We caught up with Ulster Hockey’s U18 Girls Indoor Hockey Tournament on Sunday afternoon at Antrim Forum.

With one team withdrawing, this competition featured five sides; Randalstown HC, Armagh HC, Ballymoney HC, Ards HC and Coleraine HC. The teams each played four 10 minute matches in a round robin format with the top four sides going through to the semifinals and the winners progressing to the final. The results from the round robin stage are shown below.

Round Robin Fixtures	Results
Randalstown v Armagh	1 — 1
Ballymoney v Ards	1 — 1
Ards v Randalstown	2 — 0
Coleraine v Ballymoney	0 — 1
Ards v Coleraine	0 — 0
Armagh v Ballymoney	0 — 1
Coleraine v Randalstown	1 — 0
Armagh v Ards	0 — 2
Randalstown v Ballymoney	0 — 1
Coleraine v Armagh	1 — 1

With the late withdrawal, of one of the teams, the competition was just starting the semi final stages when we arrived back at the Antrim Forum. Unfortunately out friends at Randalstown HC missed out on the top four in the highly competitive group stages and had left by the time we got there.

The first semi final featured 2nd placed Ballymoney against third placed Armagh and as you would expect from the round robin results it was a close game with Ballymoney progressing through to the final on runs after a 2 all draw.

In the second semi final top ranked Ards were turned over by an impressive display from Coleraine with their captain Zara Craig particularly impressive as they ended up with a 2 – 4 win against the much fancied Ards.

Coleraine’s good form, and particularly that of their captain, continued in the final and Craig’s goal was enough to see them lift the trophy with a 1 – 0 win.

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