Exciting trips in store for Carniny Youth sides

Both the Under 10s and 11s will enjoy a trip to Murray Park in June where they will be the guests of Glasgow Rangers, enjoy a tour of the top class training facility and play games against some of the Rangers Academy teams.

Carniny U12s received great news this week when their fixture against PSG Academy from Paris was confirmed for May 4.

The boys will travel to Paris for 4 days were they will experience the thrills of Euro Disney before taking on the might of Paris Saint Germain and hope to display their own free flowing passing style of football to their hosts.

After the friendly match the boys will travel to PSG’s Stadium to watch their home game against Rennes that will hopefully win the French championship for them.

The trip was arranged with the help of local man Jonathan Calderwood who is now the PSG head groundsman and is certainly making a name for himself in Paris and around the world.

The trip will be a wonderful experience for the Carniny boys who already have been to Scotland to play Rangers, Holland and Portugal to play Benfica.

If any parent feels that their son would be good enough to be part of such a fantastic squad of players and enjoy the same benefits please contact Jason Hunter on 07885899290.

Carniny Youth U-16s will head off to England on the 25th April as guests of Stoke City FC for a long weekend.

They will get a tour of the famous Britannia Stadium which is renowned for its atmosphere and then receiving coaching from the Professional coaches at the club before the highlight of the weekend when they are present at the Premier League fixture as Stoke City entertain Tottenham Hotspur.

The boys will be picked up from Birmingham airport by coach before being taken to their hotel accommodation close to the ground. Other plans are in the pipeline for what will surely be a memorable weekend.

FOYLE CUP

The North West will be awash with Carniny Youth teams this July when the U10s, 12s, 13s and 16s will all be participating in the Foyle Cup.

Carniny, as the first club in the Borough to take part when Carniny Under 12s reached the final stages of the main tournament in 2007 before losing to Heart of Midlothian in the final stages will be looking to further enhance the club’s reputation in this illustrious tournament.

WEEKEND ROUND-UP

Carniny Youth teams had quite an impressive weekend last Saturday with six wins, again with some high scoring games along the way.

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Carniny Youth 3, Dungiven Celtic 1: Dungiven forced a corner which was partially cleared to the edge of the box for their midfielder to volley home against the run of play.

With the half drawing to a close, Jack Kennedy robbed a defender and his shot rebounded to Greer who headed into Kennedy’s path to equalise right on half time!

Early in the second half, good pressure from Jack Kennedy saw him steal the ball and one-against-one with the keeper, he slid the ball home for 2-1.

The game was sealed when a Carniny corner was cleared up to the half way line to Adam Courtney who was back on and after controlling the ball, took a long range shot and score a wonder goal that flew into the top corner leaving the Dungiven keeper helpless.

Carniny: Magee, Kennedy, Neill, Greer (capt), Graham, Scott, Courtney, Moody

Carniny Amateurs 10, Dungiven Celtic Colts 1: Carniny took an early lead when William Francey found some space and turned the ball home to open the scoring.

Cormac McMullan then won possession and a solo run and a calm finish past the keeper built Carniny’s lead. Another corner shortly before half time was again well taken by Adam Douglas and this time Archie McGreevey was on hand to score.

Dungiven started the second half well and caught the Carniny defence off guard and drew one back but Carniny responded almost immediately with Cormac McMullan again getting the goal.

Ciaran McQuillan then swung in a fantastic corner and Lewis McKee turned the ball home this time. McKee also scored the next one, slotting the ball past the Dungiven keeper.

Ciaran McQuillan then got on the score sheet following up a Joel Murray shot.

A nice piece of play between Cormac McMullan and Lewis McKee saw the latter score again. Two further strikes by Cormac McMullan closed out the game.

Carniny: Strange, Douglas, Murray, Francey, K McMullan, McQuillan, C McMullan, McGreevey, Wylie, McKee

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Carniny Amateurs 0, Coleraine Academy: The Amateurs’ three-game unbeaten run came to an end at the hands of a good Coleraine side.

Carniny: McGrath, McPeake, O’Boyle, Porter, Balmer, McClure, Millar, Farenden, Murray.

Carniny Youth 0, Bertie Peacock Youth 6: Carniny Youth also found Coleraine-based opposition too hot to handle, despite an excellent display from goalkeeper Nathaniel Hanna.

Carniny; Hanna, Kelly, Hanna, Fletcher, Foster, Condron, Clarke, Herron, Dael.

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Carniny Youth 7, Coleraine 0: Carniny opened the scoring 1after 10 minutes when Taylor Adger, playing the left wing struck an unstoppable drive across the keeper and into the top corner.

Ross Kerr then capitalised on gaps in the Coleraine defence, grabbing a hat-trick before half time.

Carniny were straight out of the blocks for the second half, and Dylan Johnston made it five, scoring from a tight angle. Carniny keep Coleraine under pressure, and after having two goals ruled out for offside, made it six when Ross Kerr tapped in after the Coleraine keeper had made two great saves to deny Carniny’s wingers.

Carniny completed their pleasing day in front of goal when striker Joel Telford ran onto a through ball, and finished low past the keeper.

Carniny: Friel, C Kerr, McMullan, Gregg, Reid, Pogue, Telford, Adger, R Kerr, Pjanczek, Johnston, McAuley

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Carniny Youth 3, Loughgall Youth 1: Carniny made the perfcet start with a first minute goal when Aidan Graffin hit an unstoppable effort into the roof of the net.

With 10 minutes to go in the half Carniny made it 2-0 when Mearns controlled the ball with his back to goal on the edge of the box he laid it back to Kyle Anderson and with very little back lift he managed to smash the ball into the top corner.

Within 5 minutes of the restart Loughgall scored to make it 2-1 but Carniny sealed victory when Craig Farquhar arrived late in the box to head home from a corner.

Carniny: McNicholl, Young, Farquhar, Lamont, White, Anderson, Lynn, Moore, Mearns, Graffin, Hunter.

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Carniny Youth 1, BUFC YA 2: United took the lead early in the game with a powerful strike which Parker got a hand to but was unable to keep out.

Carniny equalised on the stroke of half time from a Joshua Courtney free kick.

The second half began with Utd pushing up well on Carniny and soon had their noses in front from a back post header. Carniny; Parker, Ervine, Clyde, Campbell, Winter, Fleming, Gordon, Archer, Stewart, Courtney, Logan.

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Carniny Youth 6, Institute 1: Carniny got off to the perfect start when Cory Little was upended in the box on his first run forward in the first two mins and was given a penalty which Little himself stepped up to take to give Carniny the lead.

Carniny dominated the first half but it was towards the end of the half when McDonnell doubled Carniny’s lead on 32 mins. Little then added a third and his second before the half time whistle when he won another penalty and converted it to give Carniny a third goal advantage at half time.

Carniny continued their dominance in the second half and had this cup tie wrapped up in the next 10 mins with another two from Little taking his tally to 4 for this match and a single effort from Ronnie Marshall giving Carniny a six goal advantage before Institute grabbed a late consolation.

Carniny: Reid, Houston, Henderson, Downey, Leetch, Lemon, Marshall, Daly, Young, Little, McDonnell, Crawford, O’Brien.

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Carniny Youth 1, Cliftonville 3: Cliftonville took the lead after 10 minutes when their striker ran on to a through ball, outpaced the defence and poked the ball past the on rushing keeper James McClean.

The Reds continued their domination for the remainder of the half and just before half time doubled their lead when the ball was scrambled in from close range.

Cliftonville ended the game as a contest early in the half with a well taken third goal. With 10 minutes to go Conor Doherty finished strongly to give the All Blacks some hope but there was no further scoring.

Carniny: McClean, McComb, McGall, Galbraith, Adams, Marshall, O’Mullan, Maybin, Houston, Johnston, Doherty, Campbell

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Carniny Youth 3, Sion Swifts 1: Sion Swifts opened the scoring midway through the first half but Carniny were awarded a penalty when Matthew Shevlin was brought down in the area when through on goal and as a result a Sion Swifts defender was sent off. Shevlin got to his feet and scored from the penalty.

A short time later Carniny scored a second goal when a Sion Swifts defender scored an own goal.

In the closing five minutes Carniny made the score 1-3 when Tyrone Balmer rounded the keeper to score.

Owen Marquess, Owen McCartney, Thomas Johnston, Adam Rowe, Alex Platt, James Price, Krystian Jaworski, Jamie Killough, Adam Mairs, Matthew Shevlin, Tyrone Balmer, Joseph McCann, Joshua Graham, Janusz Wojtowicz.