Six Cyclones Named In Regional Sqaud…

Posted on February 9, 2009 at 10:09 am by Clark Caughey

The Northern Cyclones inline hockey club would like to congratulate six members of the senior squad for being selected to represent the Northern Ireland region at the forthcoming BIPHA Superleague Weekend in Rotherham.

Forwards Clark Caughey, Dave Nicolai and Steven Ewen join defencemen Tony Sinton, who was also named captain, Richard Grace and netminder Brian Morrow in the 22 man squad that will travel to England on the 7th March 2009.

This is the first time that a team from Northern Ireland will have competed in the Superleague. Teams are made up of the best players from each of the BIPHA Regions (Central, North East, North West, South, South West, South Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland) who then compete in a round robin tournament to decide to progresses to the knockout stages of the competition.

The full squad listing is as follows:

Defence
Neil Braid – East Coast Lightning
Stuart Fleck – East Coast Blaze
Richard Grace – Northern Cyclones
Daniel Macklin – East Coast Blaze
Richie Maxwell – East Coast Lightning
Tony Sinton – Northern Cyclones

Forwards
Darren Browne – Amargh Stars
Clark Caughey – Northern Cyclones
Steven Ewen – Northern Cyclones
Kevin Kerr – East Coast Lightning
Simon Laverty – East Coast Blaze
Dave Nicolai – Northern Cyclones
Michael Patrick – East Coast Lightning

Netminders
James Brodie – East Coast Lightning
Brian Morrow – Northern Cyclones