Right Price Tile Billy Kelly Boys U17 Basketball Tournament
Easter means only one thing on the Irish and Cork Basketball calendar, and it is that time of year again. This year sees the 42nd Edition of the most prestigious Underage Boys Basketball Tournament in Ireland. The popularity of the tournament is growing every year with 32 Teams taking part this year. The Tournament is now so popular that we had a standby list of 11 teams. We will see 8 pools of 4 and when the Pool games are over the top 2 of each pool go on to the last 16 of the Tournament while the bottom 2 in each pool move on to play in the Billy Kelly Plate Final. For the first time ever there will be the first time that an English Team play in the Tournament. Southwark Legends from London coached by ex-Blue Demon Player Ben Honan take their chances alongside the cream of Irish underage Basketball. We have teams from Belfast to Waterford, Kerry to Sligo and the midlands. We are delighted that this year once again we have Right Price Tiles and Wood Flooring on Board as the Main Sponsor, and we would like to thank Chris Dineen for his continued support.
This year will also see an official Billy Kelly Tournament T-shirt go on sale and we hope that this is a hit with attendees. The tournament sees 78 games over 2 days at 3 venues Parochial Hall, Neptune Stadium and MTU Arena. As always would like to thank John Houlihan and the CCBOA for providing officials for this. Titans of Galway are back to defend their title and will be amongst the Favourites this year again. Great to see old friends St. Vincent’s Dublin and Joey Boylan back this year. Cork will be represented by 5 Clubs, Ballincollig, Blue Demons, Mallow, Neptune and Youghal.
John Kelly (registrar Cork County Board) on behalf of sisters and brother once again takes the opportunity to thank the board for continuing to honour their dad in such a special way every year and wished the board a very successful two days.
Willie McCarthy, (Chairperson / Secretary- Cork County Board) looks forward to extending a warm welcome to players, coaches, table officials and supporters to our 42nd tournament and is grateful for the support of Right Price Tiles and the teams in the Parochial Hall, Neptune Stadium and M.T.U. and wished the clubs all the very best.