Culloty Breaks Albino Hearts

Wednesday Division 1

A Joe Culloty strike right at the full time whistle for Fritzl Palace settled this pulsating clash with Albino Leffe with Palace winning 4-3. Both he and Mike Wren, who opened the scoring with a wonderful left foot volley, were Palace's best players on the night in a game that was end to end for the hour. Peter Kelleher and Eanna O Braoanin were tops for Albino Leffe who were desperately unlucky to come away with nothing after an excellent performance.

After 5 weeks it looks like a 2 horse race in this division with Baggios and Ezy Fc well clear of the chasing bunch. Both teams again maintained their 100% record with wins over AC Standard and Deportivo respectively.

Baggios had it a bit tougher in their game against AC Standard who again had Tim O Connor in top form and scoring a hatrick for the losing side as they went down 5-3. Ben Ryan was best for the Baggios and he scored along with Wayne O Callaghan, Darragh O Regan and Aaron Atkinson (2)

Ezy FC were better in all departments over Deportivo, winning comfortably by an 8-2 scoreline. The very lively John Daly was again Ezy's top player and scored half of their tally. Andy O'Mahony showed his strength up front for Ezy and also scored a hatrick. John O'Brien scored both Deportivo's consultation goals.

Dynamo Tonduff and Slaibh na mBan also played out a very entertaining game, that seemed a lot closer than the eventual 5-0 scoreline that went in Sliabh's favour. They welcomed back Paul Tierney to their side, a move that proved to be the difference between the sides as he controlled the midfield as well as scoring with 2 long range strike. The evergreen John Browne rolled back the years and worked tirelessely in midfield for Slaibh na mBan as they ran away the points in the 2^nd half after they led 1-0 at the break. Tommy Dunne also worked hard for a well organised na mBan team, while Dave Murphy was best for Tonduff.

Wednesday Division 2

This division saw all teams play 2 games last week also playing on Monday evening.

Andrew “Dogzy” Dorgan was star man for Roco Risers as he struck an incredible 7 times for his side in their 11-3 demolition of the Angry Badgers. He showed some class finishing and now leads the Golden Boot race with 13 goals after 6 weeks in this league. Mark Murphy and Ryan O'Brien were Roco's other top players who were 2-0 down after 10 minutes. Mike Holland and Cathal Cormack were also on the score sheet for the league leaders. Dave O'Donovan and John Owens (2) were the Badgers hitmen.

Schuff FC lost ground on the leaders as they went down 4-3 to a determined Balaga Tongo side. This tie was also decided by a very late strike from Eoin Hayes who popped up with his 2^nd of the evening to clinch an important 3 points for Balaga. They had Conor McDowell to thank for some excellent saves to keep them in the game. Eoin Kennedy was a live wire up front for Balaga and was always a threat to the Schuff defence. Kevin Fitzgerald, Darren Lynch and Seamus Forde were all on the mark for Schuff, who also had Aidan McGuinness in fine form.

Missing FC stayed in touch and are a point behind the leaders after a 5-0 walkover against Rosies, after they drew 4-4 in a brilliant game with Schuff FC on Monday evening. Schuff conceded a late penalty which Jurgen Bukowski dispatched to complete his hatrick and an impressive comeback after Schuff had raced into a 3 nil lead. The excellent Darren Lynch also hit a hatrick for Schuff who crucially conceded 2 very late goals this week that may cost them dearly as the season progresses.