Shock away defeat for Moycullen against the league’s basement team

Alison Blaney (right), who created history with Maree's Women's Super League side on Saturday when she hit their 1,000th point of this season's campaign.

placeholder image — Alison Blaney (right), who created history with Maree's Women's Super League side on Saturday when she hit their 1,000th point of this season's campaign.

THE Corrandulla Sports Centre continues to be a happy hunting ground for teams from Maree Basketball Club, as both the men’s and women’s Super league sides recorded wins there on Saturday to extend a record of no Maree team from any grade every losing a game at the venue.

The games were moved to Corrandulla as the hall at Calasanctius College is being used for the Mock Leaving Cert exams, and it saw Maree’s men take a step closer to safety with a 12-point win over Eanna from Dublin; while the women’s side continue to press for league honours after a 35-point dismantling of Waterford Wildcats.

There was disappointment, however, for Moycullen in the Men’s Super League, as they fell to a shock defeat away to Dublin Lions, a side that headed into the weekend looking for a first win of the season.

The win leaves them second-last in the league, three points behind Maree, DCU Saints, and Killester, but with an inferior head-to-head record against both Maree (losing both games) and DCU Saints (winning one game by 13 points, but losing the other by 23).

WOMEN’S SUPER LEAGUE

Maree 87

Wildcats 52

Alison Blaney made history for Maree for the second successive season on Saturday as her side thrashed Wildcats by 35 points in Corrandulla to leave them second in the table with just four games remaining.

Blaney hit the side’s 1,000th point in the Women’s Division 1 last season; and when she made it 26-9 to Maree near the end of the first quarter on Saturday, she had also scored the team’s 1,000th point in the Super League.

Maree were in control from the tip on Saturday, hitting Wildcats with 15 unanswered points in that opening quarter, before the sides traded 11 points apiece to leave Maree 26-11 ahead at the end of the first 10 minutes.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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