The annual junior hockey awards took place on Friday night at Lurgan Rugby Club. Having been rained off the previous week at Tollymore, the weather couldn’t have been kinder, warm and dry!

Over 150 players and parents turned up to see who had won the awards in each group. At the end of proceedings, Club President Mrs Paula McIlwaine had the honour of presenting a cheque for £1050.00 to Dickie Barr in support of his daughter’s charity fund. Charlene Barr suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, and is currently awaiting a double lung transplant. She courageously set up a charity to raise enough funds to build a school for under privileged children in Uganda. Being too unwell to attend the awards, her father Dickie accepted the cheque on Charlene’s behalf. She has now raised more than the £70,000.00 required and is giving the surplus amount to the local orphanage nearest to her new schools location.

The much anticipated Lurgan Ladies junior hockey tournament was played on Saturday 15th May and was a huge success. Some 330 children from ages 6 to 11 took part in the biggest club run tournament for primary school aged girls in the province.

Brownlow House Lurgan was the venue for the annual Senior Club awards and dinner. Lurgan Ladies celebrated many successes during the 2009 / 2010 season.

Lurgan came off the pitch disappointed to lose this match as the result certainly flattered the Belfast outfit who for long periods were under the cosh as Lurgan dominated but failed to turn that domination into goals.