The under 21 hurlers comfortably beat the Shamrocks tonight by 2-19 to 0-04. Playing with the wind in the first half we started well getting the first few scores thanks to some good play by James Sweeney and Bryan Dwyer. However we let the Shamrocks close the gap by conceding some silly frees, but in fairness it never really looked like this was going to be a close game with the score at half time being 0-12 to 0-03. The second half started well and two quick goals from Peter Mernagh helped to put the game far past the Shamrocks reach. We tagged on some late scores from frees along with some well taken points feom Liam Gahan and Larry Murphy to finish the game comfortable winners.
Team was:
1. Sean Murphy 2. Ray O’Brien 3. Aidan Gahan 4. Seán McCabe 5. Dean Fenlon 6. Niall O’Reilly 7. Paul Gahan 8. Liam Gahan 9. Mick Sweeney 10. Laurence Murphy 11. Matthew Dunne 12. James Gahan 13. James Sweeney 14. Bryan Dwyer 15. Peter Mernagh
Subs: Padraig Flynn for James Gahan, Morgan Gahan for Seán McCabe, Patrick Walsh for James Sweeney, Tomas O Leary for Dean Fenlon
Scores: Peter Mernagh 2-10 (0-08 frees), Laurence Murphy 0-03, Bryan Dwyer 0-02, James Sweeney 0-01, Matthew Dunne 0-01, Dean Fenlon 0-01, Liam Gahan 0-01