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Galway sportswoman Jennifer Hegarty captured the Irish u-19 squash title held at the Galway Lawn Tennis Club recently.

Primary schools football finals 2010

The crowds may have been glued to a stunning All-Ireland football final on Sunday last but the squash players playing at the one-day event in Carlow LTC produced their own epic performances.

Junior squash kicked off in earnest this weekend with Galway LTC hosting the Connacht Junior Squash Championships and it turned out to be quite a weekend for Carlow’s young squash players.

In the space of three short weeks, Elaine Ware has turned the junior squash scene in Ireland on its head. Three weeks ago in Galway, this exciting Carlow player took the U-15 Connacht Junior Open and this week she travelled to Belfast where she took the U-17 title in emphatic fashion. Seeded 6th, she moved up to play U-17 as she just reached her 15th birthday. She defeated fellow club-mate Katelyn Doran in the first round, Doran went two up following a 1/6 deficit in the first game but Ware remained calm and kept working Katelyn around the court eventually winning 3/2. This turned out to be Elaine’s most difficult match as she strolled through her semi-final and defeated Jennifer Hegarty the No 1 seed from Galway 3/0.

Local junior squash player Claire Hanley claimed her first Irish squash junior tour title at the weekend.

Shaun Hennessy was Carlow’s top finisher at the Irish Junior Open held in Galway for the first time last weekend. More than 130 players from England, Norway, Sweden, and Canada all took part in an entertaining and well run event.