Y.M.C.A. C.C. (Dublin)

Calling all those with green fingers, Cricket Ireland are running an IOG Intermediate Spring/Summer Groundsmens course this month.

Presenter: Len Smith (Former Glamorgan CCC groundsman)
Dublin: Sun 28th March - venue (Clontarf TBC)
Cost: €65 per person
Time: 9am - 4.30pm (lunch provided)

Contact Sue Wickham in Cricket Ireland for all details and bookings - sue.wickham@irishcricket.org or phone 8947914

Forty young enthusiastic cricketers attended the first ever Leinster U11 girls training, at a two-day training clinic held over the recent school mid-term break.
Coaches Barbara McDonald, Carole McGuire, Sean McCann & Keara Pyne put the children through a variety of skill development activities with vast improvements being made over the two days.
Further coaching sessions for this age-group have been pencilled in for Friday April 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th.

The YMCA girls who attended were:
Robyn Lewis, Gaby Lewis, Ellen Ridgeway, Zara Bailey, Jessica Meates, Kate Orr, Alex Orr, Suzy Hoey, Jessica Smith and Caroline Smith.

YMer Adam Rice continues on his quest for London 2012 as he makes his mark in Irish Athletics as a Javelin thrower.

Representing Trinity College Dublin, Greystones & District A.C. & Sli Cualann, Adam had a very successful season. Highlights in 2009 included becoming Gold Medalist as he represented Trinity in the IUAA Outdoors T&F Meet held at the University of Limerick in April last year.
His winning throw was 53.60m as he regained the title he also won in 2008 (51.00m).

He followed this up with a 4th place finish at the Woodies DIY Senior Track & Field Championship of Ireland in August 2009 as a member of the Greystones & District A.C. Recording a throw of 56.66. The winning throw was 59.84.

He topped this by winning the Mens League Division 1 Meet at Tullamore also that August throwing 57.19. This was also the 4th longest throw of the year in Ireland.

With more competitions both in Ireland and overseas this promises to be a busy summer for Adam.
Watch this space....

'Irish Cricket Suppliers' are giving you the chance to WIN a Free LEKKA Custom Made Cricket Bat in their 2010 Competition.

Simply paste and click onto the link below, fill out the entry form and enter the competition...

Good Luck!

http://www.irishcricketsupplies.com/contact/

The Leinster Cricket Union have announced the U15 Squad for training and coaching currently taking place.
YMCA are well represented in the 39 players chosen with 9 players if you include Benn Hoey who had re-joined from CYM.

Congratulations to the following players for making the grade;
Aaron Bailey, Lee Cole, Callum Donnelly, Padraic Flanagan, James Smith, Michael Kirk, Luke Madeley, Andrew Mowatt and Benn Hoey.

Click onto for more;
http://www.irishprovincialcricket.com/scripts/csArticles/articles/000002/000226.shtml

It was recently announced that our Head of Youth Cricket Aideen Rice has been elected as the 1st Chairperson of the newly formed Leinster Cricket Union Youth Committee, which will run all aspects of youth cricket in the province.

Congratulations Aideen and all the best in your new position...

Thanks to Aideen Rice the fixtures for all the YM Youth teams are now available in the 'Fixtures' tab.

The 2010 season will see an increase in the number of teams we field.
There are now 2 extra boys teams, the U11Cs & for the first time in years an U19 team and 1 girls team bringing the total number of teams to 11.
There will now be 2 girls teams at U11 and U13 level.

Teams:
Boys U11A, U11B, U11C, U13A, U13B, U15A, U15B, U17, U19
Girls U11, U13

There are approximately 87 league, cup and friendly games to be played, highlights include a trip to Oakhill C.C. to play Ampleforth for the U13A team and an U17 game against South African tourists St.Sithians.

A busy season ahead...

As we enter a crucial part of the season a quick update sees that 'Los Galacticos' managed by Carl Hosford and 'Rovers Town United' led by Barry Streek continue to top the table separated by only 1 point.
Neel Bhandari's 'Bundyz Boyz' have crept up to take the number 3 spot, closely followed by 'CS Deportivo Harte' inspired by Jonathan Harte and 'Choppers Selection' marshalled by Rob Nandi.
Rob Whyte continues to prop up the table with his 'Canberra Celtic'.

1st Los Galacticos - Carl Hosford 1483
2nd Rovers Town United - Barry Streek 1482
3rd Bundyz Boyz - Neel Bhandari 1390
4th CS Deportivo Harte - Jonathan Harte 1371
5th Choppers Selection - Rob Nandi 1361

For full league table go to;
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/table.mc?id=223090

The Leinster U11 & U13 training squads were announced recently with the following YMCA players selected;

U11 Training Squad:

HARRY KIRK, HARRY TECTOR, JAKE FINLAY, ANDREW BLAIR-WHITE and ADAM McCOY-SMITH

U13 Training Squad:

JACK TECTOR, GEOFF COLE

Congratulations to all the players.

For more go to;
http://irishprovincialcricket.com/LEINSTER/index.shtml

The groups for the Alan Murray Twenty20 Cup were drawn and it put YM in group 2 along with derby-rivals Pembroke, Phoenix and Rush.

Fixtures;
15th June (Tues) v Phoenix CC - The Phoenix Park
24th June (Thurs) v Pembroke CC - Claremont Road
6th July (Tues) v Rush CC - Kenure Park

For the full draw go to;
http://www.irishprovincialcricket.com/scripts/csArticles/articles/000002/000223.shtml