The annual climax of Galway’s underage basketball, the A and B finals, took place in the new NUIG gym at the weekend.
Every club took at least one title on the day with Maree winning five of the 10 A finals. Bearna, Claregalway, Moycullen, Corrib and Clare Cascaders each won one title.
Maree will go on to represent Galway at the All-Ireland Club Championships in Cork (u-14 and u-16 Boys ), Mohill (u-14 Girls ) and Dublin (u-16 Girls ). Of the eight B finals, Claregalway and Corrib won three each, and Bearna and Titans one apiece. Between A and B finals, Moycullen contested nine and Maree eight.
The girls u-15A final was a cliff-hanger, and it took a period of overtime to separate the teams, with Corrib getting past Maree by one point. The other one-pointer was the u-13B girls final, with Corrib again edging it, this time over Bearna. The u-12A girls’ decider also went down to the wire, with the Bearna girls turning the tables on Corrib by two points. Maree’s u-16 boys racked up 77 points in their win over Moycullen, the highest tally in the finals. The next highest total was 50, hit by the Maree u-16 girls in their defeat of Corrib.
Results: Boys; U-12A, Maree 36 Moycullen 9; U-12B, Titans 17 Bearna 9; U-13A, Maree 33 Moycullen 20; U-13B, Corrib 18 Bearna 17; U-14A, Maree 45 Moycullen 36; U-14B, Corrib 33 Titans 16; U-15A, Claregalway 40 Moycullen 32; U-16A, Maree 77 Moycullen 29; U-16B, Claregalway 33 Titans 24; Girls; u-12A, Bearna 7 Corrib 5; U-12B, Claregalway 20 Moycullen 18; U-13A, Moycullen 31 Maree 19; U-13B, Bearna 14 Moycullen 9;U-14A, Cascaders 32 Maree 19; U-14B, Corrib 17 Bearna 9; U-15A, Corrib 26 Maree 25;U-16A, Maree 50 Corrib 24; U-16B, Claregalway 23 Moycullen 17.
