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All Ireland Under-21 Bord Gais Semi-Final
Kilkenny 2-22 Antrim 2-7 |
The Kilkenny Under-21 side made it a clean sweep of qualifiers for All Ireland hurling finals for the county for the second year in succession when they disposed of Antrim in Saturday’s semi-final played in Páirc Tailteann, Navan. Star of the show for the Kilkenny side was Richie Hogan who constantly tormented the Antrim defence registering fourteen points in total. Kilkenny experienced a sluggish first half and led by two points at the interval 0-8 to 1-3 the goal being conceded on the stroke of half time when the defence failed to clear a close in free and Darren Hamill nipped in to finish. The second half saw a far better performance from the winners and a succession of points interspersed with goals from John Mulhall and John Joe Farrell saw out a comfortable victory for the black and amber side.
Kilkenny now face Clare in the All Ireland final on September 13th in Croke Park in what promises to be a great day out for all black and amber supporters as our Camogie team play Cork in their senior final on the same day.
The Kilkenny team and scorers Colin McGrath, Paul Murphy (0-2, 0-1 free), Paddy Nolan, Conor Fogarty, Lester Ryan (0-1), David Langton, Martin Walsh, Mark Kelly, Liam Ryan (0-1), Colin Fennelly, Mark Bergin (0-1), John Mulhall (1-1), Richie Hogan (0-14, 0-8 frees, 0-2 65’s), John Joe Farrell (1-1), James Nolan Subs. N. Cleere (0-1) for J. Nolan, K. Mooney for L Ryan. J. Dowling for M. Kelly, P. Mc Carthy for R. Hogan, A. Kearns for P. Nolan. |
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