18/04/04 St. John's Division 2 Hurlers draw level away to McD's

All County Hurling League Division 2 Falls Park

McDermotts 4:09
St. Johns 4:09

St. Johns senior Division 2 Hurlers threw away a glorious opportunity to secure a 100% start to their Division 2 campaign with a draw against mcDermotts in the Park on Sunday.

Despite being 13 points in front at half-time(3:06 to 0:02) and 6 points in front with 4 minutes to go the physically competitive McDermotts took the game to the Johnnies and managed to secure a draw. This was certainly a game that got away and although the strong breeze did dictate a game of two halves a lot of players must be wondering how we didn’t secure all points.

Full credit to the McDees for ‘carving out’ a result for themselves with Chris Turley and Kevin Burns starring. St. Johns had excellent performances from Colin Thompson (Golden Balls & Broken Toe), Colm McFall and the evergreen skilled artist known as Conor McCaffrey or ‘McCaff’ to his friends(2).

Conor trains every day at lunch time at a well known private health club.

St. Johns 1.Conor McCormick 2.Colm Cunningham 3.Anto Brennan 4.Chis Crawford 5.Joe Herald 6.Liam Knocker 7.Neil Kelly 8.Colin Thompson 9.Colm McFall 10.Conor McCaffrey 11.Fergal Collins 12.Brendan Moss 13.Jimmy Peoples 14.Martin McMahon 15. Niall Grego 16 Locky McCurdy for Fergal Collins 17.John-Joe Hartigan for Chris Crawford 18. Simon McCrory for Martin McMahon 19.James Connolly for Conor McCaffrey 20.Conal Maskey for Anto Brennan

St. Johns Scorers; Colm McFall 1:04(1:00 sideline cut,3 frees), Niall Grego 2:02, Jimmy Peoples 0:03 (0:01 free), Martin McMahon 1:00.

Footnote: Well done to Colin Thompson on his speedy recovery of his broken toe which he sustained in the St.Patricks Day debacle. Colin felt aggrieved that no one asked about his big toe. Anyone with any suitable nickname for ‘Golden Balls Broken Toe.’ kindly forward them to the website.

Also we hope Gerardo Hamilton makes a speedy recovery as he goes under the knife for some injury sustained in the service of the’Blue & White.’