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The senior team suffered their second defeat of the season in a hard fought game away to Saul on Friday 27th of April. Going in to the game there was only one point and one place seperating the two teams on the league table. Things started brightly for the Bosco lads and they dominated the opening 10 minutes but despite making lots of scoring opportunities they shot 5 wides and in a two minute spell Saul scored a goal, the result of poor defending, and two points to take a healthy lead. The Bosco lads fought back and after scoring a rather fortuitous goal of their own went in at half time only two points down. The second half started brightly for Bosco and they took a one point lead but a goal for Saul, again the result of a Bosco error, against the run of play allowed them to get their tails up and they proceeded to stretch their lead to six points. Although the Bosco team got the lead back to three points they unfortunately ran out of time.
SAUL 2-8 ST JOHN BOSCO 1-8
This defeat leaves the team now in third place in the division with a home match to come on Monday night (30th April) at Jack Mackin Park against Glenn with a 7.30 throw in.
U16’s
Bosco u16s are already three games into their season and with 23 players regularly turning up for training and matches competition for starting places is hot and heavy We started our campaign against a strong Loughlinisland side and came out victors by five pts . Stars on the night were Gary Crummy , Daire Rooney ,
Darren McShane, and Jordan Pinnington who came on as a sub and notched up three goals. Next we travelled to Saul to face one of the tallest underage teams i have ever seen . After a slow start where we fell behind by six points we finally got to grips with the game and were unlucky to lose by 2 pts after levelling the match with just two mins to go. Best for Bosco Ryan Carroll and Niall O Hare ,Daniel Graham and Paddy Mc Alorum in midfield Curtis Cregan was superb at centre half back , but man of the match by a long way was Caoilte Jackson whos tackling and high fielding was top drawer. Next up for our boys was Ballymartin at Jack Mackin park . The lads started like demons with tenacious tackling and superb fast flowing football and at half time were 9 pts to the good thanks to three wonderfully taken goals by Darren McShane and Jordan Pinnington .To their credit Ballymartin came right back into the game but Bosco held on to record a four point victory.
Next up for the U16’s is an away fixture against Leitrim and hopefully we’ll witness
another great display.
U 10’s
The U10’s had a home fixture on Sunday 29th April against Shane O’Neill’s in St Patrick’s Primary.
This was a great game of three periods of 15 minutes and excellent football played by both teams. The first period ended with Bosco getting in front 4 scores to 2 with two excellent points coming from the boot of Ruarai O’hare. Not to be outdone Shane O’Neill’s came back at Bosco in the second period notched up 5 scores to the Bosco’s sole score. Going into the third period Bosco trailed by 7 scores to 5 and Shane O’Neills defended brilliantly to try and hold the lead. Michael McNamara pointed from long distance to leave the finest margin between the teams. With barely seconds left on the clock Pól Óg McCormack popped up with the equalising score. At the full time whistle it ended all square with 7 scores apiece –Best for St John Bosco were David McCreesh in nets, Aidan McDonald, Mathew Monroe and Jack White in defence, Michael McNamara in midfield, Pól Óg McCormack, Ross Quigley and Keith McGrath in attack.
Next up for the U10’s is an away fixture against Warrenpoint next Sunday 6th May.
St Colman’s Dalton Cup Final
Best of luck to St Colman’s in the Dalton Cup final next Friday 4th May – especially to St John Bosco U14 players Lucas Rossiter and Paul Hadden who are part of the St Colman’s squad.
