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HAZELWOOD COLLEGE WIN FIRST ROUND OF MUNSTER SENIOR HURLING

Hazelwood College 1-21
Blarney 1-18

Last week Hazelwood College began their Munster hurling campaign against Blarney in Mallow, playing with a strong breeze. Damien Lacey put Hazelwood three points to the good in the first seven minutes. James O Regan added to this lead making it four points to no score. Blarney however replied with two points of their own before Damien Lacey scored a fine free another a point from play making it six points to two. Seamus Flanegan and Darragh Kiely made it eight points to two after twelve minutes in high scoring opening. Blarney then hit back with two unanswered points before the inform Damien Lacey scored another point. In the next ten minutes both sides exchanged points leaving the half time score – Hazelwood 13 points Blarney 10 points only 3 points ahead playing into a stiff second half breeze.

The first ten minutes of the second half was end to end with Damian Lacey scoring three more points for his side and Blarney also scoring three points. The game then sprung to life with a Damian Lacey penalty rattling the Blarney net. Blarney refused to give up and responded three minutes later with a goal of high class. With ten minutes to play, the score was 1-19 to 1-15 in favour of Hazelwood. Blarney struck twice with two points but Sean Fehin and Eddie Prunty scored a point each to seal the win for Hazelwood College. Blarney put pressure on with a late point to leave only 3 between the teams but it was not enough to salvage a result, leaving Hazelwood victorious. Hazelwood Play Carrignavar in Mallow, at 1 PM on Wednesday Oct 17th in the 2nd round.

Team Billy Donegan, Cillian Cagney, Sean Flagagan, Declan Stack, James O Regan 0-1, Eric O Connor, Daire Hannigan, Eddie Prunty (0-1), Jamie Butler (0-1), Peter Mulcahy, Seamus Flanagan (0-2), Sean O Sullivan (0-1), Darragh Kiely( 0-1), Damien Lacey (1-11 0-8 frees), John walsh.
Subs
Sean Fehin (0-2), Shane O Callaghan, Steven Ahern, Paddy Burke, Padraig Roche, James Kelly, Luke Broderick, Lee Daly, Paddy Lordan, Cillian Fahy,

Dramatic Munster Senior Hurling Encounter

Defiant Hazelwood lose out in extra time in dramatic Munster Senior Hurling encounter.

Hazelwood College 1-17
Carrignavar 3-12

On the 17th of October 2012 Hazelwood College narrowly lost out to Carrignavar in the second round of the Munster Colleges. Carrignavar started at a blistering pace, with two goals in the first seven minutes. Despite this, Hazelwood fought back with 4 points of their own, three from the stick of Damien Lacey and one from Darragh Kiely. Following Hazelwood’s sustained response, both sides exchanged points with Damien Lacey scoring from placed balls, leaving the score at half time 2-5 to 7 in favour of Carrignavar.

Hazelwood surged forward at the start of the second half, with scores from Damien Lacey, Sean Fehin and Sean Flanagan. In the fourth minute of the second half Hazelwood scored a goal through John Walsh. From here Hazelwood managed to push into a clear lead, thanks to the team’s sterling second half performance. Though Hazelwood’s heroic efforts cost the team valuable energy, the team looked set to achieve a remarkable victory. Unfortunately with two minutes left on the clock, Carrignaver grabbed a goal leaving them a point down and in stoppage time Carrignavar then snatched another point from a free. This meant that the game headed into extra time.

The first half of extra time turned into a low scoring tight affair, ending with the score even yet again thanks to John Walsh’s fine point for Hazelwood, which answered Carrignavar. Despite Hazelwood’s tired legs, the team rallied for the the second period, which was end to end action. Carrignavar scored an early point before Damien Lacey replied. Unluckily for Hazelwood, Carrignavar seized their chance and scored the decisive point to clinch the victory in the dying moments of the game.

Team and Scorers:
Billy Donegan, Cillian Cagney, Daire Hannigan, Declan Stack, Patrick Burke, Sean Flanagan (0-1), James O’Regan, Peter Mulcahy, Jamie Butler, Eddie Prunty, Shane O’Callagahan (0-1) Sean Fehin (0-1) John Walsh (1-1), Damien Lacey (0-12 0-9 Frees), Darragh Kiely (0-1)

Subs: Paddy Lordan Lee Daly, Steven Ahern, James Kelly, Padraig Roche and Cillian Fahy

Hazelwood Athletics Hot Shots

On what turned out to be a gorgeous sunny day in CIT, four Hazelwood College athletes (Kevin O Leary, Laoise Bennis, Mairead Lordon and Maria Cremin) competed in the Munster Schools Combined Events Competition. Among the very stiff competition, the Hazelwood College athletes competed fantastically. Combined Events Competition involves the athletes competing in five disciplines over one day, being allocated points on how the preform in each event. Hazelwood College’s athletic team gave great individual performances over the course of the day, but were unlucky, in narrowly missing out on medals.

All four athletes had fantastic races in their hurdles races, finishing no lower than third in each race. This high Hazelwood standard was maintained when Mairead, Kevin and Laoise all achieved personal bests in the long jump. Laoise raised the standard further when she went on to win her high jump, with a personal best equalling jump of 1.45m, narrowly missing out on 1.50m. Kevin also had an impressive high jump, smashing his personal best to jump 1.35m to finish second. Maria struggled with her mark in her strongest event, the long jump, but still managed 3.76m. She also equalled her personal best in the high jump and ran a new personal best in her 800m. Mairead was very pleased with her solid run in the hurdles and saved her best performance for the last event of the day the 800m getting a new personal best of 2min 47sec, showing great promise for the cross country season.

All in all it was a fantastic day with lots of personal bests, but more importantly it shows great promise for the future.

Picture 1: Hazelwood College tag rugby teams that participated in a tag rugby blitz, which was run by Rugby Munster Branch.

Picture 2: Another of the tag rugby teams from Hazelwood College who participated in tag rugby blitz which was run in the grounds of Shannon RFC. Also pictured with them was Fiach, who is a Development Officer with Munster Rugby and acted as one of the referees on the day.

Picture 2: The third Hazelwood College tag rugby team who participated in the Munster Rugby branch organised tag rugby blitz, where they faced opposition from SMI Newcastle West and Abbeyfeale. Also pictured is one of Munster Rugby’s Development Officers, who acted as a referee for the tag rugby blitz.

Picture 3: Hazelwood College students mixing with students from SMI Newcastle West and Abbeyfeale who all participated in teh tag rugby blitz run by the Munster Rugby Branch at Shannon RFC.

Hazelwood Triumph over Rathkeale in Senior County Limerick VEC Colleges’ Final

On May 15th, Hazelwood College Senior Camogie team faced the stiff challenge provided by Rathkeale. The team, led by Aideen O’Flynn, started strongly, helped by a brace of goals by Becky Ryan and a combined six points by Katie Dillane and Aideen O’Flynn. By the end of the first half Hazelwood were 2-7 to 1-1, a score line that does not reflect the challenge posed by Rathkeale.

Rathkeale, helped by the breeze in the second half launched a stern defence and fight back, but could not overcome the strong defence marshalled by Tara Fitzgibbon and Grainne Sheehy. Thanks to the experienced heads on the team, further points were added to keep a safe distance between the teams. Further points by Becky Ryan, Katie Coughlan, Donna Mulcahy, combined with a leading performance by Aideen O’Flynn ensured that at the end Hazelwood were on the right side of a 3-12 to 2-3 score line.

Hazelwood College Team

1. Rebecca Duggan
2. Caroline Watson
3. Grainne Sheehy
4. Orla Cunningham
5. Loretta Hanley
6. Tara Fitzgibbon
7. Sarah Shanahan
8. Aideen O’Flynn
9. Katie O’Sullivan
10. Cliona O’Callaghan
11. Donna Mulcahy
12. Kallie Hodgeson
13. Katie Coughlan
14. Becky Ryan
15. Katie Dillane
16. Aine Fitzgibbon
17. Sarah Nolan
18. Grainne Fitzgibbon
19. Marie Dannaher
20. Brianna O’Connor
21. Chloe O’Brien
22. Aine Cunningham
23. Emer Cunningham

Hazelwood Scorers
Becky Ryan 2-2
Katie O’Sullivan 1-0
Katie Coughlan 2 points
Katie Dillane 3 points
Aideen O’Flynn 4 points
Donna Mulcahy 1 point.

Hazelwood College Limerick County A Champions

Hazelwood College: 3.3
Laurel Hill: 0.8

On Monday May 12th, a determined Hazelwood College side set out to win their first ever County A Colleges Junior Final Vs Laurel Hill. Our girls were prepared to play against a very strong team and knew they had a tough fight on their hands. It was a bitterly cold day. As the match went on the girls played through blustery conditions and rainfall. By half time, with a strong breeze at our backs, Hazelwood College was up 2.3 to 5 points with scores from Donna Mulcahy, Cliona O Callaghan and Grainne Fitzgibbon.
Laurel Hill put great pressure on our girls in the second half but could never get the upper hand on our great defensive side and with some outstanding saves by our goalie Rebecca Duggan they didn’t get too many chances of taking advantage of the strong breeze. Our girls were busy defending in the second half with our only score of the half coming from Katie Coughlan in the closing moments of the game. Each of the Hazelwood team dug deep and, despite the serious pressure exerted by Laurel Hill, they came away with the victory winning by 3.3 to 0.8. It was a great victory and well done to all the Hazelwood College Girls.

Hazelwood Team

1. Rebecca Duggan
2. Aine Fitzgibbon
3. Tara Fitzgibbon
4. Chloe O Brien
5. Sarah Shanahan
6. Grainne Sheehy
7. Brianna O Connor
8. Cliona O Callaghan
9. Donna Mulcahy
10. Niamh McCarthy
11. Marie Danagher
12. Emer Cunningham
13. Aine Cunningham
14. Grainne Fitzgibbon
15. Katie Coughlan
16. Elanna Mulcahy
17. Laura Stack
18. Gemma Barrett
19. Sarah Nolan
20. Leanne Nolan
21. Rachel McNamara
22. Leighann Shanahan
23. Emily Mulcahy
24. Niamh O Brien
25. Megan Fitzgibbon
26. Chloe Ryan
27. Emma O Callaghan
28. Triona O Callaghan

Donna Mulcahy: 2Goals
Katie Coughlan: 1 goal
Cliona O Callaghan: 2 points
Grainne fitzgibbon: 1 point

Co. Limerick V.E.C. Ladies Football

“13th Title for Hazelwood College”

HAZELWOOD COLLEGE 4-10
COLAISTE NE TROCAIRE 4-4

Our senior girls played Colaiste Na Trocaire; Rathkeale in Neville Park last week
and after a hard battle finished six points clear. Hazelwood won the toss and
elected to play with the breeze (at times gale force). Which proved to be a
good decision by Captain Máire Flanagan. At half time we were 14pts to the
good and needed to be because Rathkeale came storming back in the 2nd half-
fighting all the way to the end.

Rathkeale had the ball in the back of the net before Hazelwood had even
settled but within five minutes we had things under control and with Máire
Flanagan playing exceptional football at centre back we slowly added on
the scores. Norma Kiely kicked our first score – a point from a free and was
followed by a wonderful goal from Claire Enright. Points from Donna Mulcahy,
Norma Kiely and Aisling O’ Connor followed and then midway through the
first half Aisling O’ Connor goaled after some great play by Máire Flanagan
and Katie Dillane out the field. Rathkeale hit back with another goal but points
from Katie Dillane, Donna Mulcahy (2), Nicola O’ Connell and Claire Enright
kept Hazelwood comfortably ahead. With 7 minutes to half time Claire Enright
struck again hitting the back of the net – not once – but twice in the space for
three minutes – half time score Hazelwood 4-9 Rathkeale 2-1

Against the breeze in the second half was much tougher for Hazelwood but
some majestic handling from our captain cleared many a danger. Rathkeale
scored two goals in quick succession followed by two points to come within six
points of Hazelwood but two substitutes for Hazelwood – Niamh McCarthy for
Stephanie Kirwan and Katie O’ Sullivan for Nicola O’ Connell slowed the game
down. This suited the Drom girls, Niamh and Katie began to dominate midfield,
holding onto the ball and also making some great runs – one of which set up
Donna Mulcahy’s point five minutes from the end. Rathkeale scored one more
point but could not penetrate the Hazelwood defence further and it ended 4-
10 to 4-4.

Best for Hazelwood: M. Flanagan, A. O’Flynn, L. Curtin, N. Kiely, N. McCarthy,
C. Enright, K. O’Sullivan.

Scorers for Hazelwood: Claire Enright 3-1, Aisling O’Connor 1-1, Donna
Mulcahy 0-4, Norma Kiely 0-2, Katie Dillane 0-1 and Nicola O’Connell 0-1.

Subs used: Niamh McCarthy, Katie O’Sullivan and Ciara McCarthy.

Team: Zoe O’Connell, Chris O’Leary, Loretta Hanley, Sarah Forde, Rachel
Lane, Máire Flanagan (capt), Lorna Curtin, Donna Mulcahy, Aideen O’Flynn,
Stephanie Kirwan, Norma Kiely, Nicola O’Connell, Katie Dillane, Claire Enright
and Aisling O’Connor.

Other subs: Aisling McCarthy, Áine Cunningham, Colleen Leahy, Sondra Boyce,
Marie Danagher.

Hazelwood Suffer Last Gasp defeat

Hazelwood College (Dromcollogher) 0-13
Colaiste Iosaef (Kilmallock) 1-11

Kilmallock snatched an injury time victory in the Limerick B schools hurling final in a sunny Ballyagran with a goal 3 minutes into injury time to turn a two point deficit into a one point victory. Hazelwood had the better of the earlier exchanges scoring two quick points through Jamie Butler and David O’Donnell before Kilmallock responded with one of their own. Jerry Lane pointed a first of many frees to leave Hazelwood leading by 3 points to 1 after five minutes. Kilmallock enjoyed a period of dominance for the next 15 minutes scoring three unanswered points to put them leading 4 points to 3, twenty minutes in. the last 10 minutes were tit-for tat. Killmallock bettering Jerry lane’s 3 frees with four points of their own to leave the score at half time – Colaiste Iosaef 0-8, Hazelwood College 0-6. The second half started as the first finished with both sides trading points, Jerry lane with one from play as well as a placed ball matching Colaiste Iosaef’s two scores. It was now however Hazelwood’s time to dominate. Kilmallock managed only one score in the next 25 minutes of play. Hazelwood scored 5, however they were largely restricted to scores from placed balls, Jerry Lane scoring 3 frees and a 65 with Shane Carroll the only score from play, by the Colaiste Iosaef defence.So Hazelwood lead by 2 points 3 minutes into injury time when Kilmallock pounced with the winner leaving no time to get back up the field and score. It was a heart-breaking defeat leaving Hazelwood to think of a season which had been close at both Munster and County level but had resulted in no silverware.

Team and Scorers for Hazelwood College: Conor Egan, Sean Flanagan, Conor Dillon, Darren Boyce, Joseph Casey, Eric O’Connor, Philip O Flynn, Diarmuid Coleman, Jamie Butler(0-1), Jerry Lane 0-10 (0-8fs,0-1 ‘65), Daire Hannigan, , Cian Mulcahy, David O’Donnell 0-1, Shane Carroll 0-2, Diarmuid Buckley