Under 16 Football and Hurling
Weekend Results 9th May
Saturday 8th U14 Hurling Division 3 St Sylvesters A 3-08 v 3-07 Ballinteer St John U16 Hurling Division 1Cuala 2-12 v 1-05 St Sylvesters A U14 Fball Cup Grp A Cuala A w/o v con St Sylvesters A U16 Fball Cup Grp A St Sylvesters A 9-09 v 0-9 Fingallians Sunday 9th U15 Hurling Division 2 Naomh OP/ER 4-08 v 1-07 St Sylvesters A
Well Done Gary
Congratulations to Gary Sweeney on his great display on Saturday from all concerned in our Juvenile section. Hopefully Gary will inspire more juvenile players to work hard on their skills and follow in his footsteps. Well done Gary!! Ciaran
U16 championship at Bridgefield and Broomfield
Best of luck to our Ger O’Flynn, Pat Brenner and their Under 16 Football squads in their Championship matches this weekend, please come out on support your teams: Under 16A Bridgefield at 3.30 Under 16B Broomfield at 3.30 Also best wishes to Sean Drumm and Sean Meehan who will represent Dublin North in the Annual U12 Easter Sunday football match against Dublin South. The match is on in Fingallians on Easter Sunday.
U16 lose at Na Fianna
U16A F Div1 Na Fianna 3-07 Sylvesters 1-05 We stayed with them 'till about 10 minutes into the second half but Na Fianna had a good height advantage around the middle and it started to tell as we were shooting from far out while they were getting inside our half line and it started to grind us down.
U16s great performance in A Hurling semi final
A large crowd was attracted to Bridgefield on Saturday afternoon to see St Sylvesters U16 hurlers take on a widely heralded Lucan Sarsfields side in the A Championship Semi Final. The opening exchanges were tight, with defenses mostly on top but great points from Thomas Richardson, Conor Meaney and David Kennedy had Syls slightly ahead.
Hurling - U15s win championship - 16s fought a good fight - 13s and 14s battle hard
Pride of place goes to the U15 hurlers who beat St Vincents in the B hurling championshipfinal. Great Syls crowd in Parnell to cheer them on as there was on Saturday at Bridgefield as the U16s took on Lucan in the A championship semi final.
U16, 15 and 13 hurlers win
The U16 hurlers stepped up to Division 1 Championship after a a good recent run in Div2 league and justified the promotion with a superb win over Na Fianna at Bridgefield. The U15 qualified for the B Championship final with an impressive win over Plunket's ER. The 13s travelled to Blanchardstown and recorder a great late win over Brigids. U11 footballers had two wins over Vinnies.
Tommy Naughton coaching at Broomfield on Saturday - U15, U16 and Minor
On Saturday morning at 11am in Broomfield former Dublin Senior Hurling Manager Tommy Naughton will take a training session for the Championship panels of the Under 15 and 16 and Minor Hurlers. This is a great opportunity for the lads to learn from one of the games top coaches. It is also an opportunity for our club coaches to pick up some of the drills that are used at the top levels. Please come along and lend your support.
U16 Hurlers win at Cuala
The Under 16 hurlers took the DART to Shankill to face Cuala in the penultimate game of the League. Despite the log trip Syls came out of the traps fast racing in to a half time lead of 2-10 to 0-5 and, on the occasions when the ball could be found in the very long grass, produced some splendid passages of fast and committed hurling.
Under 15 & 16s hurling round up.
2 entertaining midweek hurling matches played in excellent conditions in Bridgefield. Our under 15s showed tremendous spirit in defeating Erins Isle by 15 points, with the goals coming from Kevin McLoughney, Sean Kane, and Killian Haverty who made his first start at this age group. Towards the end Jordan Lawless shipped a late tackle and is now out for 6 weeks with a shoulder injury.
Syls entertain Bredagh fro Co Down
U16 Hurling: Syls 4-15 Bredagh (Co. Down) 5-15 An entertaining game played in Broomfield against a well run Belfast club who were in Dublin for the 2 games in Croke Park. Since a lot of lads are unavailable due to the Junior & Leaving Certs we fielded an experimental side with a mixture of under 15s/16s and first year minors back-boning the team. For the second week in a row we had a couple of under 14s competing very well in under 16 friendly games. Well done to Jordan Lawless and Philip Browne.
Mixed results midweek 14th May
Senior Footballers won in round2 of the Dublin Senior Football Championship, Inters lost, U16 and U15 hurlers both had good wins, the U15s won over Vincents on Sunday also, U12 footballers and Minor hurlers lost by a couple of points
U16Bs unlucky to lose shield semi -final
Syls 1-8 O'Tooles 2-9 - Lads lost a few points but thought Syls were the better team and produced some flowing football but didn't convert chances to scores. A soft goal was their undoing.
Good win for U16B footballers - Shield Semi coming up
Our U16 Div 3 side have booked a place in the u16 B Shield semi final by beating the league leaders Naomh Barrog. It was an extremely tough game and we were 6 points down at half time. Mid-way through the 2nd half we were 1 point to the good but Naomh Barrog battled back to a 2 point lead.
U16 Hurlers back on winning trail
Syls Under 16 Hurlers returned to winning ways with a hard fought but well earned win away to Naomh Barrog on Saturday. Syls started brightly and David Kennedy had our opening score within in the first minute, however Barrogs came storming back managing to get in behind our full back line to crash home a well taken goal.
Results for March 29th
Three wins in adult football, a draw in minor hurling, most of the rest fall into the good effort category.
U14s again pick of the bunch
Busy afternoon in Bridgefield on Saturday with four games and Sunday morning also. Again, the U14s were the pick of our lads with a hard fought draw with Na Fianna.
U16s hurlers happy with opening win
A solid start to the year for our Under 16s, against a spirited Finbars side. Foundations for the win were laid in defence which was ably marshaled through the middle by Stephen Keogh at Full back and Gareth McGrath at numbe
Successful trip south for U15s and U16s - many thanks to Nemo Rangers
I am glad to report that our U15 and U16 football teams returned safe and well from last weekend’s trip to Nemo Rangers in Cork. The quality displayed in both matches was of a high standard and resulted in a victory for both Sylvester’s. teams.
