Another win for the badminton Rags

There is one league match and one Open to report on this week as the season comes to a close and our feature match come from Men’s 1 in their DDL semi Final, writes Enda O'Neill, PRO of Kilcullen Badminton Club. This match was played in Baldoyle to an equally good KADKA team from Dublin.

Paddy and Gareth were out in the first men’s and lost the first set to the KADKA pairing but quickly recovered winning the second set and taking the third set in a gripping 22-20 final set, so going in the second game KBC were one nil up. It was now the turn of the second men’s pairings to play. Dave and young gun Darren won their game in two sets 21-17 and 21-18 which meant if the third pairing of Dave and Gareth won KBC would make another final. This game went to the wire with Dave and Gareth loosing the first set but taking the second and third sets to win the match. If Dave, Paddy, Darren and Gareth win this final KBC will have a Division 2 team in the Leagues which is such a massive achievement for the lads and the club. Well done to the lads and good luck in the final on Thursday May 1.

Sunday 27 April saw the Leinster Individual Inter County Cup and again KBC took home some silverware. Lynsey and Dave continued on their winning steak after taking the Grade E All Ireland Championships by winning the Grade 3 Mix competition in 3 sets. There was also some success in the Singles competition with for young gun Darren Lee winning the Grade 3 Final, well done to all involved.

Finally a big thanks to our Men’s 1 team of Dave, Paddy, Gareth and Darren who took time out of their busy schedule to do a demo for the Juvenile club last Saturday morning. Kilcullen Juvenile Badminton Club also had their awards day on Saturday. In photo are the KBC Juvenile Club along with our award winners of Avon Dempsey Matthew Kelly Rachael Downey Caoimhe, Ben Phelan and the Downey twins.