McDonald.  In a very exciting 4th game Pat and Brideen Lynch drew one all with Martin Regan and Billy Bennett which left the score 7-4 in favour of the Rover’s with just the one match remaining.  It appeared to be asking a lot of the Mob’s final partnership of Pat Furlong and Laura Lynch to repeat their semi-final performance and to again snatch the match from the jaws of defeat.  From early on in the match however it was clear that the wily old campaigner was very much on song and the Rover’s partnership of Adrian Delaney and Clodagh McDonald were under severe pressure and finding it difficult to cope with the fierce attacking game of their opponents.  The Mob’s rearguard partnership took the first two sets comfortably and it was now a case of if they would have enough time to secure the additional two points required for success.  It was a close run thing because the Rover’s partnership began to up the tempo and drag out the rallies, but there was to be no stopping the Mob and they just managed to squeeze in the final elusive two points before the whistle blew to call time and end a memorable game and a very enjoyable competition for all.

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