U18 Boys lose an opponent

News has just come through today that the Killinkere U18 Boys have withdrawn from the league. Apparently they had difficulty in getting a commitment from enough players to fulfill League requirements. It's a shame to lose out on two games but, "c'est la vie."

Injury hits two squads.

Our U16 and U18 squads have been hit with an injury to key player, Chris Taylor.

Chris was unlucky to be injured during an U16 match v Oldcastle earlier this week.

While not too serious it will still require him to rest up for the next few weeks and probably puts him out until after Christmas. He'll go mad !

We'll have to keep him busy at the table in the meantime. Hurry on back Chris.

New Players Always Welcome

We are almost always willing to accept new players to the Rockets.

Just this week we are delighted to greet Eoghan Quinn and James Reynolds who join us at U12 level. At U16 level we welcome Aaron Flanagan and are delighted to see Luke Crawley back with us too at this grade. Meanwhile David O'Shea adds much needed height to our U18 crew. Hope you all enjoy your basketball with the Rockets lads - but where were you all for the past few weeks?

U14's have a budding reporter in their ranks !

ROCKETS REPORT
U14 BOYS
On the 7th November the boys U14 headed to Streete for the first match of their season with their new coach Gerry McDonnell. It was a tight game throughout, but Streete pulled away towards the end of the last quarter. In a desperate attempted for a basket with 10 seconds to go Aaron Kealy took a shot in his own net!! Thankfully he missed.

The score finished at
19 – 16 to Streete.

ROCKETS REPORT
U14 BOYS

On the Monday night of the 9th November the boys under 14 travelled to Oldcastle. The score in the match was quite tight and after 4 quarters of basketball the teams were level. 3 minutes of overtime was played and Dunshaughlin came out victorious with a score of 24 – 23. With the players returning home past 11 o’clock, I’m sure there was a lot of tired people in school the next morning - but it was worth it !

All submitted League Results up to Nov. 6th.

Date Time League Home For vrs Away Against
Sat 17/10/09 11:45 U-16 Girls Dunshaughlin 27 v Drogheda Ladies 30

Sun 18/10/09 13:30 U-14 Girls Dundalk Ravens 18 v Longford Falcons 31
Sun 18/10/09 11:00 U-16 Boys Dundalk Ravens 40 v Longford Falcons 71
Sun 18/10/09 12:15 U-16 Girls Dundalk Ravens 15 v Longford Falcons 90
Sun 18/10/09 14:45 U-18 Boys Dundalk Ravens 66 v Longford Falcons 38

Mon 19/10/09 19:00 U-14 Boys Oldcastle 37 v Longford Falcons 14

Sun 25/10/09 15:00 U-16 Boys Drogheda Bullets 25 v Dundalk Ravens 37
Sun 25/10/09 16:15 U-16 Girls Drogheda Ladies 14 v Dundalk Ravens 34

Wed 28/10/09 19:00 U-16 Boys Longford Falcons 73 v Streete 33
Wed 28/10/09 20:00 U-16 Girls Longford Falcons 39 v Streete 21

Fri 30/10/09 19:00 U-14 Boys Cavan Lakers 14 v Longford Falcons 22
Fri 30/10/09 18:00 U-14 Girls Cavan Lakers 16 v Longford Falcons 38

Sat 31/10/09 11:00 U-12 Girls Kilsaran 25 v Dunshaughlin Rockets 23
Sat 31/10/09 12:00 U-14 Girls Kilsaran 49 v Dunshaughlin Rockets 23

Sun 01/11/09 16:00 U-16 Boys Drogheda Bullets 33 v Oldcastle 34
Sun 01/11/09 12:00 U-16 Boys Streete 34 v Dundalk Ravens 38
Sun 01/11/09 13:00 U-16 Girls Streete 37 v Dundalk Ravens 27
Sun 01/11/09 14:00 U-18 Boys Streete 19 v Dundalk Ravens 65
Sun 01/11/09 15:00 U-18 Girls Streete 23 v Dundalk Ravens 40

Mon 02/11/09 19:00 U-16 Boys Oldcastle 46 v Longford Falcons 70

Wed 04/11/09 19:15 U-16 Girls Trim 47 v Drogheda Ladies 14

Fixtures Notice

Our U16 Girls were first out of the blocks this season and you can read about their narrow defeat to Longford elsewhere on this site.

No Halloween spooks for our U12 & U14 Girls who travel to take on Kilsaran next Saturday,Oct 31st. Let's just hope they get home before it gets too dark !

The 7th. November is a big day for all our

Boys teams as they travel to take on Streete in Co. Longford. On that same Saturday our

U16 Girls are at home to Navan.

Our U18 Girls make their season debut the following day Nov. 8th, when they travel with our U14 Girls to play Killinkere in Co. Cavan.

We hope to carry match reports on all these games on our website so check back often.

If you fancy writing a report for your games then please let your team coach or team coordinator know. Who knows where it might lead?

A full list of fixtures wiil be posted soon. Good luck to all our teams.

Go Rockets!!!

U16 Girls Get the Season Going

The Rockets 09/10 season got off to a start last Saturday 17th October with a home game between our U16 Girls and Drogheda. With the electronic scoreboard working and manned by Kevin Fitzmaurice and Kelly O'Dwyer taking responsibility for the scorepad the club was ready for the game.
The team included Niamh Bedford, Siobhan Scurry, Orlagh Thompson, Aoife Sheehan, Dervla Kavanagh, Erica Coombes and Roisin Bruce (who also plays for the U14’s ). Louise Griffin, unfortunately couldn't make it.
Orlagh Thompson started the scoring for Rockets and after the 1st quarter they trailed Drogheda by only 3 points. The 2nd quarter was a great quarter to watch with some marvellous scores coming from fast breaks and lovely taken lay-ups. At the end of the quarter both teams had scored 5 baskets each. Tiring somewhat the team just scored twice in the third quarter but in the forth they outscored Drogheda. However, they never recovered from the 3 point lead in the 1st quarter and the match finished Rockets 27, Drogheda 30. The girls should be very proud of their performance and this writer feels that they have a great season ahead of them.
The girls are home to Navan next on Nov.7th. It should be a good one !