All Blacks Shock Os Navegantes

Thursday Division 1

The All Blacks surprised everyone but themselves as they beat league leaders OS Navantages, and beat them well. Philip Healy scored with a great shot early in the game to set them on their way. Dave Depuis and Rob Healy both scored hatricks and  helped the All Blacks to their best team performance in a couple of seasons.

The Cow Tippers finally got off the mark as they beat the Net Busters 5-3 in a very tight game. A Steve Dwyer hatrick proved the difference as both sides produced some great football.

The 30 Somethings won by the same scoreline as they overcame the Ex Pats. A great first half hatrick by Niall Kerrigan for the Somethings pushed them into a 5-0 halftime lead. The Ex Pats showed their fighting spirit in the 2^nd half and scored 3 without reply to make the scoreline respectable.

Thursday Division 2

Boothouse Bingers who have a game in hand, closed the gap on Sporting CPL with a good win against the Rovers.  Robbie Bowen was in tremendous for the Bingers and pulled all the strings in midfield. A few excellent saves from Rob Cole in the Rovers goal kept the score at 7-4.

CPL were beaten for the first time this season by an inspired Athletico PTF team. Ross O Riordain, Jan Oosterhoff and John O’Sullivan were all on the mark for PTF as they won a close game 3-2.

Ivan Murphy produced a great strike from 20 yards to inspire Novartis to a 3-1 win over the Bandits. Alan McGrath was in top form for the Novartis boys while Gary Stack was the lone Bandit scorer.

Thursday Division 3

A great performace from Whitford’s Gavin Clancy inspired them to a 5-2 over the hard work JT Specials. The Specials were tied at 2-2 but Whitfords had a bit too much class in their side with Clancy scoring twice.

A Dillion O’Brien brace helped Panicakios had a 3-2 win over and unlucky Flying Column team and remain top of the pile by 3 points over Apple Exiles. Apple had a 6-2 win over South City but it could have been more only for Arthur O’Shea in the City goal who was in brilliant form. Ronan Geary scored twice and was again excellent for the exiles.

Wednesday Division 1

Far From Athletic came through a tough encounter with CUH who put in their best performance of the season. CUH were 2 goals down but battled hard and a late Ian Weir goal had them under pressure to hang on to the win for the last few minutes. Aaron Atkinson was best for Far From.

Douglas Mortgage stayed in touch with the leaders with a 4-2 win over Cork Celtic. John Mullarky stepped up to the mark for Douglas with 2 late goals. Racing Club who remain in top spot, had a 4-1 win over the Bons. A thunderbolt shot from almost the halfway line from Racing’s Patrick McGovern was the highlight in this game but Ian Forde also scored a beautiful volley for The Bons. Edward Noonan and Rory O’Leary who scored twice were excellent for Racing.

Wednesday Division 2

Multiple Scoregasams won out in a high scoring encounter with The Crew. Stephen Moynihan was central to their victory and laid on a few goals as well as being on the mark himself. Ian Cotter hit the net 4 times for the winners and Gary Marshall and Jamie McKenzie both scored twice for the Crew. Golden Oldies eased past the Pink Panthers to remain in top spot. Balaga Tonga who are joint top had it a bit tougher to secure the points but also came through against Boca Seniors. Joe Dempsey was star man and also scored a beautiful goal late on in the game to secure the win for Balaga.

Dan Williams scored a great individual goal for Hit & Miss as they hammered Dynamo Tonduff  5-0.

Wednesday Division 3

Rosies again Baggios played a thrilling game where the more experienced Rosies came out on top by the odd goal. Kieran Hurley put Rosies ahead with a bullet like shot after 10 minutes. An og and a Martin Higgins goal extended their advantage to 3-0 by half time. But Baggios inspired by Wayne O Callaghan and Pedro Oliveros came back to 3-3 with 5 minutes still remaining. With the momentum, Baggios were pushing for the equaliser when Rosies caught them on the break and Higgins came up with the winner from close range with the last kick of the game.

Fritzl Palace beat Sub Standard Liege 6-2. Mike Wren again in great form as was Sean Stack for the winners, but the highlight was a rocket from Seamus Daly for Palace.

The 2 top teams, Gowlacticos and MP O’Sullivans played out a hard fought 1-1 draw. Bernard Curtin got man of the match for O’Sullivan as he came up with a great header late in the game to seal a point and stop Gowlacticos from moving into top spot.

A draw was a fair result as the Bank of New York and the Average Joes shared 8 goals in a very entertaining game. The Montgomery Brothers Eric and Trevor shared a brace a piece for the Joes while Declan McMahon and John Deveraux were excellent for the Bankers.