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At the 2010 Junior and Cadet 6 Nations Championships, Team Ireland will travel home on Sunday night with 3 Gold medals – 2 in the Team events and one in the individuals. First to register Gold was the Cadet Girls Team of new National Senior Champion Ashley Givan and Edel O’Reilly of Munster. Under the guidance of NPC Louise Long, the cadet girls were undefeated, beating England to take Gold. Next up was the Junior Boys, fresh from their win at the Junior British League. the trio of McCreery, Robinson and Logue maintained their excellent overseas form to also pip England to the Gold, winning all 5 of their matches. 

Paul McCreery registered another impressive performance, taking gold in Sunday’s Individual event. With wins over compatriot Ashley Robinson in the Quarter Final and England’s Lewis Gray in the Semi-Final, McCreery faced local home crowd favourite Sean Doherty. Having dropped the first two sets, McCreery showed steely determination to claw his way back into the match, taking the 3rd set 11-5, before levelling at 11-7. This set up a thrilling last set where McCreery held his nerve and justified his No.1 seeding to become Junior 6 Nations Champion. In the Cadet Girls, new National Senior Champion also progressed to the Individual Final, where she faced Vicki Smith. Smith proved too strong for Givan, taking the match in four sets. However Givan will be happy with Silver, adding to her already significant medal tally in 2010.

Congratulations to all medal winners, this has been the most succesful Junior 6 Nations for the Irish squad for some time.

Main Results from Sunday’s Individual EventsJunior 6 Nations, Scotland 12 – 14 March, 2010
Junior Boys QFS:Paul McCreery (Ire) bt Ashley Robinson(Ire) 3/0Lewis Gray (Eng) bt Daniel Basterfield (Eng) 3/1Daniel ‘Connell (Wa)  bt Josh Jenkins (Wa) 3/0 Sean Doherty (Scot) bt Cameron Thomas (W) 3/0
Junior Boys SFS:Paul McCreery bt Lewis Gray 3/1Sean Doherty bt Daniel ‘Connell 3/0
Junior Boys F: Paul McCreery bt Sean Doherty -8, -6, 5, 7, 9
Junior Girls QFS:Natalie Slater(E) bt Rebecca Kenny (I)  3/0Chloe Thomas (W) bt Sara Timlin (I) 3/0Alice Loveridge (Guer) bt Natasha Milliken (S) 3/0Chloe White (E) bt Megan Phillips (W) 3/0
Junior Girls SFS:Natalie Slater bt Chloe Thomas 3/1Chloe White bt Alice Loveridge 3/1
Junior Girls Final: Chloe White bt Natalie Slater 3/0

Cadet Boys QFS:Igor Morais(E) bt Neil Irwin (I) 3/0 Scott Barton (S) bt Lee Morgan (W) 3/1Lewis Wilson (W) bt Ying Jin (S) 3/0Jared Patel (E)  bt Ryan Farrell (I) 3/0
Cadet Boys SFS:Igor Morais by Scott Barton 3/1Lewis Williams bt Jared Patel 3/2
Cadet Boys Final: Igor Morais by Lewis Williams 3/1 
Cadet Girls QFS:Edel O’Reilly (I)  bt Charlotte Carey (W) 3/2Charleigh Kirby (E) bt Beth Roberts (W) 3/0
Cadet Girls SFS:Vicki Smith (E)  bt Edel O’Reilly 3/0Ashley Givan (I) bt Charleigh Kirby 3/1
Cadet Girls Final: Vicki Smith bt Ashley Givan 3/1

Junior Boys Consolation Final: Sam Logue (I) bt Calum Main (S) 3/0Junior Girls Consolation Final: Lynda Flaws (S) bt Hannah Avery (W) 3/1Cadet Boys Consolation Final: Laurence Stacey (GU) bt Joshua Stacey (GU) 3/1Cadet Girls Consolation Final: Donna Gillon (S) bt Nadine Wright (S) 3/2

The Leinster Premier League which was staged in a central venue at ESB Sportco, Ringsend, Dublin has its third session of matches where the leaders Eastpoint 1 beat Pioneers and UCD 2 comfortably. UCD also won their matches beating Athlone and Pioneers leaving them one point behind the leaders going into the final session of matches on Sunday 21st March 2010 – it looks like being an enthralling battle between UCD and Eastpoint as UCD attempt to defend their crown from last season. In the individuals Mark O’Flynn (Eastpoint) has a comfortable lead and will be very hard to catch at this stage.

At the Cardiff Open in Wales this weekend, Irish players produced some top class performances to claim some major silverware. Paul McCreery took both the Men’s Open Singles and the Men’s Band 1 event to continue his good run of form going in to this weekend’s Butterfly Senior National Championships. In the Women’s event, as expected Na Liu took the Women’s title and Amanda Mogey produced a spectacular performance to defeat Welsh No.1 Naomi Owen, who is ranked significantly higher in the ITTF World Rankings. Irish players across the board showed improved performances – Ashley Givan won Band 2 and Band 3 of the Women’s event and made the semi-final of the Under 21s. Rebecca Kenny was also in fine form, making the semis of the Band 2 and Band 3 events, defeating Hannah Avery along the way. Team-mate Sara Dolan also made the semi-final of the Under 21s – Dolan had an excellent tournament, recording a significant victory over Angharad Phillips. Connacht’s Sarah Timlin also prduced a strong showing and is quicky developing in her 1st year at international level.

Selected Results

Mens Band 1:

Paul Mc Creery beat Polish player Thomas Rzeszotko in Final and Welsh No. 4 Patrick Thomas in semis.

 Mens Open:

Paul McCreery beat Welsh No. 2 Stephen Jenkins in final in 5 sets

Men’s Under 21:

Paul McCreery beat Patrick Thomas Wales 3/0

Men’s Band 6:

Former Irish Champion and Irish International, Alan Monks bt. Stephen Slater. Monks, formerly from the Eastpoint Club in Dublin and now a coach in the Greenhouse Project also won Band 5.

 Women’s Open:

Semi final:  Amanda Mogey bt no.1 seed and Welsh no.1, Naomi Owen 3/0

Final: Liu Na bt. Amanda Mogey 3/0

 Women’s Band 1:

Amanda Mogey bt. Santa Clements 3/0 in final

 Restricted Singles:

Amanda Mogey bt.D. Arrowsmith 3/0 in final