Badminton update

There are four club matches to report on this week for KBC, writes Enda O'Neill, PRO of Kilcullen Badminton Club. The first match we cover was Tuesday's Mix 1 match at home to Ailsbury in the division 3 Dublin District League. Mix 1 continued their league campaign with another 4-0 victory only dropping one set in the match. Well done to Gareth, Norrie, Caroline and Paddy an impressive win from our division 3 cup finalists.

Also on Tuesday night, Mix 4 played away to local rivals St Laurences in a hard-fought match. This close affair ended up in a 2-2 draw and is an excellent result for the team. Mix 4 are well on track to get out of their group and progress to the next round of the league. Well done to Captain Nicole and her team mates Meave, Kasi and Olivier.

Wednesday the 19th of Febuary saw Dave and his Mix 2 team travel to An Caislean Nua, where they managed to get a two all draw. Dave's team were out again on Friday night in their second outing in two nights. In a close home encounter Mix 2 unfortunately lost out 3-1 in a entertaining match. Hard luck to Dave, Alastor, Lynsey and Aoife.

Also out in a division 6 DDL match were Mix 3 who played the unbeaten table toppers PBAI at home. Mix 3 went down 7-1 but this result does not reflect how close the match was. When all the points were added up at the end, PBAI managed to score just 38 points more than KBC, showing that KBC only lost their individual games by 5 points or less. There were some thrilling 3-setters played and with a bit more experience and composure KBC could have come out on top.

All is not lost however for Enda and his team who with two matches remaining can make the quarter finals if they beat St Judes at home and away. Hard luck to Jen, Helen, Sarah, Fintan, John and super subs Tara and Sean.

Finally KBC won more silverware with doubles pairings of Gareth and Paddy who won the PSLC Grade 3 Mens Doubles competion in Portmarnock. This competition was played on Saturday 22 of February. Out of the eight sets of badminton the lads played they managed to win seven and scoring a massive 335 points between them. Well done to Paddy and Gareth.

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