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Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Connacht Junior/Senior Open & Butterfly Junior National Championships

Butterfly Junior National Championships took place 5th/6th March in the NBA, Tallaght.

This was last National tournament of the 2015-2016 season. Mia had a great double win in both the Cadet and Junior events. Art came 3rd in the Cadet boys and 2nd in the U13 event after a 5 set thriller. Dillon reached the U13 semi-final but lost to Thomas Joyce taking 3rd place.

Well done to Sadbh, Anna, Bence, Ciaran, Alex, Adam, Kevin, Tim, Joe & Paul who also took part. For some members it was their first National event. More details on the event can be found here.

Photographs from the event

The Connacht Open took place in Breaffy, Mayo in February.

Mia had a great tournament winning the Cadet girls and the Senior women's singles! She also won the mixed doubles senior event with Conor Mullally.

This was Tim's first National tournament and it was a great experience. Art took 4th place in Cadet boys and Sadbh won the Hopes event. More details about the tournament can be found here.

Friday, 22 January 2016

Munster Junior & Senior Open, Neptune Stadium, January 15th-17th 2016

Griffeen Valley Table Tennis Club had a fantastic weekend at the Munster Junior Open in Cork City.

Friday 15th January:

Mia and Art took part in the Women's & Men's singles event. Mia made to the quarter finals. Art nearly made it to the final 16 but was knocked out by Ballincollig's Alan Walsh.

Mia entered the Women's Doubles with Leeside's Zofia Wawrzyniak and won the competition! Dillon & Art entered the Men's Doubles and made it to the quarter finals.

Saturday 16th January:

The U15 & U11 events took place on Saturday and Griffeen Valley took three out of the four golds!

Mia & Art did the double by taking 1st place in the girls and boys U15 events while Sadbh took 1st place in the girls U11.

Mia & Art U15 winners

Sadbh with U11 girls

Sunday 17th January:

The U18 & U13 events on Sunday brought more prizes for the club.

Mia beat Chloe O'Halloran 3-0 in the girls final to take 1st place in the U18 event. Art came 2nd in the U13 boys after a tight final against Thomas Joyce. Dillon took third place after a tight semi-final against Art. Sadbh came 5th in the U13 girls event.

Dillon 3rd U13

There was more to come with another great win for Mia in the U21 girls event.

There are more photos from the tournament at Munster Table Tennis and further reports available at ITTA.

Well done Griffeen Valley players - you did us proud!

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Douglas Huston Ulster Open, November 2015

Mia, Art, Dillon & Sadbh made their way to Lisburn for the Douglas Huston Ulster Open. The event attracted top class junior and senior players from Ireland as well as abroad.

FRIDAY

Art & Mia played the Men's and Women's singles on Friday evening with Mia qualifying through to the final stages on Saturday. She beat the Ireland number 1 to qualify for the semi-finals against the Welsh no. 1 who knocked Mia out and went on to win the trophy.

SATURDAY

Mia, Art & Dillon played in the U15 events on Saturday while Sadbh took part in the U11 event.

Mia got through to the final beating Natasya Barry of Connaught to take the U15 gold.

In the boys event Dillon was knocked out of the quarter finals by Alan Pattison and Art played an exciting semi-final match against the Swedish player Jonathan McDonald. It was a close match which went to the fifth set. Art was knocked out but beat Alan Pattison for the bronze trophy.

Sadbh won all her matches to win the U11 girls event.

Art & Dillon paired up for the Men's Doubles event. They went through to the consolation event after losing to Dylan Grace and Alan Walsh of Ballincollig but were knocked out in the final.

Mia played the Women's Doubles event with Zofia Wawryzniak to win the consolation final.

SUNDAY

On Sunday, Mia played in the U18 girls and Art, Dillon & Sadbh took part in the U13 event.

There were some great games throughout the day and Mia came through her matches with a second gold after meeting Nya Nyugen in the final.

Sadbh played some great matches and took 2nd place in the Band 1 final of the U13 girls.

Dillon & Art made it through to the semi-finals of the U13 boys to meet their old rivals David Taylor and Thomas Joyce from Connaught. Art beat David for a place in the final but it wasn't to be for Dillon who eventually took 3rd place position. Art and Thomas played a thrilling final which went to the fifth set with Art winning 11-9 to take the gold.

Well done to all - you made the club proud!

Read more about the Ulster Open results here

Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Griffeen Valley players star in first National event 2015/2016

Irish Junior Classification, NBA Tallaght - September 19th/20th 2015

Day 1

Under 13 boys

Dillon Byrne and Art McLaughlin competed in the U13 event on Saturday. Both went through to the semi-finals - Dillon had to play Thomas Joyce of Mayo Academy and Art met Matthew Cherry (Glenburn). It was not to be for Dillon with Thomas going through. Art had a 3-0 victory over Matthew to meet Thomas in the final.

The match was hard fought and went to a tight fifth set with eventually Art losing 11-8 to take the silver trophy. Dillon came 3rd to take the bronze after a victory against Matthew.

Art & Dillon with 2nd / 3rd place trophies U13

Day 2

U15 boys & girls

The two boys went into battle again in the U15 event (Cadet boys). They were joined in this event by club mate Ravi Seth. Ravi had to play Dillon and Paddy Vaughan (Mountrath) in the first group. Dillon and Art got through their 1st round but had to meet in the 2nd grouping along with Thomas Joyce and Ethan Duffy. It was a tough group and only two could go through to the quarter finals. Art and Dillon had to play each other to decide and Art qualified.

Next he had to play Paddy Vaughan of Mountrath. Art won the match 3-1 and met Conor Nugent (Glenburn) in the semi-final. This match was a great display of junior table tennis which went to the 5th set. Conor was victorious and went on to win the Cadet boys. Art beat Alan Pattison of Dundrum to take 3rd place.

Mia O'Rahilly Egan played in the Cadet girls event. She qualified from her first group and went on to beat Nicole Scott (Glenburn), Pravesha Ragi (Hilton Grove) and Lucy Craig (Glenburn) to qualify top from round 2. She faced Zofia Wawrzyniak (Leeside) in the final. Mia took the gold after a 3-1 victory!

Art - 3rd - Cadet Boys

Mia - 1st - Cadet Girls

U11 - Hopes Event

Paul Lynch played in his first Hopes event and enjoyed the day with plenty of matches. Sadbh McLaughlin and Aine Carles entered the girls Hopes and had lots of fun. Sadbh won all her matches to come first - well done Sadbh.