Bandon bidding to salvage season

Bandon will need another big effort as they bid to salvage their season with qualification for the EY Hockey League for the first time.

Denis Pritchard’s side have been nearly men on more occasions than they would have liked in the past few seasons. They’ve lost the last three Irish Hockey Trophy finals, had leads overhauled in a pair of Peard Cup deciders, and last weekend lost the Munster Division 1 title thanks to a pair of one-goal defeats to UCC inside eight days.

Motivation thus won’t be lacking for the West Cork men, who are in Rathdown, Dublin, taking on Corinthians, Belfast Harlequins, and Clontarf over the week-end, with the top two advancing to the knockout stages.