60x30 Senior & Minor All-Ireland Finals
This coming Saturday at noon, St. Coman's will host the 60x30 Senior and Minor All-Ireland finals, both male and female.
This is traditionally a huge occasion in Irish handball. It is a big honour for the club to take on the last major All-Irelands to be held outside of Croke Park.
The new state-of-the-art Croke park handball complex will host all finals from next year.
A late added bonus for Roscommon supporters is Siobhan Treacy's Ladies Junior 'B' final v Wexford's Cliodhna O'Connell. Which has now been added to the program at 10am.
St. Coman's Carragh Kennedy will also be contesting the Ladies Minor final against Clare's Leah Minogue in the second game on the program.
The other contests are as follows; Men’s senior, Robbie McCarthy (Westmeath) v Gary McConnell (Meath). Ladies senior, Catriona Casey (Cork) v Martina McMahon (Limerick) and Cormac Finn (Sligo) v Kyle Jordan (Kilkenny) in the Boys Minor.
As one would expect all matches are expected to be very closely contested and an outstanding day's handball looks to be in store.
Tickets might still be available by contacting the Head Office in Croke Park at 01-8192385.
Sunday sees two other Roscommon stalwarts also play in All-Ireland finals. St. Coman's Glen Walshe will take on Tipperary's Paddy Delaney in Crinkle, Co. Offaly in the Masters 'B' final. While in Abbeylara, Co. Longford Lisacul's Denis Creaton faces Offaly's David Hope in the Masters 'A' final.
60x30 Ladies Senior Doubles Quarter-final
St. Coman's Fiona Tully and Carragh Kennedy went down fighting in their 60x30 Ladies Seinor Doubles quarter-final against Limerick's Martina McMahon and Aisling Shanahan.
McMahon is the reigning big alley singles champion and one of the two outstanding players in the Ladies game. An easy victory was expected against a very new untested partnership.
However, in the first game the Roscommon pair played superbly and won a very entertaining game 21-18.
In the second, McMahon upped the ante and completely took over the play, dominating the set to win in 21-2.
The tie-breaker to 11 was a very tight affair and Roscommon had their chances before going down 11-5.
