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2006 U16 D1 Hurling Winners

Victorious Annaghdown U16 Hurling Panel & Mentors after the county final in September

Back Row (L to R) Niall Canavan (Coach) Tom Lohan (Selector) Derek Higgins,TJ Forde, Ronan Killilea, Paul Lynch, Christopher Greaney, Conor Conway, Brian Creaven, Ronan Melia, Martin 'Flyer' Hession (Manager), Michael Geoghegan (Selector).
Front Row (L to R) Dara Melia, Ciaran Donoughue, Cathal Creaven, Barry Murphy, Andrew Dennigan, Andrew Goulding, Jonathan Comer (Captain), Enda Mullarkey, Gary Cunningham, Jonathan Creaven, Gordan Browne, Eoghan Pierce, Peter Hession.

In the group stages our U-16 hurling team had good wins over Mountbellew, Sylane and Clarenbridge to qualify them straight into the semi final of the championship. Some intensive training along with tough challenge games against Bearna/Na Forbacha and Roscommon side Four Roads had the team in fine form for the semi-final against South Galway side Kinvara. In an excellent game of hurling Annaghdown ran out winners on a scoreline of 3-15 to 1-9.

On Saturday September 16th we faced Kilconierin in the County Final, which was played in ideal condition, is Kenny Park, Athenry. In what was an exciting game of hurling and we lead from start to finish and ran out worthy winners on a by 0-9 to 1-4. Scoreline having led at half time 0-7 to 0-3. Having watched our forwards exploits in the semi-final where we racked up five goals, Kilconieron fouled us at every opportunity buy Peter Hession was deadly accurate from frees scoring eight from nine attempts while Conor Conway added the other point. We had many stars on the day with Andrew Golding outstanding in goal, in defence Derek Higgins and Ronan Melia were solid in the full back line while Brian Creaven marshalled the half line superbly while Christopher Greaney and team captain Jonathan Comer also contributing greatly. At mid- field Dara Melia and Jonathan Creaven got through an amount of work, while up front Peter Hession shot eight points while Conor Conway scored the other point. Enda Mullarkey received the 'Man of the match Award' with Barry Murphy and Ciaran Donoghue worked hard all through while subs Paul Lynch and Ronan Killilea also did well when introduced.

The winning panel was Andrew Goulding, Derek Higgins, Ronan Melia, Christopher Greaney, Brian Creaven, Jonathan Comer, Dara Melia, Jonathan Creaven, Barry Murphy, Conor Conway, peter Hession, Ciaran Donoghue, Enda Mullarkey, Paul Lynch, Ronan Killilea, T J Forde, Gary Cunninghan, Gordon Browne, Andrew Dennigan, Eoghan Pierce, Cathal Creaven, Hubert Creaven, Jonathan Farragher, Ciaran Duggan. The management were Martin Hession, Niall Canavan, Tom Lohan Michael Geoghegan and Benny Creaven