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Irish U19 24th March '07

A few upsets unfolded at the Irish U/19 Badminton Tournament in the Terenure Badminton Centre. Wallace High’s Tony Stephenson caused the biggest upset by firstly beating the number 2 seed Gavin Mc Auley in the semi final, then Stephenson took on Royal and Prior’s (Donegal) Sam Magee (No.1 Seed) in the final. Stephenson took the opening set 21-17, but Magee used his wealth of experience and took the middle set 21-15, this left the supporters with a thrilling final set with Stephenson only 16 years of age taking the last set 21-17 and the national title.

Ciara Brady (St Mary’s Glasinevin) caused another upset in the girl’s singles by pushing aside the No.2 seed Emma Callow (Wallace High) in a 3 set thriller in the semi final stages, but Ciara lost out in the final to the No.1 seed and top class player in all 3 categories, Sinead Chambers (Rathmore Grammar Lisburn). Sinead then teamed up with Emma Callow to beat Wexford duo of Laura Lynch (St Mary’s New Ross) and Laura Butler (Colaiste Brid Enniscorty) in the girls doubles final and finally Chambers took the Mixed doubles title with Tony Murphy (Friends Lisburn) to make it once again a hat trick of titles for the Lisburn girl.

Sam Magee went home with the boy’s doubles title when he teamed up with Lisburns Sam Clegg (Friends Lisburn) to take on the ”Alpha” Pairing of Gavin McAuley and Tony Stephenson. There was only one winner in this match and the two “Sams” took the title 21-17, 21-17.

For all the Leinster players who achieved good results in recent juvenile tournaments, they have been rewarded by being selected for the Leinster Adult team who played last weekend against Somerset in the English Inter County League Div3. Those players that made their debut were Mark Donnelly (Institute), Ciara Brady, Laura Lynch, Laura Butler.

Resuts of Finals

Boys Singles: T Stephenson bt S Magee 21-17,15-21,21-17

Doubles: S Magee/S Clegg bt G McAuley/T Stephenson 21-17,21-17
Girls Singles: S Chambers bt C Brady 21-14,21-9

Doubles: S Chambers/E Callow bt L Lynch/L Butler 21-18,21-15

Mixed: T Murphy/S Chambers bt G Mc Auley/S Kerr 21-16,22-20

Lead picture: Tony Stephenson

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Written By: Leanne Cullen
Date Posted: 3/26/2007
Number of Views: 1147

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