\n Shandrum 2-12 Mallow 0-13\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Shandrum collected their fourth Avondhu U21 A Hurling title in a row at Milford in heavy conditions when they overcame Mallow after a very tough test.<\/p>\n
It was a game that Shandrum were expected to win but they got a real battle from a very young Mallow side, who had the game’s most dangerous forward in Cork U20 John Murphy, who landed 0-11, six from play.<\/p>\n
In the end, the experience of the winners made the difference as well as their better scoring spread and the long-range free-taking of goalkeeper Daniel O’Connell.<\/p>\n
Christopher Dunne opened with an early free before Andrew Hourigan levelled in the fourth minute. A booming free by O’Connell was followed by John Murphy’s first point for Mallow: 0-2 each.<\/p>\n
Eoin O’Mahony put Shandrum ahead but Murphy clipped two scores in a row and then Simon Lenighan made it 0-5 to 0-3 for Mallow.<\/p>\n
Murphy continued to keep the scoreboard ticking while Dunne converted 65.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for the underdogs, in wet weather, a long-range free by O’Connell found its way to the net to level 1-5 to 0-8.<\/p>\n
Murphy split the posts with another free to put Mallow ahead in the second half before Shandrum’s second goal in the 41st minute, when a massive delivery by keeper Daniel O’Connell found Killian Quinn, who netted: 2-5 to 0-9.<\/p>\n
From there, Shandrum defended very well with Bill Collins later named Man of the Match after an outstanding display at centre-back. They were 2-8 to 0-9 in front entering the final quarter and while Murphy landed two more points, the Newtown-Dromina combination had enough to maintain control.<\/p>\n
Scores by Daire Ryan, Cork U20 Johnny Murphy and O’Connell sealed the win. Mallow battled to the end but they needed a goal to have any chance.<\/p>\n
Shandrum were deserving victors and after the game, Avondhu chairman John Courtney presented the cup to the winning captain Killian Quinn.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Shandrum: C Dunne 0-5 (0-4 f, 0-1 65), D O’Connell 1-2 f, K Quinn 1-1, J Murphy, R Troy, D Ryan, E O’Mahony 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Mallow: J Murphy 0-11 (0-5 f), A Hourigan, S Lenighan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n SHANDRUM: D O’Connell; E Sheedy, T McCarthy, S O’Leary; D Ryan, B Collins, S O’Mahony; J Hogan, B Carroll; J Murphy, R Troy, T O’Neill; C Dunne, K Quinn, E O’Mahony.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: L Coughlan for T O’Neill, J D Egan for K Quinn (inj).<\/p>\n
\n MALLOW: S Kelleher; B Taylor, G Daly, D Kingston; D Fleming, B Kingston, E Walsh; L Buckley, A Murphy; B Murphy, J Murphy, S Copps; A Hourigan, S Lenighan, B Noonan.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: D Copps for D Fleming, L Malone for S Lenighan, L Walsh for B Murphy.<\/p>\n
\n Referee: Denis Motherway (Ballygiblin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shandrum 2-12 Mallow 0-13\u00a0 Shandrum collected their fourth Avondhu U21 A Hurling title in a row at Milford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24,18,129,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-176579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-hurling","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115536581368508842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}