This week’s matches saw three players emerge with hat-tricks. First up was Sam Millen for the Under 12 team who scored 4 times in his teams 7-1 away victory over Torro Utd.

This was then followed by Mark McCormack who capped his debut with a treble for the second team in their 6-2 victory over Albion Rovers at Tully Park.

Ross Campbell (pictured) then completed a memorable treble when he scored three times for the first team in their 6-2 defeat of Torro Utd also a Tully Park.
Well done to all three.

Celtic teams enjoyed four wins and a draw from six outings today, with the Club Seconds taking pride of place after a five star display at home to Albion Rovers in a game that finished 6-2 to the Celts. The win keeps Noel Farrell’s side top of the MDL Premier reserve Division.

Mark Scanlon’s 16’s won 5-1 away to Bailieboro and Michael Loughlin’s 15’s bettered that score away to Blackwater -they scored six times without reply.

John Marron’s 13’s drew 3-3 away to Newtown and Nick Nally’s 12’s defeated Torro Utd. 7-1 away.

The only defeat suffered was by Ron Metcalfe’s 11’s who were beaten 7-4 away by Kingscourt after trailing 0-6 at the break.

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The draws for the SFAI National Cups were made recently and Celtic have two Home and three Away ties, all to be played over the weekend of 8th/9th October:

12’s V Albion Rovers A, Home, Saturday 8th October

13’s V Malahide Utd, Away, Sunday 9th October

14’s V Kells Boys A, Away, Saturday 8th October

15’s V Kentstown Rovers, Home, Saturday 8th October

16’s V Oldcastle Utd, Away, Saturday 8th October

The long awaited start of the NECSL ‘Sevens’ season is scheduled for Saturday 8th October and this year’s event promises to be the best to date. All games will be played on Saturday mornings on the excellent ‘all-weather’ pitches at the MDL commencing at 9am and finishing about 1.30pm.

Fixtures are scheduled for every Saturday until the end of March next although there will be no games on Saturday 29th October or on Saturdays 17th/24th December or on January 7th. Note carefully.

This season the Club has entered teams as follows:
U8 Pumas (managed by Adrian Geraghty)
U8 Rascals (Alan Kirwan)
U8 Tigers (John Sweeney)
U9 Cubs (Peter Madden)
U9 Eagles (Peter Callaghan)
U9 Raptors (Gerry Harte)
U10 Supremos (Mark Farrell)

Plans are in hand for two more teams to be entered -at U8 and U10.

This year there will be increased emphasis on the friendly nature of the games which are officially classed as non-competitive coaching games. Parents, players and managers are asked to fully support the Club in its committment to this principle.

Some of the teams have also entered the MDL underage Sevens competition to be run off mid-week over the next two months.

Good luck to all of the boys taking part. Enjoy yourselves to the full. And a ‘big thank’ you to the team managers and parents.

Happy Celtic faces after the hard earned victory over local rivals Trim Town

Tully Park, Trim.

Take Summerhill road from Trim for approx one mile, pitch on the right hand side.

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Following the failure of Square United to field against the Club Seconds in the Premier Reserve Division of the MDL last Saturday week at Tully Park, the MDL have awarded the points for the game to Noel Farrell’s team.

Club teams enjoyed two wins, two draws and a defeat this Saturday in NECSL league games with pride of place going to the U13’s who won 4-2 in their tussle with local rivals Trim Town at Tully Park. The scorers were Conor Daly, Tom Stokes and Cian McGrenra who found the net twice (pictured above left to right). Well done to the boys and to manager John Marron! Ron Metcalfe’s U11’s emphatically defeated Parkvilla from Navan 3-0 also at Tully Park. On target were Malachy Joe Gavin with two and Cian Clarke.
Nick Nally’s U12’s shared the spoils away to Albion Rovers with Sam Millen hitting the net and Michael Loughlin’s 15’s also drew -at home (3-3) to Kells B. Goalscorers -Eoin Hanson, Stephen Moriarty & Nico Marocco.
The only team to taste defeat was Shay Lee’s U14’s who took the lead against visitors Parkvilla but lost out 1-2. Jamie Lee was on target.

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Bad news for Celtic fans -the First Team were defated 0-2 this morning away to Ardee, despite solid displays from a number of players including Micky Corrigan (pictured).

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