It’s a quieter than usual weekend on the Roscommon Sports scene but we’ll have a full round-up of all the results and reports here. This post will be updated throughout the weekend.
Last updated 11:20pm
Sunday
Ladies Gaelic Football
The Roscommon Under 14 Ladies claimed the Connacht title with a comfortable win over Leitrim. Match Report and photos here.
The County Intermediate team must play Leitrim in a play-off next Sunday to determine which team will contest the Connacht Final against Sligo. All three teams finished level in the round-robin stage and following a draw Sligo received a bye to the Final.
Soccer
Castlerea Celtic edge closer to Roscommon and District Football League Premier Division title with a 1-0 win over Ballinasloe town. Read the match report here and a full round-up of the week’s games here
Boyle Celtic defeated Ballisodare 4-1 in the Radisson Cup (Sligo-Leitrim Super League) Semi-Final, thanks to Goals from Conor Deery, Aaron Calpin, Shane Battles and Mick Corrigan.
The Athlone Town Under 16s and Under 15s, featuring a number of players from Roscommon, won Dublin and District Schoolboy League titles today. The Under 16s defeated Castleknock Celtic 3-0 and the Under 15s defeated Cherry Orchard 2-1.
Gaelic Football
Check out all of this week’s results here and our round-up of the Club Football Championship openers.
Pool
The Silver Eel, Grange, Strokestown are the 2015/16 Roscommon Pool League Champions following a tie-breaker win over An Bothar Rua, Elphin in the early hours of this morning. Both legs ended 4-3 to the visiting teams, which led to the play-off.
Saturday
Gaelic Football
Saturday
Gaelic Football
The Hodson Bay Hotel Senior Championship and Mulryan Construction Intermediate Championship began this evening. Reigning Senior Champions Clann na nGael were beaten and Tulsk laid down a marker for the Intermediate title.
Rugby
Connacht have defeated Glasgow Warriors 14-7 and finish 2nd in the PRO12 Table. This means that they get a home Semi-Final against Glasgow Warriors (again) in two weeks time.
Elsewere, Leinster topped the Table, Glasgow finished third and Ulster finished fourth.
Munster finished sixth and qualified for next season’s European Challenge Cup
Hurling
The Roscommon Senior Hurlers are out of the Christy Ring Cup. The suffered a 1-7 to 1-14 defeat to Down in Ballycran. Match Report here
Friday
Soccer
Premier Division Cup Quarter Final
Cloonfad Utd 2 MD Town 3
Division 1 Cup Round 1
Rahara Rovers 1 Brazukas 11
Division 1 Cup Quarter Final
Shiven Rovers 6 Kilkerrin Utd 1
Elsewhere Athlone Town lost 2-1 to Drogheda United in the Airtricity League of Ireland First Division
Gaelic Games
U16 Football League Division One Final
Clan na nGael 6-6 St Brigid’s 3-6
Updates
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