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St Paul’s and Scotts Lakers to host Panthers on Saturday
Women’s Super League
Utility Trust St Paul’s v Portlaoise Panthers
Saturday 3.30pm
Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre
Men's National League Division One
Scotts Lakers v Portlaoise Panthers
Saturday 7.30pm
Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre
After last weekend’s 20-point victory over the Galway Mystics, St Paul’s will be looking to build momentum in the Women’s Super League when they welcome the Portlaoise Panthers to Killarney tomorrow (Saturday).
With Megan Ormiston, Gracen Kerr and Mathilde Diop to the fore, ably assisted by Simone O’Shea and Rheanne O’Shea, James Fleming’s team were too strong for the Mystics, eventually running out 85-65 winners.
That was their second win of the season and they will be going all out to pick up W number three in front of their home fans on Saturday.
The match forms part of a double header as the men’s team, the Scotts Lakers, also take on the Panthers later that evening.
The Lakers will move into joint first position in the National League – at least temporarily - if they can see off the challenge of a Portlaoise side who are also flying high.
The Lakers are currently in a tie for second after securing four consecutive wins; a fifth victory on the bounce would bring them level with the leaders, the Limerick Celtics, on 21 points. The Celtics, who have won all seven of their games so far, are in action on Sunday against Moy Tolka Rovers.
The Panthers have enjoyed a perfect start to their season too, winning six matches out of six with Eric Anderson and Xabier Arriaga leading the way in the scoring stakes. The men from the midlands also hold the league’s second-best defensive record up to this point. The only team to boast a meaner defence? Scotts Lakers.
It certainly makes for an intriguing encounter and a large crowd is anticipated at Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre on Saturday.
Coach Ron Howard will be hoping for more of the same from his side following last weekend’s impressive 84-77 home win against Moycullen.
The hosts will no doubt be looking to Mikah Blackwell and Darnell Snyers to do the bulk of the scoring with the likes of Jack O’Sullivan, Eoin Carroll, Abdul Oladipupo, Rui Saraiva and Jamie O’Sullivan also hoping to play their part.
Elsewhere in Division One, the Killarney Cougars are away to the Carrick Cruisers on Saturday night.
Two young local girls showed great business initiative on Saturday ahead of the Kerry v Donegal match at Fitzgerald Stadium.
Erin McSweeney and Jessie Doolin set up a sweet stall outside a house on Lewis Road, catching the thousands of football fans walking towards the grounds.
The enterprising pair did a busy trade selling soft drinks, sweets, and chocolates to the passing crowds before throw-in.
Their match-day venture also caught the attention of the national sports media, with a photograph of the girls at their stall captured by Sportsfile photographer Stephen McCarthy ahead of the game.
Noel O’Neill has claimed first place in the Unrestricted category of the latest Killarney Camera Club competition, which focused on the theme of the ‘Kerry Landscape’.
His winning photograph, titled ‘Conor Pass Lake and the Three Sisters’, features a detailed study of Mullaghveal located beneath the Conor Pass.
The image captures the wide sweep of the valley, utilizing an elevated viewpoint that allows the glacial landscape to unfold toward the Atlantic horizon. The composition highlights the quiet lakes in the foreground against the dark, rocky slopes of the valley, with the distant outline of the Three Sisters adding further depth and scale to the scene.
The judges praised the photograph as an outstanding example of landscape work, noting its effective balance of composition, light, and perspective to capture the vastness of the West Kerry terrain.
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