by Kevin Egan
What was expected to be a busy week for a lot of local schools in their respective Connacht senior football championships fell foul of the cold snap, with a host of games provisionally refixed for various stages across the next seven days.
The meeting of Roscommon CBS and St Attracta’s of Tubbercurry was one of the most attractive quarter-finals in the Connacht Senior ‘B’ championship, and if there is a thaw overnight, that game is set to be played tomorrow (Friday) at 11 am at the Connacht Centre of Excellence, which plays host to most fixtures.
Also at the same stage of the same competition, Scoil Mhuire of Strokestown were scheduled to play St Muredach’s of Ballina, and that game will now take place next Monday, January 13th, at 12.30 pm, as will the meeting of Carrick-on-Shannon Community School and a hotly-fancied Calasanctius College team from Oranmore, with a handful of North Roscommon players likely to tog out for the Leitrim school.
There is no Roscommon school involved in the ‘A’ championship while the ‘C’ quarter-final line-up doesn’t feature any school from the county either, though there will be Roscommon representation in the Glenamaddy CS team that will take on St Clare’s Comprehensive (Manorhamilton) in Ballinameen next Wednesday.
Given the significant upturn in the fortunes of Castlerea St Kevin’s at underage level this year, the Castlerea Community School side will be seen as one of the county’s leading chances of winning a Connacht senior schools title in the next month or two, and at the time of writing their clash with Drumshanbo VS is still scheduled to take place today (Thursday) in Bekan, though this is expected to be refixed.
Coláiste Mhuire (Ballygar) meet St Tiernan’s in their ‘D’ quarter-final next Tuesday in Bekan at 12.30, while no refixture time has been announced for the contest between Roscommon Community College and St Cuan’s of Castleblakeney in the same grade.
