Roscommon Closed Competition - November 27th

This years Roscommon Closed Competition will take place in our own sports complex in Boyle on Sunday 27th November. It is open to all players registered with Roscommon clubs in all divisions.

Entry forms will be available on club nights or contact me by email and I will be happy to send a form on.

While the Roscommon Badminton Association will look after running the competition we will need volunteers to help run the refreshments and shop for the day so if any members think they can help out for even an hour or two on the day please contact me by email or phone mobile
086 3737468.

Thank you

Liz

boylebadminton@gmail.com

Request from Coola

I received an email from Robert in Coola looking for a couple of extra male players to join them on their club nights, Wednesdays or Fridays.

If there is anyone in the club who might not be too far from the Riverstown area and who would be interested in an extra night of badminton please contact me and I will put you in touch with Robert.

Thanks

Liz

boylebadminton@gmail.com

Update...

We're back well over a month now and the club is going really well again this year so far. It is very encouraging to see so many new faces in and enjoying badminton. Padraic has continued some light training with anyone who wants to avail of it and it seems to be going down very well.

We started off the competition season just last night with a Division 6 game against Skreen in Sligo and although we were a couple of team members down we still managed a 3-3 draw. It was a very enjoyable and sociable match and got us off to a good start.

Club nights continue on Mondays from 9.30 til 11.30 and Thursdays from 9 til 11pm. We are always delighted to welcome new players so if there is anyone who has been thinking about taking up a sport for the Winter come in and give badminton a try in Boyle.

Back for 2011/2012

First week back and we've had two great nights. There was a lovely atmosphere on both Monday and Thursday evening with everyone keen to have a chat, catch up and what else?? ..... oh yeah play a game or two of badminton!

We were delighted to welcome some new faces and Padraic gave anyone who was interested some coaching time for a little while each night.

It gave everyone a great start and I think we're all looking forward to the season ahead.

Good to be back!

Roscommon Badminton Association AGM

The Roscommon Badminton Association held their AGM on Wednesday night last in the Abbey Hotel, Roscommon. It was very well attended by all clubs in the association. There were no alterations to the core committee who are: Donal Mee, Chairperson; Paul Lynch, Secretary & PRO; Liam Kelly, Treasurer; Tom Cox, League Secretary. The Connaught Delegates are Sean Staunton, Paul Lynch and Corrinna Delaney.

The meeting was attended by Tommy Hehir who is our Badminton Ireland representative as there is a change to the grading structure from this season forward. All players will be graded from Grade 1 to Grade 10. Grade 1 is the level of Ireland's No.1 Scott Evans and Grade 10 would be a beginners grade with everyone else falling in between. The new grading will be submitted and finalised by Badminton Ireland prior to the start of this years league competitions so hopefully by mid October.

Another issue which caused some debate at the meeting was the issue of shuttles, feather vs plastic. The outcome of this discussion was that should a team wish to play with feather shuttles in a match against a team who normally use plastic shuttles, as long as they provide the feather shuttles then the feather will take preference.

All clubs are anxious to get back and get started and the teams participating in the various league competitions are keen to see them getting underway earlier than they have in the past so it was agreed to try to implement a tighter schedule this year.

New Season to start...

Club play will recommence on Monday 12th September 2011 at 9.30pm. Club nights are Mondays from 9.30-11.30pm and Thursdays from 9-11pm.


As always we would be delighted to see some new faces giving badminton a go so we are setting aside the first hour of each night in September to help, encourage and give advice to anyone who is new to the club. It would be great if as many of our experienced members as possible were on hand to help. Coaching and training is always available to anyone who wishes to avail of it.


We look forward to seeing everyone back in the complex on Monday 12th and hope to welcome some new members too.

Div 1 Mens Doubles Invitational - Report

"..best tournament ever.. really well organised.."

"Wonderful hospitality"

"thoroughly enjoyable evening of badminton"

These were just some of the comments we received following our very sucessful competition in Boyle on Saturday 9th July.

Along with our own Boyle players, we had players who had travelled from Killeshandra, Galway, Cortoon, Sligo and Meath.

There were eight teams split in to two groups who played a round robin format in each, the top two pairings from each group then played in the Semi-Final and on to the Final.

In the first semi-final Padraic O Dowd and John Kiernan from our own club in Boyle met Liam Hyland and Ovidius from Oranmore in Galway and through a very tight match the visitors qualified for the final. In the second semi Sligo's Brian McGowan and Cortoon's Jonathan Clarke who had paired up for the competition came up against Paul Ennis and Matthew Duffy from Meath and this was another very close encounter however the lads from Meath just edged away to qualify for the Final.

So it was a Galway vs Meath Final and it proved to be a very exciting match as both sides fought hard to take the title however the Meath pair always seemed to be in control and proved worthy of their ultimate victory.

To put a competition such as this together takes a lot of hard work and committment and we are fortunate in Boyle to have a committee who is prepared to put in the effort required and we can again prove we are more than capable of hosting a top quality competition in Boyle. A note of thanks to all of the committee and also to Seamus for turning up once again with his camera.

Thank you to our sponsor Alan Simon of Ultimate Insulation.

Following the success of this tournament we hope to host more of this type of competition in Boyle in the near future so watch this space!