Senior Men: The men earned their first Midlands basketball league triumph on Wednesday last with a close five-point victory over Midlands TSU coming out on top by 65-60.
The weekend LonLeitRos League match against Castlerea was postponed.
Senior Ladies: The Ladies were up against local rivals Drumlish Dragons in Saint Mel’s on Friday evening and won a closely fought contest by 34 points to 28 in this LonLeitRos encounter.
The teams were level at the end of the first-quarter, half-time and three-quarter time before Phoenix closed out the contest in the final-quarter.
Underage results
Under 16 boys: Our u16 green team suffered a narrow five-point defeat in the Midlands League away to Kildare in Maynooth losing by 38 points to 33.
Phoenix looked like securing the win late in the final-quarter. However, a couple of costly turnovers allowed the home side to tie the game and force overtime. Unfortunately, Kildare proved too strong in overtime to run out winners.
Team: Sean O’Boyle (6 points), Christian McGerr (17 points), Tadgh Reilly (1 point), Daniel Ivanov (2 points), Aidan Harris, Ruadhan McCormack, Evan Lyons, Aidan Nolan (3 points), Darragh Ledwith (4 points).
The Green team completed a very busy weekend with two successive games at home to the two Ballinamore teams in the LonLeitRos league on the same day. They beat Ballinamore Blue 66-46. Then scored a 70-22 win over Ballinamore Black.
Also, in the LonLeitRos League, our U16 Grey team ran out 14 point winners away to Ballinamore on Sunday. Team: Ben Dawson Stanley (19 points), Andris Gile (8 points), Alex Maguire Obasi, Eoin O’Connor (4 points), Tristan Dawson Stanley (11 points).
Under 16 girls: Our U16 team won both their encounters. They beat Clonaslee in the Midlands League by 43 points to 24.
Under 14 girls: Our Wings team have got off to a great start winning all three of their LonLeitRos League matches to date.
They beat Ballinamore away by 35 points to 10. That was followed up with two home wins over Carrick Cougars Red 30-20 and they edged out Carrick Cougars White 17-14.
Our Flames team had no joy in their only scheduled game to date against Carrick Cougars Red.
Under 12 Girls: Our flames team have won both their LonLeitRos league matches to date but our wings side have lost their first game of the campaign.
