| Darren Doherty won his 15 singles semi final last night and himself and Killian Carroll won the 17 doubles semi final in the US Junior Nationals. The 15 & Under final will be a repeat of the World Championship final in October 2009 when he will once again take on Tyler Stoffel of the USA - hopefully with the same outcome! The 55th USA Handball Junior Nationals which started on the 27th December. Croke Park send a team to America every year to compete in this tournament . Darren Doherty from Emyvale earned himself a place on the Irish Junior Team when he on the Irish Nationals back in November. The team, consisting of 3 boys and 3 girls as well as Team Manager Joe McCann from Mayo and Assistant Team Manager Ashley Prendiville from Kerry travelled to San Diego, California for the US Junior Nationals on the 21st December. Darren was the only Monaghan player to be selected for the team with the others from Cork, Roscommon, Tyrone and Down. Darren and the rest of the team have been in sparkling form, and are all still in the tournament which is down to the semi final stages now.
Darren is competing in the 15 and Under Singles competition and also in the 17 and Under Doubles tournament with partner and team-mate Killian Carroll from Cork.
The semi final of the Singles takes place this evening at around 6 pm against Galen Riordan from Wexford,
with the semi of the doubles competition against a USA pairing happening around 1 am Irish time. The squad are expected to return on the 3rd January.  |
Friday, 31 December 2010 17:19