Battle of the brains
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Wednesday March 03 2010
THE RIVERBANK House Hotel in Wexford, was packed to the rafters recently for the annual county Community Games Under-14 table quiz competition.
A total of 44 teams representing KilrushAskamore, Ballycanew, Bannow - Ballymitty, Bree-Davidstown, Clonroche - Poulpeasty, Castlebridge-Crossabeg, Craanford, Glynn-Barntown, Gorey, Horeswood, Kilmore, Newbawn - Raheen , Piercestown-Murrintown, Oulart, Rathangan, RathgarogueTaghmon and Tintern were there to battle it out for the honour of representing Area and county at the national finals in Athlone in May.
The questions were set by Jim Doyle, Bree, who also acted as quizmaster, and the standard of answering was extremely high.
Wexford Community Games wishes to thank most sincerely the staff and management of the hotel for putting their premises at the disposal of the committee and for their help on the night, to those who helped out with correcting papers and marking the scoreboard, and those who acted as stewards. Thanks also to the competitors and their coaches for their cooperation.
A team from Newbawn-Raheen and one from CastlebridgeCrossabeg were neck and neck throughout, with teams from Rathangan and Tintern hot on their heels.
At the end of the ten rounds of ten questions, both Newbawn-Raheen and Castlebridge-Crossabeg tied for first place on 91 points, with Rathangan and Tintern in joint third place on 90 points. Teams from Horeswood and Bannow-Ballymitty were not too far behind either with scores in the mid80s, and there were many other teams scoring 80 points and over.
The two teams who tied for first place had to sit down and answer another round as only one team can go through to the national finals from the county. Lady luck shone on Castlebridge-Crossabeg who won out and were awarded the gold medals, with the gallant side from NewbawnRaheen receiving the silver medals. Bronze medals were awarded to Rathangan and Tintern.
The winning team from CastlebridgeCrossabeg were Conor Neville, Aaron Lambert, Michelle Fox, William Kinsella, Oisín Foley and Jane Corish. The Newbawn-Raheen team were Eoin Furlong, Claire Stephenson, Róisín Stephenson, Pádraig Kavanagh and Ciara Stephenson.
Joint third were Rathangan's Claire Cullen, Seán Redmond, Aaron Howlin, Alice Bellamy, Sarah White and Saoirse Heaney and Tintern's Katie Whelan, Grace Banville, Donal Kiely, Michael Whelan, Ciara Kinsella and Patricia Cullen.
