Shamrocks News

Shamrocks snap up Queensland awards

16 September 2002 - Two brothers from the Shamrocks Gaelic football club secured major annual awards from the Queensland Gaelic Football Association this week.

Matt Scandrett (pictured left) was named Senior Mens Best First Year Player for 2002, and younger brother Brendan Scandrett (pictured right) won the Best and Fairest Under 18 Player award.

Brendan, in his first season of Gaelic football, was also runner-up for the Best and Fairest award in the reserves competition.

The Scandrett brothers are among the favourites to also take out awards at the Shamrocks’ annual club awards to be announced at Irish O’Hanlon’s at Kenmore this Saturday night.

The honour of winning the Queensland awards come after Brisbane’s western suburbs Shamrocks club bowed out at the semi final stage in both the senior mens and ladies championship competitions earlier this month.

Two Shamrocks ladies players – Angie Doyle and Natalie Hughes – are currently in Ireland with the Australasian team preparing for the up-coming Gaelic football World Cup.

In Queensland championship finals over the weekend, John Mitchels won the senior mens for the first time in four years, Souths won the ladies for the first time in three years, and Harps the reserve mens for the second consecutive season.

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Shamrocks miss Championship final after overtime

10 September 2002 - Sarsfields advanced to their first Queensland Gaelic football senior championship final in a decade by beating Shamrocks in overtime at Willawong on the weekend.

Brisbane’s western suburbs Shamrocks led by two points at the break thanks to two early goals by Travis Basset, and by as much as six points midway through the second half.

Sarsfields, who last won the championship in 1991, then started a comeback that leveled the scores at 12-all to send the semifinal into overtime.

Shamrocks eventually went down by two points, 3-5-14 to 1-13-16.

Best for Shamrocks were Bassett, Glenn Carpenter in goals, and David Duguid in defense.

Shamrocks ladies ended their Queensland championship defense at the semi final stage with a 13-point loss to Souths on the weekend.

Missing several Gaelic football World Cup players and other regulars, Shamrocks were unable to repeat their win over Souths of a couple of weeks ago.

Best for Shamrocks were Patty Preece and Renee Moynihan.

The weekend results mean that the Shamrocks club goes trophy-less for the first season in five years.

The Championship finals this Sunday are John Mitchels v Sarsfields in the senior men, Souths v Harps in the reserve mens, and Souths v John Mitchels in the ladies.