Last Saturday North Down ladies fourths ended their highly successful season with the Junior Cup final at Stormont against local rivals Ards 3rds. Having won all their league matches and finishing top of the league, North Down looked to put the icing on the cake and lift the Junior Cup title. This however didn’t prove…
Congratulations to Adam Cunningham and Ben Johnston from our U 15 squad who shared the winners’ Ferris Cup medals on Thursday after Sullivan Upper tied with Cookstown 1-1 in the Final. Keep going guys, further North Down glory awaits!
The first of our three big games in the next few weeks is tomorrow when the ladies fourths play Ards thirds at Stormont in the Junior Cup Final at 10.30 am. Last year the ladies reached the Junior Plate Final and narrowly lost 3-2 to Civil Service seconds but JR and her team will be…
We are planning on hiring a bus to take supporters to the Irish Trophy final in Dublin on 12 April. The bus will leave Comber at 9.00 am and return leaving Dublin at 5.00 pm. The final is at 1.00 pm. We are intending to hire a 55 seater bus which will cost about £12…
North Down Ladies 1sts made history on Saturday as they made it to the final of the Irish Hockey Trophy after defeating Cookstown 2-1 at Comber. Honours were even going into the game as in three previous meetings this season both sides had won their home fixture and battled out a 3-3 draw back in…
The ladies first eleven play their Irish Trophy semi final this Saturday at 1.00 pm at Comber Leisure Centre against Cookstown. They have already defeated Galway, Our Lady’s and Ballymena en route to this stage, all by close margins. All games this season against Cookstown have also been close with one win, one draw and…
On Saturday the ladies thirds played their last game of the season against top of the table Ulster Elks thirds, the teams having drawn 0-0 earlier in the season. After some early pressure from the Elks, North Down eventually settled and gave the visitors’ defense a run for their money with some shots on target….
North Down travelled to Queens last Saturday for their final league game of the season knowing that they were already guaranteed a playoff against either Civil Service or Raphoe for the final place in the Premier League next season. The game was played at a fast pace with both teams trying to play attractive hockey. …
Last Saturday North Down 4ths travelled the short distance across to Ards Leisure Centre to play Ards 4ths in the semi final of the Junior Cup. North Down had anticipated that this would be a tough match even though they were in the section above Ards and indeed it turned out to be so. The…
North Down progressed to the Semi-Finals of the Irish Trophy after another victory, like the previous round on penalty strokes. This time the unfortunate losers were Ballymena. North Down weren’t at their most fluent attacking selves but a rock solid defensive performance from everyone ensured a 0-0 draw at the end of the 70 minutes and…