04/04/04 St. John's Division 2 Hurlers have good win over Armoy

Sunday 04/04/2004

All County Antrim Div.2 Hurling League.

St. Johns 1:11
Armoy 1:09

St. Johns reserves started the senior Hurling competitive year with a fine 2 point victory over Armoy in Corrigan on Sunday afternoon.

The game was a close affair through out with the Johnnies holding their 2 point half-time lead to the end. This is a very young team with the average age only 19. (Of course if we could take F.Collins (Major) out of the equation the average age would drop to 15.)

Certainly Colm McFall, John-Joe Hartigan and Liam Knocker starred in defence. Joe Herald had a solid game at centre field and up front Niall Grego and Jimmy Peoples took the laurels.

The veteran half forward line of Conor McCaffery, Fergal Collins and Packie Nolan battled for the hour. Conor McCormick was safe in nets and his 100m plus puck-outs were great to watch.

Certainly a lot of players will be breathing down the necks of their Division 1 counterparts.

St. Johns: 1. Conor McCormick 2.Colm McFall 3.Colm Cunningham 4.Chris Crawford 5.Neil Kelly 6.Liam Knocker 7.John-Joe Hartigan 8. John Meade 9.Joe Herald 10.Conor McCaffery 11.Fergal Collins 12.Packie Nolan 13 Niall Grego,14 Andrew McCallin 15.Jimmy Peoples 16.Kevin McKeogh 17. James Connolly 18.David Reynolds 19.Ciaran McCurdy 20.Conal Maskey 21.Adrian Oliver 22.Dermot Hartigan

St. Johns Scorers: Jimmy Peoples 0:06 (0:04 frees), Niall Grego 1:01, Packie Nolan 0:02, Conor Mccaffery 0:01, Fergal Collins 0:01.