Blyth Broomball to host annual tournament this weekend in Blyth, Brussels
BY SHAWN LOUGHLIN
This weekend, it’s all about broomball at the Blyth and District and Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centres, as dozens of broomball games will be played as part of Blyth Junior Broomball’s annual tournament in the region.
Action begins with four U12 games on Friday night. First, Blyth Silver plays Palmerston, followed by the Mildmay Hawks taking on the Mildmay Falcons, Keady playing the Mildmay Moose and the Blyth Bullets playing Seaforth.
Next, the Blyth U14 Boys will play Mildmay, followed by games between the Young Guns and Terminators and Twisted Sisters and Typhoons in U20 Girls action and then the Moose and Seaforth and the Renegades and the Flyers in the U20 Boys division.
On Saturday, the Blyth U14 Girls will open play with a game against Mildmay, followed by Seaforth playing Palmerston in the U14 Boys division, Keady playing Palmerston in U9 action, the U12 Blyth Silver team playing the Mildmay Hawks, the U12 Blyth Bullets playing the Mildmay Moose, Palmerston taking on the Mildmay Falcons and Seaforth playing Keady, also in the U12 division.
Keady will play the Mildmay Farmers in U9 action as the morning turns to afternoon, followed by a game between the U14 Girls Mildmay and Palmerston teams.
U12 action continues between Blyth Silver and the Mildmay Falcons, Palmerston and the Mildmay Hawks and the Blyth Bullets and Keady. The Blyth U16 Boys will then play Seaforth, followed by a game between Blyth’s U14 Girls and Palmerston.
The Blyth U16 Girls will play Seaforth and Palmerston will play Kilsyth, also in the U16 Girls division.
The Twisted Sisters will play the Young Guns in U20 Girls action, followed by a U12 game between Seaforth and the Mildmay Moose.
The Typhoons and Terminators will play in U20 Girls action, followed by U16 Girls games between Blyth and Kilsyth and Seaforth and Palmerston and U20 Girls games between the Twisted Sisters and Terminators and the Typhoons and the Young Guns.
On Saturday night, at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, the U14 Blyth Boys will play Palmerston and the U14 Boys Seaforth and Mildmay teams will face off. The U9 Mildmay Roosters will play Seaforth, followed by a U20 Boys game between the Mildmay Moose and the Flyers.
Blyth and Seaforth and Palmerston and Mildmay will then play each other in the U14 Boys division, followed by a game between the Blyth U16 Boys and Seaforth and two U20 Boys games between the Renegades and Mildmay Moose and Seaforth and the Flyers.
On Sunday morning, action continues in Brussels, with the U16 Blyth Boys playing Seaforth, the U9 Seaforth and Blyth teams taking one another on, followed by a game between Palmerston and the Mildmay Roosters, also in the U9 tournament.
Action in Brussels that day will wrap up with the U20 Boys Renegades playing Seaforth.
In Blyth on Sunday morning, the U16 Girls Blyth team will play Palmerston and Seaforth will play Kilsyth, also in the U16 Girls division. Then, at 8:30 a.m. the championship games will begin and run into the early afternoon.