Last Friday night, the ladies 2nds played away at the Dub against Pegasus 2nds. The North Down team knew that the match ahead was going to be tough given the standard of matches already played this season. Having been promoted to Junior 1 after finishing top of the league last year, the North Down ladies…
A much changed North Down men’s third eleven travelled to Cookstown thirds for their final league cup group game. Knowing they were already unable to qualify after earlier defeats, the aim was to get a win and set the team up nicely for the start of the league campaign. Cookstown started well piling the pressure…
North Down ladies thirds entertained Dungannon seconds at Comber Leisure Centre last Saturday. Having beaten the Ulster Elks the previous week the girls were determined to keep the winning streak. Dungannon started off strongly dominating the majority of the first half. The opposition had a few chances to score in the early minutes of the…
North Down ladies fourths travelled to Coleraine seconds last Saturday for a first round game in the Junior Cup. In the opening minutes it was end to end stuff and Coleraine scored after 7 minutes but North Down soon counter-attacked and good midfield play from Karen Jackson, Jo Irwin and Lauren Spence produced a through…
North Down ladies 2nd XI played Dromore 2nds at home on Saturday. After a week off, North Down had a strong start pressuring Dromore in the circle, resulting in an early goal from Heather Brittain. Dromore fought back and scored half way through the first half making it 1-1. North Down brought it back and…
North Down ladies thirds travelled to Jordanstown last Friday night to play their first fixture against Ulster Elks thirds. An eclectic mix of youth and experience took to the field to face the young well drilled Elks side. In the first few minutes, Elks threatened the North Down defence, but sweeper Rachel Cairns kept things…
The ladies fifths travelled to Roughfort Playing Fields last Saturday to face Owls seconds. The last time these teams met was at the very end of last season in the Minor Plate final which North Down fifths won, however this North Down team was a very different one from the final. Julie Fisher, Karen Jackson…
Savvy seconds play the long game and keep league intentions close to their chest in meaningless 3-2 league cup defeat to rascally Seasiders (Kilkeel 2nds away in League Cup) and their Brexit defying German. 1-0 up after the opening exchanges following some splendiferous buildup by Dave “The Rage” Shepherd the seconds were caught with their defence…
North Down entertained high flying Portadown on Saturday at Comber Leisure Centre. Portadown have already qualified for the Kirk Cup semi-finals so North Down knew they would be in for a hard game. Portadown opened at a furious pace and penned North Down deep in their 25 however the home defence held firm and they…
North Down travelled to Cookstown on Saturday in a confident mood following the previous weeks positive result but found the home side a much more difficult challenge and without Phil Wilson, Chris Speers and skipper Ross Linter were no match for the side just relegated from the IHL. Cookstown pressed from the start and only…