Golden Oldies Win Top Of The Table Clash

Wednesday Division 2

Honours in this division should now go to the Golden Oldies as they won a crucial clash with season rivals Balaga Tonga. Balaga held the lead until 8 minutes to go, after Joe Dempsey scored an early opener. Damien Kennedy was in superb form and made some wonderful saves for Balaga to keep the Oldies at bay. But when Eoin Cotter equalised, the Balaga heads dropped and their flood gates opened as and Cotter, Killan and Philip Hogan ran in 4 more late goals.

Multiple Scorgasams had a 6-4 win over Hit and Miss to keep in with a chance for honours and move into 2^nd place. Kieran Buckley scored a hatrick and Ian Cotter was also instrumental in their victory.

Wednesday Division 3

David Green was in great form for Fritzl Palace and scored a brilliant late goal to seal the points in a hard fought battle with the Baggios.

Sub Standard Liege and Rosies played out an exciting 2-2 draw. A late James Mealy equaliser sealed a point for Liege. Michael O’Sullivan was excellent for Rosies and scored their 2^nd goal.

MP O’Sullivan came from a goal down at half time but were too strong for BNYM FC in the 2^nd half and ran out easy winners. Gavin Ahern was excellent for O’Sullivans. The dependable Mick Crowley hit a brace as did Colin Guiney and Bernard Curtin for the champions.

Joe O Sullivan rolled back the years for the Average Joes and scored twice to help his team to a narrow 3-2 win over Gowlacticos. His 2^nd goal was a beautiful lob over the Gowlacticos keeper and was the highlight in this end to end game.

Wednesday Division 1

Racing Club and Far From Athletic kept up momentum with 2 good wins to keep their last game of the season to be a top of the table, winner take all clash. Padraig McGovern hit a hatrick for Racing who dispatched Douglas Mortgage 4-1. Cormac Murray did well for Racing in defence and made some crucial blocks during this win that kept his side on top by 2 points.

Far From easily dispatched an inexperienced Cork Celtic team 5-1. Shane Aherne was excellent for Celtic and got the man of the match. Pat O’Regan and Phil Mohally got a brace a piece for Far From.

Thursday Division 1

The Cow Tippers had too much power and pace for the Ex Pats and won out

comfortably in this one sided affair. Peter Kelleher who has a real eye for the goal hit a hatrick and the ever reliable Steve Dwyer also hit the net on a few occasions.

OS Naventages were out played by the Net Busters who put in a great shift and worked very hard for this surprise win. Paul Sexton was superb and hit a hatrick for Net Busters. Adrian Burke was also in good scoring form and hit a brace.

The All Blacks and the 30 Somethings fixture produced, as expected another tight game that resulted in a 1-1 draw. A great strike from Graham Virgo cancelled out an Alan Bowen goal for the Somethings

Thursday Division 2

Novartis and Boothouse Bingers produced the tie of the evening that resulted in a 4-2 for Novartis. This very tight game was won in the dying minutes as Novartis came up with 2 very late goals to seal a great win. Karl Daly was again in brilliant form and scored twice for the winners.

Paddy Daughton came up with the winning goal for the Bandits as the beat Rovers by the odd goal. Stephen Keane tried hardest for Rovers and scored with a great strike to give Rovers the lead.

Ken O Connor starred for Athletico PTF as the trounced Sons of Pitches 6-1. He scored twice, one long range effort and the other with a great header to help seal the 3 points for PTF.

Thursday Division 3

Apple Exiles produced a great team performance that resulted in an easy win over JT Specials. Mark Ryan was central to the slick passing of the Exiles who have got stronger as the season has progressed.

Conor O’Mahony came up with a last minute winner for the Flying Column as they beat their Barrack St rivals South City, 4-3 in an excellent game. Alan Mullary was excellent for the Column who were made to work very hard for the points.

The goalkeeping skills of Jim Hanlon was a feature in Panicakios’s win

over Whitfords, that maintains their title aspirations. They  ran out 2-0 winners but were pushed all the way by the experienced Whitfords. Simon and Seamus O’Brien were on the scoresheet for Panicakios.