Elite pace too hot for Pole-axed Glenanne

Glenanne lost their third game in the European Hockey Club Championship in Bloemendaal, Holland, yesterday when they were beaten 5-1 by Polish army side Grunwald. But the Dubliners will be coming home with one trophy as David O'Malley (11), from Scoil Ard Mhuire in Tallaght, won the Year of Youth skills competition on Saturday, writes Dermot Ashmore.

Stephen Butler provided a crumb of consolation for Glenanne in replying from a short corner in the final minute.

This morning, Glenanne (fourth in Pool A) face Western from Glasgow (third in Pool B) at 8 a.m. in the first of the relegation play-offs. A win would yield survival for Ireland's representatives (Pembroke Wanderers) in next year's A division.

Harvesthuder of Hamburg will meet Bloemendaal in this afternoon's final.

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Basketball: The Irish senior men were beaten 58-67 by Switzerland in Geneva on Saturday night in the first of three European Championship qualifiers, writes Ian O'Riordan.

Problems started early for the Irish with key player Dan Callahan suffering a cruciate knee injury in the opening minute, which rules him out of Ireland's games against Finland and Iceland at the National Basketball Arena this week.

Top scorers for the Irish were Tim Kennedy (14) and Jay Larranaga (13).

Rowing: Metro regatta was scheduled as the big event of the weekend, but the looming shadow of the Seville World Cup and Henley were obvious, with too many crews scratching, writes Liam Gorman. The Ireland team for Seville was chosen yesterday and the interesting prospect of an Irish heavyweight eight or quadruple scull emerged in the margins of Metro at Blessington.

Tony O'Connor and Gearoid Towey booked their places for Seville in two week's time in the lightweight pairs trial in Iniscarra on Saturday: they had 12 seconds to spare over Noel Monahan and Paul Griffin in an early race and nine over Niall O'Toole and James LyndsayFinn (who were third in the morning) in the evening race. A lightweight four of Brian Young, Eugene Coakley, Monahan and Griffin will join O'Connor and Towey and a lightweight double of Owen and Neal Byrne in Seville.

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