If we want to win the championship this year we have to win games like this Konterman
Posted in General on 28. Aug, 2010
“If we want to win the championship this year, we have to win games like this,” Konterman declared.Livingston lost for the first time since promotion, going down 1-0 to Dundee at Dens Park. Juan Sara kept up his goal-a-game record with the decisive header in the 23rd minute, meeting a cross from Alessandro Romano to head past keeper Javier Sanchez Broto and ensure Ivano Bonetti’s side remain unbeaten.Hibernian gained their first victory of the campaign, defeating Aberdeen 2-0 at Easter Road. Franck Sauz?provided a fifth-minute lead from the penalty spot, then Tom McManus doubled the lead seconds before half-time. The Hibernian manager, Alex McLeish, said: “Tom has been complaining about not being in the team, so he has given me a selection problem with that performance.
With games against Rangers and Celtic coming up, we needed a win.”Dundee United won 1-0 at pointless St Johnstone, thanks to a Danny Griffin header against his old club.. Luke Donald and Nick Dougherty, the only Great Britain and Ireland pairing to lose in the morning foursomes, gained precious singles victories to keep alive the visitors’ hopes of successfully retaining the Walker Cup for the first time. Luke Donald and Nick Dougherty, the only Great Britain and Ireland pairing to lose in the morning foursomes, gained precious singles victories to keep alive the visitors’ hopes of successfully retaining the Walker Cup for the first time.
At one point on a sweltering afternoon at Ocean Forest, Peter McEvoy’s team appeared to be melting away as the Americans led in seven of the eight singles. But after Marc Warren, the 20-year-old from East Kilbride, ended the 49-year-old John Harris’ record sequence of six singles victories with a 5 and 4 win, Donald and Dougherty, both expected to be future stars in the professional ranks, rallied to prevent Britain completely frittering away their morning advantage.After returning from an hour’s suspension due to the threat of a storm, in the last remaining match the Americans’ Lucas Glover beat the Amateur champion Michael Hoey of Ireland at the 18th hole to give the hosts a 5-3 win in the singles and a 61/2-51/2 lead going into the second series of four foursomes and eight singles today. Two years ago at Nairn, the GB and I team overturned a two-point deficit from the first day for their fifth victory in 37 attempts.
A similar result remains possible, but might have been out of reach without those two late wins.Donald, 23, has served four years’ apprenticeship as one of the leading players on the US college circuit. Dougherty is still only 19 but has been tutored by none other than Nick Faldo, and is also planning a Tour career immediately this match is over. At Nairn, Donald won all four of his games, but the chance of becoming the first British player to win five consecutive games in the Walker Cup disappeared in the morning. Facing Jeff Quinney, the reigning US Amateur champion, in the afternoon, Donald was three down after five but won six of the next eight holes, a run started by holding a 35-footer for birdie at the sixth, and completed a 4 and 2 victory.Dougherty came back from two down with eight to play by winning the 12th, 14th, 15th and 17th against James Driscoll. “I wasn’t on top of my game, which makes it all the more pleasing,” Dougherty said.