Deerpark's Fleming plays part in Irish team retaining European Team Championship title
Those wins meant Ireland went into a Championship group with the other two group winners, Catalonia and Great Britain, as Fleming partnered with Limerick's Kieran Earls in the Doubles. They defeated Catalan pair Marc Lloret and Alex Albinana 4&3 with the Killarney man subsequently beating Lloret 4&3 in the Singles match. Ireland had a 8-1 win overall against the Catalans as victory in Sunday morning's game against Great Britain would assure them of the title.
It was flawless in Ireland winning 9-0 as Fleming combined with Earls again for a 2&1 win over Liam Malone & Steve Deeble in the Doubles as Fleming then had a 3&2 win over John Deeble in the Singles to complete his tournament.
The win follows on from Fleming's Irish World Cup win last autumn as the specific win last weekend was 20 years after Fleming's Deerpark club-mate Derry McCarthy captained Ireland to victory in this event in Holland.
Elsewhere, last Saturday at the Ardnacrusha Scratch Cup saw Deerpark's Eileen McCarthy (Gross) and Tralee's Charlotte Blake (Nett) win the two Ladies prizes in the competition.
Closer to home the County U16 Boys Strokeplay Championships took place on Tuesday last in Tralee with the overall title requiring a nine-hole play-off to decide the outcome after both Deerpark's Fionn McMonagle and Tralee's Tommy Murray tied on 116. McMonagle was victorious by five shots in the extra holes in claiming the overall title from Murray as the 13-15 section was dominated by Listowel with Ruairi Turbinski winning by four shots from his club-mate Mason Sheehy Elston on a score of 119.
The 8-12 section was won by Deerpark's Aodhan O'Halloran meanwhile on 118 with Joey Blake from the host club second on 127.
The County Strokeplay was also the event that saw confirmation of the three Kerry teams that will represent the county in the Munster U16 Singles & Inter-County Championships in Crosshaven in Cork this Saturday.
Gold team: Aodhan O'Halloran (Deerpark), Fionn McMonagle (Deerpark), Mason Sheehy Elston (Listowel), Thomas Keane (Listowel)
Green team: Fionn O'Callaghan (Deerpark), Tommy Daly (Listowel), Thomas O'Sullivan (Deerpark), Diarmuid Lyons (Listowel)
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White team: Daniel Quinlan (Deerpark), Sean Stack (Listowel), Ruairi Turbinski (Listowel), Joey Blake (Tralee)
Meanwhile, this Friday sees the National Strokeplay Qualifiers take place in Tralee as they have been brought forward in order to avoid a clash with the All-Ireland Football Final on Sunday.
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