15/05/04 Juvenile April/May Round-up
24/04/04 U-12
Hurlers on the March!
Thurles Og, Tipperary 3:09
St.Johns, Antrim 3:11
St. Johns U-12 Hurlers had a superb win over Tipperary
hot shots Thurles Og in Thurles on Saturday. Trailing
by 7 points these magnificent Johnnies came back for a
superb victory in an excellent game of Hurling. Declan
Creggan, Conor Gallagher & Ciaran Johnston were the
stars for the Johnnies.
25/04/04 U-12
Hurlers on the March again!
St. Lachtains, Kilkenny 2:02
St.Johns, Antrim 5:10
St. Johns U-12 Hurlers finished their trip to Leinster
& Munster with a fine win over North Kilkenny club
St.Lachtains. Certainly another excellent team performance
by this very capable and gifted U-12 team. Tierney, Garland
& Johnston were on fire in this one for the Antrim
men.
26/04/04 South
Antrim U-12 Hurling League Division 1
Gort na Mona 0:00
St.Johns 12:15
St. Johns U-12 Hurlers continued their fine form in the
South Antrim U-12 league.
29/04/04 South
Antrim U-16 Football League Round 3 (Woodlands)
St. Agnes’s - DID NOT FIELD
St. Johns -
For the 2nd time in a month St.Agnes’s did not field
at U-16 level against St.Johns.
Collie McKnight, his 5 mentors and 21 players arrived
at Woodlands to be informed that the game was off and
points forfeited
02/05/04 South
Antrim U-16 Hurling League Division 1 (Corrigan Park)
St. Johns 0:02
Ballycran 3:14
St. Johns U-16 Hurlers came up against an excellent Ballycran
outfit in the South Antrim league on Sunday. The first
half was reasonably competitive with the ‘Cran’
taking a half-time lead of 2:01 to 0:01 with St.Johns
conceding two very soft goals.
But the second half saw Ballycran take complete control
of the game with their superior strength and above all
Hurling ability coming to dominant a tame second half.
Certainly on this performance, this superb Ballycran team
will produce a host of senior talent for Ballycran, Down
and Ulster in years to come.
St.Johns were best served by Peter McGarrity, James Darragh
, Aodh Hamilton, Colm McCrudden and Marty Elliott.
St. Johns:
1.Ciaran McKissock, 2 Aodh Hamilton 3.Colm McCrudden 4.Marty
Elliott 5.Anthony Moore 6. Peter McGarrity 7.James Darragh
8.Aodhan Mulholland 9 Brian Holmes (0:01)10 David McGarrity
11.Eoghan Caldwell 12.Tomas Shannon 13.James McGibbon
14.Barry McFall (0:01)15. Pat Gregory
Substitutes: 16.Sean
McDaniel 25mins 17.Michael Flannery 35mins 18.Aaron McKenna
36mins 13. James McGibbon 52mins. 19 Stephen Corner, 20.Gerard
Carberry, 21 Michael Loughran, 22 Brendan McGibbon 23
Declan McVeigh 24 .Sean-Paul Wright
Referee:
Brendan McGibbon (Senior)
05/05/2004
All County Minor Hurling League Div 1 Round 4 (Corrigan
Park)
St. Johns 3:15
St. Galls 0:02
Joe McCallin’s St. Johns Minor Hurlers continued
their impressive steady progress in the minor Hurling
league with their 4th win in a row in the league this
time against St.Galls in a cold and damp Corrigan Park
on Wednesday evening. Playing without several major players,
missing mainly through injury and suspension the young
Johnnies controlled this pedestrian game from start to
finish going in at half-time 1:05 to 0:02 in front before
romping home in the second period.
St. Galls goal minder Brendan Earley and full-back had
a good hour as did the skilful Sean O’Hara. For St.Johns
Maskey, McCann & McCrudden were steady in defence
and McStein, Peoples and Fearon showed up well in attack
and Simon McCrory again impressive at centre field.
St. Galls: 1.Brendan
Earley 2.Sean Simpson 3.Patrick Flanaghan 4.Tiernan Kennedy
5.Sean Curran 6.Michael McNeill 7.Sean O’Hara 8.Gareth
Brennan 9.Mark Kelly 10.Eamon McArdle 11.Stephen McCann
12.Stephen McDonagh 13.Damian McDonagh 14.Anton McCaffrey
15.Fintan Wilson
St. Galls Scorers:
Sean O’Hara 0:02(0:01 free)
St. Johns:
1.Paul Gribbin, 2.Kevin Kennedy 3.Dermot Hartigan 4.Colm
McCrudden 5.Gerard McCann 6.Liam Knocker 7.Conal Maskey
8.Colm McFall 9.Simon McCrory 10.Jimmy Peoples 11.Tony
Fearon 12.Barry McFall 13.Sean Rooney 14.Conor McStein
15 Fionntan McKillop
Substitutes:
16.Eoghan Caldwell 12 mins for Sean Rooney (Injury : blow
to cheekbone) 17.Brian Holmes 42mins for Barry McFall
18.Marty Elliott 42 mins for Gerard McCann 19.Tomas Shannon
42 mins for Fionntan McKillop 20.Ciaran McKissock 44 mins
for Paul Gribbin
St. Johns Scorers:
Conor McStein 1:01, Barry McFall 1:01, Fionntan McKillop
1:01, Simon McCrory 0:03, Colm McFall 0:03(0:01 free),
Jimmy Peoples 0:03(0:01 free), Conal Maskey 0:02, Gerard
McCann 0:01
Manager: Joe McCallin Assistant
Manager: Colm McFall
Mentors: Robbie McConnell,
Paddy Morgan
First Aid: Robbie McConnell
(Junior)
Groundsman: Thomas Doyle
Attendance: 38
Colour of grass: Green
Referee: Sean Prenter (Davitts)
Booked: NONE
Sent off: NONE
05/05/04
Feile na Gael preliminary round (Corrigan Park)
St. Johns 4:08
St.Teresas 2:01
St. Johns U-14 Hurlers had a good win over St.Teresas
in the Feile na Gael preliminary round on Wednesday night.
Full forward Sean Lawell(son of the famous ‘Juggler’….Minor
hurler champion in 1981. ) had an excellent game as did
Gerard Carberry, David McGarrity, Declan Creggan: &
Conal McGlade.
St. Johns: 1.Ciaran
Conlon, 2.Adrian Downey 3.Colin Fegan 4.Padraig McComb
5. Christopher Rice 6.David McGarrity 7.Daire Maskey 8.Brendan
McGibbon 9.Pearce Donnelly 10.Stephen Corner 11.Gerard
Carberry 12. Conal McGlade 13.Christopher Rooney 14.Sean
Lawell 15 Sean Clarke
Substitutes: 16.Joe
Garland 17. Stephen Tierney 18.Kevin Holland 19.Declan
Creggan 20 Ben McAllister 21 Michael Marley 22 Patrick
O’Hare
St.Johns Scorers: Sean
Lawell 2:01, Declan Creggan 2:00, David McGarrity 0:03(3
frees),Gerard Carberry 0:02 (0:02 frees), Sean Clarke
0:01, Joe Garland 0:01.
06/05/04 U-16
South Antrim Football League (Poleglass Pitch)
St. Johns 1:07
Davitts 5:08
St. Johns U-16 footballers fell to a physically strong
Davitts side in the league on Thursday evening. Trailing
0:02 to 0:01 after 25 minutes , disaster struck with two
soft goals being conceded on 28 & 29 minutes to leave
Davitts with a 2:01 to 0:01 half-time lead. St.Johns had
hit the Davitts cross bar twice in the first half and
had squandered 4 pointable frees and this ultimately was
to cost them extremely dearly.
The second half saw the Davitts men increase their lead
and ultimately run out as comfortable 13 point winners.
Aodh Hamilton, Eoghan Caldwell, Kevin Cunningham, Paul
Downey, Conor Kearney and Brian Neeson had good games
for the Johnnies.
St. Johns:
1.Ciaran Lavery 2.Aodh Hamilton 3.James Darragh 4.Conor
Kearney 5.Anthony Moore 6.Kevin Cunningham 7.Paul Downey
8.Eoghan Caldwell 9.Gary Stone 10.Brian Neeson 11.Declan
McVeigh 12.Brian Holmes 13.Michael Flannery 14.Colm McCrudden
15.Ciaran McKissock
Substitutes: 16.Sean-Paul
Wright 26mins, 17 James McGibbon 42mins, 18.Thomas McDonagh
42mins 19 Anton Stone 42mins.
St. Johns scorers:
Brian Neeson 1:03(0:03 frees), Anthony Moore 0:01, Eoghan
Caldwell 0:01, Declan McVeigh 0:01, Pat Gregory 0:01
08/05/04 Under
16 Select versus St. Ciaran's Kilkenny (Corrigan Park)
St. Johns, Antrim U-16 Select 4:10
St. Ciarans College, Kilkenny 4:05
St.Ciarans College , Kilkenny travelled to Belfast over
the weekend as guests of La Salle College and part of
their itinerary was a challenge game against a St. Johns
U-16 select missing 8 players due to U-16 County commitments,
work, travel and injury.
The young Kilkenny lads certainly made for an exciting
close encounter and it was only with the arrival of the
St.Johns absent U-16 County players that the Johnnies
managed to secure victory in this pleasant sporting encounter.
Chris Cummins, Brian McPartland, Joe Walsh, Oisin Daly,
Philip Healy, PJ Delaney, Paul Barrett ,Rick Laden and
David Walton all had a good hour for St.Ciarans.
While Sean McDaniel, Aodh Hamilton, Colm McCrudden, Pat
Gregory, James Darragh, Anthony Moore and late arrivals
Eoghan Caldwell, Aodhan Mulholland and Marty Elliott did
the business for the Antrim men.
St. Johns: 1.Brendan
McGibbon (13)2. Gerard Carberry (13)3.Colm McCrudden(15)
4 Sean McDaniel(14) 5.Aodh Hamilton(16), 6.Anthony Moore(15),
7.James Darragh (15)8.Fionntain McKillop(16), 9.Tomas
Shannon(15), 10.Pat Gregory (15)11.Aaron McKenna(16) ,
12.Jamesey McGibbon(15) 13.Michael Loughran(16), 14.Conor
McStein(16) 15.Michael Flannery(14)
Substitutes: All
Used :16. Colin Fegan(13) 17.Eoghan Caldwell(15), 18.Aodhan
Mulholland (15),19 Marty Elliott (15),20. Barry McFall
(16).21Peter McGarrity (16) 22.Tony Fearon (16)
St. Johns Scorers:
Pat Gregory 1:02, Eoghan Caldwell 0:04, Fionntain
McKillop 0:03, Aodhan Mulholland: 1:00, Michael Loughran
1:00, Jamesey McGibbon 0:01, Peter McGarrity 1:00.
St. Ciarans College
Kilkenny (Club in brackets) 1.Justin Dermody(Graigue
Ballycallan), 2.Eoin Curtain(James Stephens), 3.Oisin
Daly (Danesfort), 4.Chris Cummins(O’Loughlin Gaels)
5.Brian McPartland(O’Loughlin Gaels), 6 Joe Walsh(O’Loughlin
Gaels) 7.Paul Harrison (Graigue Ballycallan) 8.Philip
Healy (Graigue Ballycallan),9.PJ Delaney (Graigue Ballycallan),10.
Paul Barrett (Dicksboro), 11.Rick Laden (O’Loughlin
Gaels), 12.David Walton (James Stephens), 13.Conor O’Farrell
(Carrickshock), 14.Brian Cooper (O’Loughlin Gaels).
15.Martin Gribbons (O’Loughlin Gaels)
Sustitutes: 16.
Peter Dore (Dicksboro), 17.Luke Casey (Dicksboro),18.James
Dunean (Danesfort), 19.Michael Kelaher (Balnamuck)
St. Ciarans Scorers:
Brian McPartland 2:00, David Walton 1:02, Rick Laden 0:03,
Paul Barrett 1:00
08/05/04 South
Antrim Feile na Gael Quarter Final (Corrigan Park)
St. Johns U-14 Hurlers bowed out of this years Feile
na Gael County Championship after losing to Gort na Mona
after extra time. Hard luck lads especially after this
momentous effort and all the best to the Gorts in the
next round.
09/05/04 South
Antrim U-16 Hurling League Division 1 (Bear Pit)
Sarsfields 3:03 (12)
St. Johns 2:09 (15)
St. Johns U-16’s in their second club game in 19
hours managed to defeat a more interested Sarsfields team
in the south Antrim U-16 league on Sunday morning. Going
in at the interval 1:08 to 1:01 in front after playing
against the breeze the expected flurry of scores from
St.Johns did not materialise in the second half as Sarsfields
clawed back a few scores.
Certainly Conor Donnelly’s first half goal for Sarsfields
was a curious one when he found himself through on a one
on one tussell with St.Johns goal minder Ciaran McKissock.
He managed to kick the sliotar from 25 yards out on the
ground to the Johnnies net. Certainly one of the longest
kicks to the net ever recorded in Hurling.!!
Eamon Kelly’s goal from a 80m free early in the
second half gave Sarsields hope but the Johnnies managed
to maintain their lead when threatened.
Caldwell, Moore, McCrudden, Darragh, Shannon, McGibbon
& Mulholland were best for St. Johns while ‘The
Lion’ Kelly, Maguire, Caldwell, McStravick and Hill
were best for Sarsfields.
Sarsfields: 1.Paul
McStravick 2. Sean Tracey 3.Christopher Shortt 4.Gerard
McKernan 5.Stephen Bolton 6.Eamon Kelly 7.Stephen Maguire
8.Mark Molloy 9.Matthew McVeigh 10.Caillin Caldwell 11.Pearse
Cusack 12.Stephen Hill 13.Jack McGarry 14.Conor Donnelly
15.Ciaran Laverty
Substitutes:
16.R.Deeds for Jack McGarry 42mins
Sarsfields Scorers:
Eamon Kelly 1:01 (1;01 frees), Conor Donnelly 1:00,
Caillin Caldwell 0:01, Pearse Cusack 0:01 (1 free) Duine
eile 1:00.
St. Johns: 1.Ciaran
McKissock 2.Marty Elliott,3 Colm mcCrudden,4.Sean McDaniel,
5.Peter McGarrity, 6.Anthony Moore, 7.James Darragh 8.Eoghan
Caldwell 9.Aodh Hamilton, 10.Jamesy McGibbon, 11.Brian
Holmes, 12. Tomas Shannon 13.Aodhan Mulholland 14.Pat
Gregory 15.Michael Loughran
Substitutes Used:
16.Aaron McKenna, 17 Sean-Paul Wright 18.David
McGarrity, Not Used :19.Michael Flannery
St. Johns Scorers:
Brian Holmes 1:02, Eoghan Caldwell 0:03(2 frees),
Sean- Paul Wright 1:00, Michael Loughran 0:02, Tomas Shannon
0:01, Jamesey McGibbon 0:01
12/05/04
All County Minor Hurling League (Corrigan Park)
St.Johns -
Lamh Dhearg - DID NOT FIELD
Lamh Dhearg did not field in this U-18 Minor Hurling
League game giving our Minor Hurlers the points.
13/05/04 South
Antrim U-16 Football League (Poleglass Pitch)
St. Johns 1:08 (11)
Gort na Mona 4:05 (17)
St. Johns U-16 footballers fell by 6 points in an entertaining
league encounter on Thursday evening. Again another tail
of 2 halves for the U-16's who trailed by 3:03 (12)to
0:02(2) before mounting a second half come back only to
fall short at the end.
St. Johns:
1.Ciaran Lavery 2.Aodh Hamilton 3.Colm McCrudden 4.Pat
Gregory 5.Anthony Moore 6.Kevin Cunningham 7.Conor Kearney
8.Declan McVeigh 9.Peter McGarrity 10.Brendan McGibbon
11.Brian Neeson 12.Brian Holmes 13.Ciaran McKissock 14.James
Darragh 15.Sean-Paul Wright
Substitutes: All
used : 16. Tommy McDonald 17.Antaine Stone 18.Jamesey
McGibbon
St. Johns Scorers: Brian
Neeson 1:04 (3 frees), Jamesey McGibbon 0:01, Anthony
Moore 0:01, Kevin Cunningham 0:01, Declan
McVeigh 0:01
