NUI Maynooth’s Gary Hurley was edged out by team mate Declan Loftus at Carton House. Picture by Pat CashmanDeclan Loftus shot a two-under 70 to edge out Irish Intervarsity champion Gary Hurley on the back nine and give NUI Maynooth one-two in the Men’s Intervarsity Series on the Montgomerie Course at Carton House.

Both finished a shot ahead of 2007 West of Ireland champion Joe Lyons, now a mature student at NUI Galway, who came home in 32 for a one-under 71.

In the ladies competition, Paula Grant of the University of Ulster shot an impressive 76 to take the spoils by two shots from DCU’s Carla Reynolds.

Intervarsity Series - Carton House (Montgomerie Course, Par 72)

Men

70 D Loftus (NUIM), G Hurley (NUIM)

71 J Lyons (NUIG)

72 D Byrne (NUIG), S Guilfoyle (NUIM), J Hickey (Cork IT)

73 R Gribben (Ulster), C O’Rourke (NUIM), L Harnett (UCD), E O’Donovan (NUIM), J Pierse (UCD)

74 M McClean (Ulster), A Lowry (NUIM), J Roche (NUIM)

76 C Rafferty (DKIT)

77 D Whitty (WIT), C Slevin (NUIM), D Coghlan (TCD), D McDonough (NUIG), R Carvill (Ulster), J Robinson (Ulster), S McCarthy (NUIM), H McHugh (TCD)

78 R McKinstry (QUB), J Conroy (UCD), S Kinch (NUIM), R Moore (UCD), J Kelly (UCD), T McLarnon (Ulster), M Morrissey (IT Sligo), B Murray (UCC)

79 M Wylie (Ulster), S Boles (Ulster), G Finnegan (IT Sligo), E Cradock (NUIG), J Ryan (UCD), R O’Dwyer (NUIM)

80 J Lindsay (Ulster), A Gleeson (UCD), R O’Sullivan (Cork IT), J Neiland (UCD), E Higgins (Cork IT), D Reidy (IT Sligo), S O’Connor (NUIM)

81 S Clarke (Ulster), B Lane (Cork IT), K Lynch (NUIM)

82 J McCarthy (UCD), G MacNamara (NUIM), P Cullen (DKIT), E Harris (Cork IT)

84 P Crawley (DCU)

85 S Devey (TCD), G Shaw (NUIM), P Schmidt (DCU)

86 B Cafferty (IT Sligo), D Manifold (UCD)

Ladies

76 P Grant (Ulster)

78 C Reynolds (DCU)

80 K Coey (Ulster)

81 J Sykes (NUIM)

82 J Boal (Ulster), S Sexton (NUIM)

83 L McCarthy (UCC)

84 J Coyne (UCC)

85 R Brady (Ulster)

87 A Farrell (DCU)

88 J O’Driscoll (UCC), C Murphy (DCU)

90 E McGuinness (NUIM)

96 L Fekkes (Ulster)

98 E Coyne (UCC)