Local bowlers play their part in Junior Triple Crown success for Ireland team
A NUMBER of Tallaght and Palmerstown tenpin bowlers played their part in one of Ireland’s most successful Junior Triple Crown campaigns in recent years.
Indeed, a squad of 12 bowlers travelled to Guilford to compete against their counterparts in England and Scotland in this year’s competition from which they returned home with a haul of 37 medals.
Based out of Tallaght Leisureplex, Lorcan and Sean Staines, Aoife Lawlor, Skye Byrne and Abby McKeever all served up great performances.
Lorcan won silver in the Under 19 Trios and bronze in the doubles while his brother Sean, competing at Under 16 degree, won gold in the trios and bronze in the team competition.
What’s more, the points accumulated by Sean and his compatriots Conor Fetherston, Jack Bruton and Palmerstown bowler Mark Dunne, were enough to see Ireland capture the Under 16 Boys Shield for the first time in more than a decade.
Lawlor, Byrne and McKeever teamed up to go top of the podium in the Under 16 Girls Trios before the former, together with another of the Palmerstown contingent Aimée Whistler, finished runners-up in the doubles.
All four competitors then combined to also scoop silver in the four-person team event.
The team of Lorcan Staines, Sean O’Connor, Sean Farren and Donal Colley picked up silver in the Under 19 Boys Team event while there was gold for Jack Bruton in the singles as well as Whistler and Dunne in the mixed doubles.
It was tremendous return for the squad, some of whom have begun to make their mark on the European stage.
Indeed, Lorcan Staines, Lawlor and Fetherston competed in this year’s European Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships in Denmark while Sean Staines qualified third in the Under 13 YET Tournament Series and finished fourth in the Finals in Holland.
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