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Irish Post
10-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Post
Birmingham's Sean McDermott's triumph in the All Britain GAA Homegrown Championships
SEVEN teams took part in this year's All Britain GAA Home Grown Championship played at Páirc na hÉireann in Solihull. Playing for the championship Shield, Coventry's Roger Casements beat Birmingham's John Mitchel's 3-09 - 1-04. The Championship Cup, an all Birmingham, final ended Sean McDermott's 3-8 to St Brendan's 0-05. Sean McDermott's 2025 All Britain Home Grown Cup Champions (Pics: Chris Egan) John F Kennedy's GAA Leeds took the Championship plate back with them to Yorkshire. Scroll down for more pictures from the tournament... Coventry's St Finbarr's v John F. Kennedy's GAA Leeds Sean McDermott's in action against St Brendans in the Homegrown Cup Final Roger Casements in action against John Mitchel's in the Shield Final Naomh Padraig GAA Leicester v Coventry's St Finbarr's Home Grown Team Captains come together alongside the silverware Birmingham's St Brendans v John F Kennedy's GAA Leeds All Britain Home Grown Shield Winners, Coventry's Roger Casements
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Lionel Messi scores twice, Inter Miami beats LAFC in Champions Cup quarterfinal
Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi reacts during a CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal win over LAFC on Wednesday at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Photo by Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA-EFE April 10 (UPI) -- Lionel Messi scored twice and assisted another goal to lead Inter Miami to a gritty win over LAFC in a CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Argentine soccer sensation found the net in each half of the 3-1 triumph Wednesday at Chase Stadium. Defender Noah Allen also scored for the Herons. Advertisement "We had to come back," Herons manager Javier Mascherano told reporters. "It's never easy in futbol when you have to come back." The Herons outshot the Black and Gold 21-13, but hit just nine of their attempts on target, compared to eight for their MLS counterparts. They also held a 526-341 advantage in passes. The game featured consistent physicality, with LAFC defenders often sending Messi to the ground and blocking an assault of shot attempts. The Black and Gold took the lead on the Herons in the 9th minute when center back Aaron Long beat Herons goalie Oscar Ustari for first blood. Striker Nathan Ordaz assisted that score. Advertisement Winger Marco Delgado sparked the score when responded to an Ustari clear out with a quick pass back into a crowded box. Ordaz brought the ball down. It then bounced and came to the boot of Long, who blasted a volley past Ustari. Messi appeared to net an equalizer on a 31st-minute free kick. He sneakily went up to the spot and delivered a quick attempt, bending a left-to-right shot from 30 yards out. The ball bounced in the box and found left corner behind goalie Hugo Lloris before the defense could set up. The goal was then waved off, keeping the Herons scoreless. But Messi would find the net again just minutes later, smashing in a 20-yard shot to beat Lloris and making the score 1-1. Herons striker Luis Suarez hit Messi with a pass just above the box during that sequence. Messi then tapped the ball inside and drilled a left-footed shot into the right side of the net. Advertisement Messi earned his assist by finding Allen above the box in the 61st minute. Allen then hit a chip into the box, which drifted over the head of midfielder Federico Redondo and bounced into the net. The Herons had another goal waved off in the 67th minute because of an offside call on Suarez. Ustari continued to deny the Black and Gold for the remainder of the match. Messi eventually provided some insurance with an 84th minute penalty kick. That score was prompted when LAFC center back Marlon Santos committed a handball infraction during a Herons corner kick. Messi calmly jogged to the spot and lifted a strike into the right side of the goal for the Herons' final score. The Herons will take on the Chicago Fire in an MLS matchup at 4:30 p.m. EDT Sunday in Chicago. They will meet the Vancouver Whitecaps later this month in a Championship Cup semifinal. The winner of the two-leg matchup will meet Tigres or Cruz Azul in the June 1 finale.
BBC News
06-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Northampton's Mapu banned for dangerous tackle
Northampton Saints prop Iakopo Mapu has been given a three-week ban following his sending off against Ealing Trailfinders in the Premiership Rugby Samoa international, who joined Saints in November, was shown the red card by referee Sara Cox for a dangerous 41st-minute tackle on Ealing hooker Mike will definitely miss the Premiership games against Leicester Tigers and Sale Sharks on 21 and 28 the suspension will be reduced to two weeks if he completes the World Rugby Coaching Intervention Programme (CIP) course, allowing him to be available for the Championship Cup clash with French side Clermont on 4 could have received a six-week ban but a disciplinary panel decided it had been a "mid-range" lost 43-26 to Championship side Ealing, costing them a place in the PRC must now focus on Europe and trying to improve their position of eighth in the Premiership, having won a first title for a decade last following the Ealing defeat, director of rugby Phil Dowson said his side had been dominated from start to finish and would now face intensive training ahead of the East Midlands derby against Leicester."There was a lack of everything - lack of intensity, lack of urgency, a lack of skill levels, a lack of decision making, a lack of leadership. It was just flat," he told BBC Radio Northampton."We're going to train very hard. We're going to work on our game and we're going to work on how we apply ourselves, before, during and after games and make sure the opportunity we missed isn't repeated in the run-in of the season."
