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Sat 1st Oct 2011
BT Rannafast Cup Section A
St Mary's Magherafelt v Colaisti Inis Eoghain
Fr McNally Park, Banagher.
Monday 3rd October, Throw in 4.30 pm
St Mary's GAC Banagher, nestled in shadow of The Sperrins is the setting on Monday afternoon for the for the first ever Rannafast Cup meeting of St Mary's Magherafelt and Colaisti Inis Eoghain.
The South Derry school although founded in 1927, only started taking in boys in 1978 and now have over 1100 pupils. They are renowned for producing great college players over the years and field sides in no less than eight of the Ulster Colleges football competitions as well as competing in a number of hurling competitions. In 2008 Nathan Rocks captained the side when they achieved their first ever Brock Cup success following great victories over Omagh CBS in the semi final and St Patricks College Dungannon in the final.
The Inishowen Schools combination, who draw players from all five schools in the Inishowen Peninsula, will have been encouraged by their performance in the drawn game against St Macartans of Monaghan and will feel they will have more to offer as the weeks go by. The younger players who stepped up from last Years Corn na nOg squad such as Darren Gallagher and John Campbell, gave a good account of themselves in the opening game and players such as Kevin McLaughlin, Darrach O Connor, Adam Byrne, Kieran O Connor and Conor Harkin are already seasoned campaigners.
Donegal and Derry rivalry is always hard to beat and several of the players on both sides represented their county in the recent U16 Buncrana Cup, and of course there is an old score to settle following Donegal's success over the Oak Leaf county in this years Ulster Final in Clones. Weather permitting, a good open game of football is on the cards at the Banagher venue with a result difficult to predict
Submitted by: Gerard Callaghan
