Category: IHU Irish Indoor Club Championships

Irish Hockey Union Irish Indoor Club Championship 1986-87

Playoffs

W/ETeam 1Team 2
Places 5-6
15.03.1987Lisnagarvey5Glenanne4
Places 3-4
15.03.1987Mossley1Three Rock Rovers7
Final
15.03.1987Team Kaliber7Avoca8
[References: 2]

Pool Tables

Irish Indoor Club Championships 1986-87PWDLFAPts
Pool A
Avoca (F)21011092
Mossley (3P)2101992
Lisnagarvey (5P)2101672
Pool B
Team Kaliber (F)22001884
Three Rock Rovers (3P)210114152
Glenanne (5P)20027160
[References: 2]

Pool Results

W/ETeam 1Team 2
Pool A
15.03.1987Lisnagarvey2Mossley4
15.03.1987Mossley5Avoca7
15.03.1987Lisnagarvey4Avoca3
Pool B
15.03.1987Three Rock Rovers9Glenanne4
15.03.1987Team Kaliber7Glenanne3
15.03.1987Team Kaliber11Three Rock Rovers5
[References: 2]

Playoff Scorers

Places 5-6

TeamScoreScorers
Lisnagarvey5N Dunlop, I Morris, P McCabe
Glenanne4F Byrne (3), E O’Malley
[References: 2]

Places 3-4

TeamScoreScorers
Mossley1R Nelson
Three Rock Rovers7T Tully (2), K Empey (2), R Haughton (2), R Johnson
[References: 2]

Final

TeamScoreScorers
Team Kaliber7Kenny Morris (6), N Crawford
Avoca8Nigel Kingston (3), J Watterson (2), M Cullen, Richardson, S Filgas
[References: 2]

Report

Avoca ended the six-year reign of Belfast’s Team Kaliber in the Irish Indoor Club Championships at the Valley Leisure Centre in Newtownabbey over the St.. Patrick’s Weekend in 1987. Avoca only just managed to scrape into the Final on goal difference after losing their last Pool game 4-3 to Lisnagarvey. Team Kaliber, meanwhile, won their Pool comfortably with a 7-3 win over Tallaght side Glenanne and a 11-5 victory over Rathfarnham’s Three Rock Rovers.

The final itself was cracking, with Avoca marking tightly to prevent Team Kaliber going more than one goal ahead the entire match and even needing an equaliser to send the match into 20 minutes of extra-time at 4-4. Avoca twice came from a goal down in the extra period, with Nigel Kingston completing his hat-trick to win 8-7. Other goals for Avoca in the Final came from Watterson (2), Cullen, Richardson and Filgas.

Kenny Morris, named “Man of the Tournament”, was obviously disappointed not to win, as he scored 6 goals in the Final for Team Kaliber for a total of 15 in the tournament and 151 for the season. The match for third place ended 7-1 to Three Rock Rovers, with goals coming from Tully (2), Empey (2), Haughton (2) and Johnson.

Venue: Valley Leisure Centre, Newtownabbey, 13-15 March 1987

Reference

Newspapers

[2] Anon. (1987) Sport in Brief: Hockey Irish Times . Monday, March 16, 1987 pg. 5 [Internet] Available from:  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1987/0316/Pg005.html#Ar00503 [The Irish Times Archive is a Subscription Archive]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Kevin Smyth, Richard Conville and Richard Sheehy.

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