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ST. LOUIS
St. Louis Hurling League, Round 7
MAY 31ST 2014

AOH COMMAND
After the Memorial Day weekend
off, the St. Louis Hurling League
swung back into action with three
games on the schedule for Week 7.
These games were make-up games
on account of missing Week 5
schedule due to the unavailability
of St. Vincent Park.
Prior to this latest round, the
Ancient Order of Hibernians Na
Fianna team were the ones to beat
as they commanded the Leaderboard with a record of 5-1 with just
points difference separating a close
race for second between O’Shay’s,
Tigin and Tower all on 4-2.

Game 1
Saturday, May 31, saw a beautiful 80F day greet the teams with
leaders Hibernians, on a two-win
streak, taking on Nellies. The latter are having a tough year as they
lie in the ‘Cellar’ with zero wins on
0-6. With the league in its fourth
last round before the Playoff ’s,
Nellies were desperate to get a win
on the board. Indiscipline in their
prior match didn’t help their cause
either as they started without
carded players. Little separated the
teams at the half with AOH ahead
by two points on 2-3 to 1-4. In the
second period Hibernians pushed
on with a brace of goals and a further six points and enough to take
Nellies, who could only muster
one goal in that half. Hibs top
scorer, Mike Hertfelder was once
again on song with 2-2, along with
Mike Hill (1-3), while Tony Collin
(1-0) and Tim Reinz (0-1) showed
well for Nellies.

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St. Louis League leaders, AOH Na Fianna, pose for a recent photo at St. Vincent Park. Aunt of team captain John Wilson, Sister Jeanne Marie Vonder
Haar, ASCJ, steps in with the happy bunch. See back page for more on the team. (Photo: St. Louis GAA)

Game 2
This turned out to be a comfortable win for Tigin over Amsterdam. Tigin were coming off a
good win against O’Shay’s last time
while Amsterdam were hit and
miss, having racked up a big win
in Week 4, only to falter next time
to Midwest Mortgage. Amsterdam
was also down key players due to
picking up cards the prior game.
Though Tigin led by four at the
break, Amsterdam were competitive and right in this game. Tigin
turned on their offense in the second half with David Moran’s 0-7
and team captain, Dan Brown (0-

5) driving their side to a 2-17 to
1-12 win. Amsterdam tried hard
with Pete DaPrato (0-7), Todd
Chapman (0-2) and John Behl (10) influential but it wasn’t enough.

Game 3
Tower ahead of their matchup with
McGurks, were flying high on three
straight wins, however, their opponents were struggling on 1-5 and
needed something. They had started
the season well having won their first
game but nothing in the win column
since. Unfortunately for McGurks,
things didn’t improve in Week 7 as
Tower scored early and often to run

out comprehensive winners on a
scoreline of 7-24 to 3-6. The Tower
side was in cruise control at the half
leading by 4-14 to 2-3. Three more
goals in the second period and a further 10 points saw them home without much fuss. Enda O’Donovan
caused havoc scoring 2-14 alone
with Charlie Conners (2-0) also on
song for Tower.
So after Week 7, AOH remains top
with the best record of