After a summer break with scheduled matches postponed the Lisburn under 16s re started with a bang. They played Creggan 22:07:10. Last time these two teams met Creggan ran away with it. This time both teams were understrength. Lisburn were ably assisted by under 14 players Conor O’Doherty and Mark Walsh. Both players excelled with Mark Walsh playing in the half back and cancelling out one of their best players. Conor O’Doherty was playing in the half forward line and ended up with a total score of 1-01. New comer to the team Josh Flynn also got on the score sheet with a well taken point. The half time score was Creggan 0-04 St Patricks 2-03. Scorers for Lisburn were Sean O’Doherty 0-02, Josh Flynn 0-01 with the goals coming from Niall McKillion and Padraig McMahon.
The second half was totally controlled by the Lisburn lads out scoring the home side 3-05 to 1-03. Final score was Creggan 1-07 Lisburn 5-08. Prior to this game Creggan were league leaders but this result allowed Ballymena to go top… Ballymena just happened to be the next match.
St Patricks v Ballymena 25:07:10
A wet Sunday at Kirkwoods was the setting for this match. Unfortunately no referee turned up so it was decided to referee one half each. Ballymena got the better first half with 4-03 with the home side only getting 2-02. Mind you there was a possible goal disallowed for Lisburn when the ball seemed to come off the inside of the left post and then through a hole in the net. The umpire indicated that it had gone wide and the rest is history. Being seven points down the local lads responded well and points from D Taggart M Fegan and M Owens along with a goal from the ever industrious M Beeton put them back to two points. Both teams exchanged points and as the clock was running down Lisburn went looking for a three pointer to win the match. Unfortunately as Lisburn committed more men to the attack Ballymena were the ones who hit on the break and scored the goal.
Final score St Patricks 3-06. Ballymena 5-05.
Things may have been very different if the “goal” in the first half had stood. This allowed Ballymena to stay top of the league.
Tonight 5:08:10 St Patricks travelled the short distance to Aghagallon who have been struggling with a young talented team. The game was very one sided with Aghagallon failing to score in the first half. In the second Lisburn rested some players and tried some people in new positions. Indeed that had a new player Gareth Ringland who scored 2 goals in the second half. The final score was Aghagallon 0-05 St Patricks 9-08.
