FOUR BANN PLAYERS TO REPRESENT IRELAND IN SAN DIEGO
Congratulations to Drew Carlisle, Stephen Dowds, Eugene Magee & Bruce McCandless all selected for the 18 man Irish squad travelling to the World League 2 tournament in San Diego later this month. To have 4 players from BHC in this squad is a great achievement.
The announcement comes on the back of a warm weather training camp last week which saw the Green Machine pitted against the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa 6 times in 8 days.
Ireland will travel to San Diego on Friday February 20th 2015 ahead of their opening encounter with Chile on Friday 28th February 2015 before facing Austria the following day. The Green Machine will face Italy on Tuesday March 3rd before the Quarter Final stages on Thursday 5th of March. The semi-finals and finals take place on Saturday 7th March and Sunday 8th respectively. Ireland will be the second highest ranked team in the competition and need to finish in the top 3 to progress to World League 3.
The teams’ final preparation for World League 2 comes in the form of France. The men will play 3 matches against France on February 10th, 12th and 13th at 7pm in Three Rock Rovers.
Coach Craig Fulton said ‘The recent training camp in South Africa formed the basis for World league 2 selection given the training sessions and six quality Test matches we played. The depth in the Irish National squad is very healthy so selection is always very difficult. The 18 selected for WL2 will also play against France next week in Dublin as we continue preparations for San Diego.’
World League 2 Squad
Jonathan Bell – Lisnagarvey
Drew Carlisle – Banbridge
Chris Cargo – Racing
Peter Caruth – Monkstown
Mitch Darling – Three Rock
Stephen Dowds – Banbridge
David Fitzgerald – Monkstown
Paul Gleghorne – Instonians
Ronan Gormley – Krefeld
David Harte – Kampong
Conor Harte – Racing
John Jackson – Reading
Eugene Magee – Banbridge
Bruce McCandless – Banbridge
Shane O Donoghue – Dragons
Kirk Shimmins – UCD
Alan Sothern – Racing
Michael Watt – Surbiton
Non Travelling reserves
Jonny Bruton – Three Rock Rovers
Neal Glassey – Mossley
Kyle Good – Dragons
Mark Ingram – Pembroke Wanderers
James Lorimer – Lisnagarvey
Michael Robson – Annadale