23/05/04 Under 16 hurlers' performance is hot on equally scorching day

South Antrim U-16 Hurling League
Corrigan Park - Sunday - 12:00pm

St. Johns 5:07 (22)
St. Galls 2:02 (8)

St. Johns U-16's continued their steady progress in the South Antrim League on a really scorching May Sunday in Corrigan. They however made hard work of a first half where the sides went in level 1:02 apiece. They however went up several gears in the second half scoring 4:05 (17) to the Galls solitary goal.

Another tale of two halves for the Johnnies with a poor first half performance only to be greatly improved in the second half. St. Johns defence again were in solid form with Colm McCrudden and Aodh Hamilton in fine form with good support from Marty Elliott, Sean McDaniel, James Darragh and Anthony Moore.

The second half midfield pairing of Eoghan Caldwell and Aodhan Mulholland dominated this sector. The forwards shone in fits and starts with Barry McFall taking his normal brace of goals, as did Brian 'Homer' Holmes with an excellent side-line cut from the right wing to boot. The McGibbon cousins Jamesey and Brendan were extremely sharp with their introduction on 23 and 37 minutes.

St. Johns: 1.Ciaran McKissock, 2.Marty Elliott 3.Colm McCrudden 4.Sean McDaniel 5 Aodh Hamilton 6.Anthony Moore 7 James Darragh 8 Eoghan Caldwell 9.Brian Holmes 10.Pat Gregory 11 Peter McGarrity 12. Aodhan Mulholland 13 Sean-Paul Wright 14.Barry McFall (Captain) 15.Aaron McKenna

Substitutes: 16.Jamesey McGibbon 23mins, 17.Brendan McGibbon 37 mins, 18.David McGarrity 38 mins. 19.Michael Flannery
20.Stephen Corner 21 Michael Loughran 22.Gary Stone

St. Johns Scorers: Brian Holmes 2:01 (1 side-line cut), Barry McFall 2:00, Eoghan Caldwell 1:03 (0:02 frees), Pat Gregory 0:01,
Aodhan Mulholland 0:01, Jamesey McGibbon 0:01