14 December 2008

North 5 South 1

The North ran out 5-1 winners in the University North v South match at the St Andrews University sports ground on Saturday 13 December 2008.

University of the Highlands & Islands player Keith MacRae - from Kinlochshiel - scored twice and Dundee University's Doug Newton scored a hat trick.

Keith MacRae was named man of the match as the North gained revenge for losing the 2007 meeting between the representative sides. 

09 December 2008

North v South

The Men's and Women's North v South University shinty clashes have been re-scheduled for this Saturday 13 December 2008.

The games will take place at the St Andrews University sports ground.

The prize on offer is the Men's and Women's Quaich. However the players will also be competing for a place in the Scottish University sides to face British Universities Hurling and Camogie All-Stars in England in January 2009

The North men's squad and ladies' squads are selected from; Aberdeen University, Dundee University, University of the Highlands & Islands, and Robert Gordons University.

The South men's squad and ladies' squads are selected from; Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, St Andrews University, and Strathclyde University.

The South won both the men’s and ladies’ matches in 2007.

Skye Camanachd are represented by Alan Palmer, David Nicolson, John Moir and Gilleasbuig MacDonald.

29 November 2008

The University Shinty North v South match scheduled for the Eilan, Newtonmore on Saturday 29 November 2008 was postponed because of the adverse weather conditions.

The match will be resheduled at a later date.

27 November 2008

The University Shinty North v South matches take place at the Eilan, Newtonmore on Saturday 29 November 2008.

24 November 2008

Edinburgh University ran out 5-3 winners in their league clash with the University of the Highlands & Islands on Saturday 22 November 2008.

Lovat duo Callum Cruden and Jamie Matheson and Newtonmore's Evan Menzies all scored for the Highlanders in their first league outing.

However Hamish Myers from Strathglass was also amongst the goals, scoring a hat-trick of penalties for Edinburgh which ensured they came away with the points. 

The UHI have a rearranged league fixture on Saturday 6 December 2008 against Glasgow University.

14 November 2008 - The Inverness Courier

The University Shinty North v South takes place at the Eilan, Newtonmore on Saturday 29 November 2008.

The prize on offer is the Men's and Women's Quaich. However the players will also be competing for a place in the Scottish University sides to face British Universities Hurling and Camogie All-Stars in England in January 2009

The North men's squad and ladies' squad are selected from; Aberdeen University, Dundee University, University of the Highlands & Islands, and Robert Gordons University.

The South men's squad and ladies' squad are selected from; Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, St Andrews University, and Strathclyde University.

The South won both the mens and ladies matches in 2007.

The ladies match throws up at 11.30am and the mens match throws up at 1pm. 

09 November 2008

The latest University shinty fixtures took place on Saturday 8 November 2008.

In the weekend’s main fixture, Strathclyde University beat Glasgow University 4-1. 

 

Skye Camanachd’s Ally MacLennan gave Glasgow the lead within the first 10 minutes and this rattled Strathclyde.  Glasgow withstood a period of Strathclyde pressure to hold onto their lead until the interval.

 

A reshuffle in the Strathclyde side at the interval saw Kyles Athletic's Grant Irvine move to at full forward. This paid off 10 minutes into the second half as Irvine scored 4 goals in little over 5 minutes, mainly due to some slack Glasgow defending. Indeed 3 of his goals were identical as Irvine took the ball past his marker and flicked it past the Glasgow keeper, Norman Gilles from Raasay, who otherwise performed well. 

 

Irvine’s fourth goal was a 20 yard drive into the roof of the net.  Glasgow regrouped, and tightened up in defence and the remainder of the game was fairly even till the final whistle.

 

This was the closest match in recent seasons between the sides as past results have gone 8-0, 5-0 and 7-2 in Strathclyde’s favour. This demonstrates the strengthening of the Glasgow team, and they will be looking forward to a rematch at the Little John Vase tournament in March 2009.

 

(Other University results to follow)

06 November 2008

This weekend's University Shinty main event is the Glasgow derby when Glasgow University take on Strathclyde University at Yoker - Glasgow Mid Argyll's pitch - on Saturday 8 November 2008.

Strathclyde are reigning University League champions and are unbeaten since March 2006. They have also won the coveted Little John Vase for the last 2 years.  They have already sent a message of intent this season, having beaten Dundee University 16-0.

 

Glasgow won the South Division2 a couple of years ago, going through the season undefeated. However even although they have been unable to capture similar form of late, they will still be looking to make their mark on Saturday.

 

Strathclyde include Skye Camanachd players Alan Palmer, David Nicolson, Robert Urquhart and possibly even Sandy Paterson. They also have Grant Irvine (Kyles Athletic), Donald MacDonald (Caberfeidh), Calum MacLean (Kinlochshiel),  Dan Hood (Glasgow Mid Argyll), James Tangy (Fort William), Gavin Park (Kilmory), Sean Cameron (Glasgow Mid Argyll), Tom Smith (Lovat) and captain Andy MacLennan (Kingussie). There are also several players from Uist. 

 

Glasgow are represented by Skye Camanachd's Gilleasbuig MacDonald, John Moir, Kerr Gibb, Ally MacLennan and Allan MacDonald. They also have Louis Munro (Kingussie) and James Livingston (Glenorchy).

It promises to be an exciting contest!

03 November 2008

There were matches played in the University Shinty League on 1/2 November 2008.

The results were;

St Andrews 1-1 Aberdeen

Strathclyde P-P Robert Gordons 

Edinburgh P-PGlasgow

In the ladies matches, Aberdeen won 4-0 at St Andrews whilst Robert Gordons won 2-1 at Strathclyde. 

26 October 2008

The opening University League shinty fixtures took place on 18 October 2008.

The results were;

St Andrews 3-2 Edinburgh

Strathclyde 16-0 Dundee

Robert Gordons 2-2 Aberdeen

UHI P-P Glasgow

In the ladies matches, Edinburgh beat St Andrews 7-0 whilst Aberdeen beat Robert Gordons 1-0. 

16 October 2008

The University Shinty League gets underway this weekend and for the first time, a team from the University of the Highlands and Islands will participate in what will now be an 8 team league.

There will also be a ladies team from UHI and club member Roddie MacLennan has made a plea for players - both male and female - in this week's West Highland Free Press.

Any male or female players who are reigistered students at any of the UHI partners - Inverness College, Lochaber College, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Lewis Castle, North Highland, Argyll College, Perth College, SAMS, SDRC, HTC - can contact Roddie on 01463 24 11 44 or e-mail roddie.maclennan@inverness.uhi.ac.uk to register their interest. Eligibility includes part-time or block release students involved in the trades.

"Potentially, UHI has the best university shinty team in Scotland." says Roddie, "How good the team becomes, understandably, depends entirely on the response from players."  

The varsity league is a great way for players to maintain their fitness over the close season and playing in the league does not affect  players' status with their home club.

One of the benefits from the switch to summer shinty has been the increased participation in University shinty. Whilst the club scene slips into winter hibernation, a record number of university teams are playing the sport.

The latest addition is the University for the Highlands and Islands who field a team for the first time this weekend when they travel to face Dundee University.

Team organiser Roddie MacLennan, a former player with Inverness, Glenurquhart and Beauly, is excited at being involved with the UHI team from the start. “The final decision to go ahead with the team was taken 6 weeks ago and since then we have been pretty busy putting the fundamentals in place.” MacLennan is confident adding, “We have real potential, more than perhaps other Universities in Scotland and in addition to being able to draw on full-time students participating in academic studies, we are able to tap into block release students, as well as youngsters being trained as part of a craft apprentice scheme.”

 

The players fitting into the UHI squad are interesting indeed. Kinlochshiel’s Scotland U21 international Keith MacRae is joined by Newtonmore’s Evan Menzies and Andrew MacKintosh, as well as Lovat first team regulars James MacPherson, Jamie Matheson and Daniel Grieve along with keeper Stuart MacDonald.

 

Beauly will be represented by Dougie Blaine, Conor Cormack and David MacLean as well as Conor Ross, Martin MacFadyen and Ross Forbes. It’s easy to agree with MacLennan’s assessment that this side would easily hold their own in Marine Harvest North Division 1.

 

MacLennan is also examining the possibility of recruiting Fort William’s Adam Robertson, who is a lecturer at Lochaber College.       

 

The team is sponsored by MacGregor Industrial Supplies and an all back strip has been selected to avoid any accusation of favouritism to any particular shinty club.

 

Any players interested in joining the UHI ranks can contact Roddy 0771 475 0307.Full time and part time students, as well as staff are eligible to play.  

 

 

The prize on offer is the Men's and Women's Quaich. However the players will also be competing for a place in the Scottish University sides to face British Universities Hurling and Camogie All-Stars in England in January 2009

The North men's squad and ladies' squads are selected from; Aberdeen University, Dundee University, University of the Highlands & Islands, and Robert Gordons University.

The South men's squad and ladies' squads are selected from; Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, St Andrews University, and Strathclyde University.

The South won both the men’s and ladies’ matches in 2007.

Skye Camanachd are represented by Alan Palmer, David Nicolson, John Moir and Gilleasbuig MacDonald.

The respective squads were listed in this week's Badenoch & Strathspey Herald as follows;

North Mens Squad

Conor Cormack, James MacPherson, Evan Menzies, and Keith MacRae (UHI), Chris Aldam, Lewis Matheson, Darren Saxton, Chris Bowerman, (all Aberdeen), Padraic Mac Giolla Bhride, Donald Irvine (captain), (all Dundee), Brian Slattery, Elliot Moir, Shane O’Carroll, Robert Walsh (all Robert Gordons)

The North side is captained by Donald Irvine and is expected to all two further players from Dundee University giving 4 players from each University.

South Mens Squad

Grant Irvine, Alan Palmer, David Nicolson, Donald MacDonald, (all Strathclyde), Hamish Myers, Sam Evans, Steven Christison, Malky Wink, (all Edinburgh), James Livingston (captain), John Moir, Gilleasbuig MacDonald, Louis Munro, (all Glasgow), Andrew Mathie, Joe Dunton, Rhorry Gauld (all St Andrews)

The South side is captained by James Livingston.

North Womens Squad

Elaine Cameron, Julia Duncan, plus 3 others tbc (all UHI), Joy Elliot (captain), Louise Harkins, Aisling O’Shea, Jolanta Lundgren, plus 1 tbc, (all Aberdeen), Orla Coughlan, Marian Holohan, Annie Phelan, Claire Hanon, Ashling Hennessy (all Robert Gordons)

Joy Elliot captains the North side.    

South Womens Squad

Aisling Gribbin (captain), Liz Perry, Abbey Pettigrew, Caroline Graham, Fiona Pannell (all St Andrews), Fiona Mathie, Oonagh Collins, Kirsten Munro, Eleanor Fraser (all Strathclyde), Jenny Smith, Hilda Dooley, Catriona Mulkerins, Rebecca Forrester, Eilidh Fraser, (all Edinburgh)

The South side is captained by Aisling Gribbin.  

The ladies match throws up at 11.30am and the mens match throws up at 1pm. 
11 October 2008

The University shinty season starts on Saturday 18 October 2008.

The UHI has entered a team this season which brings the competition up to a respectable 8 teams.

Several Skye Camanachd players will be taking part.

Andrew Banks will be a great addition to the Dundee squad.

Skye Camanachd captain Gilleasbuig MacDonald, John Moir and Ally MacLennan continue to represent Glasgow University.

Strathclyde will have the services of Skye Camanachd’s Alan Palmer, Malcolm Moir and Kinlochshiel’s Calum MacLean. 

Please e-mail any results/scorers to info@skyecamanachd.com or text to 077 485 73710 and we’ll publish them on the website and try to maintain a league table.

University Shinty Fixtures 2008-2009

Sat 18-Oct-2008

St Andrews v Edinburgh

Strathclyde v Dundee

RGU v Aberdeen

UHI v Glasgow

 

Sat 25-Oct-2008

St Andrews v RGU

Edinburgh v Strathclyde

Dundee v Glasgow 

Aberdeen v UHI

 

Sat 01-Nov-2008

Strathclyde v RGU

Aberdeen v St Andrews 

Glasgow v Edinburgh

 

Sat 08-Nov-2008 

Strathclyde v Glasgow

St Andrews v UHI

Aberdeen v Dundee 

 

Sat 15-Nov-2008 

Strathclyde v St Andrews

Glasgow v Aberdeen

RGU v Edinburgh

Dundee v UHI

 

Sat 22-Nov-2008 

RGU v Glasgow

Aberdeen v Strathclyde

Edinburgh v UHI

Dundee v St Andrews

 

Sat 29-Nov-2008 

North VS South

 

Sat 31-Jan-2009 

Shinty / Hurling International

 

Sat 07-Feb-2009  

Glasgow v St Andrews

UHI v Strathclyde 

Edinburgh v Aberdeen

Dundee v RGU 

 

 Sat 14-Feb-2009  

UHI v RGU

Edinburgh v Dundee 

 

Wed 18-Mar-2009  

Littlejohn Vase


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