DROMORE VILLA 3 STRAND CELTIC 4: Our under 14 white team came out on top of a seven goal thriller in Dromore west ons aturday afternoon last. This was another good win for Brian ‘Trappatoni’ Redmond.

It leaves the under fourteen squad top of their table at this stage with one game to play. Dylan Doherty was star of the show with a double in a fine victory.

GLASGOW CELTIC COACHING SEMINARS FOR COACHES ON APRIL 5th

As part of the clubs partnership programme with Glasgow Celtic the club will be hosting two evenings for coaches in April. There will be a one and a half hour coaching session only for Strand Celtic coaches on Tuesday April 6th. This is building on the successful coaching seminar from last summer.

In addition there will be a second night that will be open to all coaches, including those from outside the club, on Thursday 5th April, from 7pm to 8:30pm with a nominal charge of €10 to cover costs. It is hoped that other clubs will take advantage of the opportunity to attend. This will be limited to 40 coaches so people are asked to book early. Bookings can be made through Strand Celtics Director of Coaching, Maurice Monaghan, on 087 946 7167.

NORTH WEST CUP COMMITTEE MEETING ON THURSDAY

11th MARCH AT 10PM Plans are developing for the North West Cup in August 2010. Last years tournament was an outstanding success and great credit was due to tournament director, Marcus White, and his organising committee. The first meeting for the organising committee will be held on Thursday night at 10pm in the clubrooms. Anyone interested in getting involved in helping with the tournament can come along on Thursday night or contact Marcus on 087 xxx xxxx.

SUPPORT URGED FOR CLUBS DEVELOPMENT CLUB DRIVE

The club are asking all players, parents, members, supporters and friends to support our development club. A new drive to encourage people to support the draw is being pushed by the club development committee and club executive. The draw only costs €10 per month and the form can be picked up at Colts training or from our website at www.strandceltic.com . Each month there is a draw with prizes including €100, €50 and a meal voucher. The funds are required to help the club fund our commitments at the recent re-development of the club grounds at Strandhill Community Park.

UNDER 14 GREEN WIN COMPETITIVE FRIENDLY SUPER LEAGUE: STRAND CELTIC 2 MERVILLE 0

It was second time lucky for Strand Celtic green team as they played and beat a strong merville side in a friendly on Sunday afternoon last. This was both teams second outing in a week and there were some good displays for both sides. This weeks victory was built on a solid defensive formation of Jamie Gillen and Ronan McCormack with a strong second half display from the midfield formation of Joyce, McCallion, Nicolson and the energetic Dylan Conway. Man of the match was Luke Nicolson whose pace and guile continually threatened. For merville Peter Kelly turned in another solid display in goals with some good stops while Feeney was all overt the pitch in the middle of the park and his midfield breaks were a constant threat. Well done to both teams on an excellent game.

BOOKINGS GOING WELL FOR GLASGOW CELTIC CAMP

Bookings are going well for our Celtic Easter camp. The club is delighted to announce another camp from Glasgow Celtic for four days from April 6th to 9th – Easter half term. One child will cost €79 and each subsequent child is €69. Application forms will be available from Centra in Strandhill and Centra in Maugheraboy.

They can also be downloaded and printed from www.strandceltic.com and on facebook by the end of this week. Get in early as we will only have 60 places and it will be first come first served for the camp. After last summers super camp the interest level promises to be very high.

PICK A WINNER FUND RAISER WELL SUBSCRIBED

Our new pick a winner competition started off last weekend. There are over 100 people entered in the competition and week one is off and running. Well done to organiser Paul Higgins and his fellow finance committee members Brian McDermott and Brian Redmond.

NEXT WEEKENDS FIXTURES

It is away all around next weekend. Our under fourteen boys green team play their last group game against Merville at 2pm. Our under 14 girls are away to Dromore villa with a 3:30pm kick off. Our under 18 girls hope to continue their fine form with an away fixture against Ballymote Celtic on Saturday morning next with an 11am kick off.

GOALKEEPING ACADEMY FOR YOUHTS ON FRIDAY NIGHT

The goalkeeping academy continues on Friday night next for our youth goalkeepers. It was great to see a good turnout of goalkeepers and particularly with the older of our goalkeepers in recent weeks. This is a great opportunity for all our young budding goalkeepers to develop under expert tuition. It is also geared towards boys and girls.

The academy is on two fridays in each month between 6pm and 8pm. The dates are maintained on the club notice board on our website (under news) and on the notice board in our clubhouse. The dates for this season are Mar 12th, Mar 26th, Apr 9th, Apr 23rd, May 7th and May 21st.