Old Leighlin (33)49

Dooley 17

Kinsella 12

Lynch 7

Carlow Rock (34)67

A. Vaikuls 16

Pauliukenas 12

Urbonavicius 11

Having started well Waterford Vikings had to survive a spirited fightback by Old Leighlin in WIT Arena last night in a game that ended 54 to 53 in favour of the home team. 10 points up after the first quarter, 11 at the halfway stage and 12 at the end of the third, Old Leighlin came back strong in the forth out scoring Vikings 22 points to 11. A three pointer from Pepper and a free throw from Kavanagh had Vikings 4 in front before #11 for the visitors hit a long range 3 to cut the lead to one but the time ran out.

Ryan Pepper 20 points Cian O'Rourke and Daniel Sheehan 8 top scored for the home team.

Kilkenny Stars were always in control in this game winning the quarters 14 to 5, 12 to 4, 12 to 2 and 11 to 3 to give a final winning score of 49 to 15 for Kilkenny Stars. A total of ten separate scorers for Kilkenny Stars with 5 on the score sheet for Old Leighlin.

Scorers – Kilkenny Stars

Ruairi Holland – 12

Edward McDermott – 6

Sean Deely – 6

Edmond Lauhoff – 6

Tadhg Crowley – 5

Aaron Coogan – 4

Conor Murphy – 4

Luke Philips – 2

Harry Cody – 2

Leo Downey – 2

Scorers - Old Leighlin BC

Noel Meany - 4

Niall Carpenter - 4

Shane McDonald - 3

Shane Hanlon - 2

Michael Maher - 2

Carlow Rock(23)43

R. Vaikuls 16, A. Vaikuls11, Rudokas 7

Old Leighlin(15)36

Roche 11, Dooley 6, Darcy5

Wildcats

ardianna Shelley 8point

Grace o Brien 7 points

Maria Lori 6 points

Old Leighton

Siofra o Neill 9 points

Chloe Doyle 4 points

Regan wall 3 points

Carlow rock 79(36)

A. Vaikuls 43

M.Rudokas 12

R. Vaikuls 8

Old Leighlin 50(25)

M. Bambrick 26

O'Neill 9

M. Darcy 6

Waterford Vikings 55 Old Leighlin 41

While 14 points looks like a comfortable win it was anything but, 16 to 6 down at the end of the first quarter it was difficult to see when the home side were going to wake up to the fact that they were in a game. A couple of three pointers from the teams top scorer Hubert coupled with an improvement in team defence saw the gap decrease to 3 by the half 19 to 22.

The third quarter went score for score Vikings shading it by a single point Old Leighlin going into the final period 36 to 34 in front. Little changed during the first five minutes of the final quarter and then with Sheehan and O'Rourke getting on the end of a few fast breaks and Hubert hitting three 3 pointers in a row the game was over. Hubert with 29 Sheehan 12 and O'Rourke 8 were Vikings leading scorers while Martin 12, Brendan 10 and Thomas 9 were best for the visitors.

Carlow Rock 77(36)

Armands Vaikuls 18

Linas Jusaitis 15

Rolands Vaikuls 12

Old Leighlin 40(23)

Bambrik 12

S. Kinsella 9

B. Kinsella 9

Club Amber continued their good start to the season with a hard fought win over Old Leighlin in O'Loughlins Last Night.

Old Leighlin started the better of the 2 teams with young Mickey Bambrick in flying form scoring 10 points to Amber's 5 in the opening minutes of the game. Leighlin continued their good start and picked up a few more good baskets to lead by 7 at the end of the quarter 11-18.

Due to Old Leighlin's good start to the game Amber switched to a man defence to try and stifle the oppositions perimeter scoring, the ply seemed to be effective as Amber limited Leighlin to just 6 points in the quarter and trail by just 2 points at the half 22-24.

In the 3rd quarter Amber's good defence continued all the while picking up some good baskets offensively to lead by 3 points going into the last quarter 39-36.

Old Leighlin started the last quarter very well and took the lead again early on in the quarter however as Amber teams seem to always do when games are close, they dug deep and with 7 points from the free trow line retook the lead and controlled the closing minutes of the game to take the win on a final score of 51-48

Top Scorers:

Club Amber: Aoghan Courtney 19, Philip Brennan 14, Chunky O' Brien 6

Old Leighlin: Mickey Bambrick 26, Brendan Kinsella 14