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Cork’s Isabelle O’Callaghan is tackled by Tipperary’s Kate Duffy and Tara Maher. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n\n Tipperary 2-15 Cork 2-6\n <\/p>\n
Disappointment for Cork as they lost out to Tipperary in the Munster U16 A championship final at Castle Road on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The damage was done in the first half and by the break Tipp were 1-10 to 0-2 in front and it was always going to be difficult for the Rebels to come back from there.<\/p>\n
To their credit they never gave up and kept fighting to the bitter end, but on the day, they were simply beaten by a better side.<\/p>\n
Tipp were outstanding all through and defensively gave the Cork forwards little or no room.<\/p>\n
Up front Lily Ivors was a handful but player of the game by a mile was Maria Groome.<\/p>\n
The half-forward was superb from start to finish and a constant threat to the Cork defence. She finished with 2-2 but it wasn\u2019t just her scoring that caused the home side problems.<\/p>\n
Her ability to run with the ball and take on defenders made her a handful and were in not for a number of quality saves from Cork keeper Kayleigh Murphy, Groome\u2019s tally could have been higher.<\/p>\n
Ivors opened the scoring from a free, with Saili O\u2019Connor and Olivia Looby adding to Tipp\u2019s tally before Isabelle O\u2019Callaghan got Cork off the mark from a free.<\/p>\n
Ivors and Groome increased Tipp\u2019s lead, to make it 0-6 to 0-1 after 20 minutes. Three minutes later and Groome had the first of her goals, giving Murphy no chance of saving.<\/p>\n
Ivors added two more points to make it 1-8 to 0-1 as half-time approached. Cork\u2019s only goal chance came when Orla O\u2019Brien\u2019s effort was well saved by Sinead Delaney.<\/p>\n
Ivors hit two more, with O\u2019Callaghan replying from a free to see Tipp lead by 1-10 to 0-2 at half-time.<\/p>\n
Cork’s Isabelle O’Callaghan is tackled by Tipperary’s Kate Duffy and Tara Maher. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
Tipp had another goal chance at the start of the second half, this time Murphy denying Melanie Flannery.<\/p>\n
Ivors and Lauren McAuliffe exchanged points, before Groome got Tipp\u2019s second goal, to make it 2-12 to 0-3 and with it any chance of a Cork comeback.<\/p>\n
To be fair they tried, with Alanah Murphy pulling a goal back and points from O\u2019Callaghan and Simone Fitzgerald reducing the deficit, 2-13 to 1-5.<\/p>\n
Eabha Lynch got a second goal for Cork late on but it was no more than a consolation score as Tipp ran out deserving winners.<\/p>\n
Cork will now have to regroup ahead of their All-Ireland clash with Galway in two weeks time. <\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Tipperary: M Groome 2-2, L Ivors 0-9 (7f), S O\u2019Connor, O Looby, L Lee, A O\u2019Donnell 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Cork: A Murphy, E Lynch 1-0 each, I O\u2019Callaghan 0-4 (4f), L McAuliffe (f), S Fitzgerald 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n TIPPERARY: S Delaney; G Troy K Creedon, T Maher; K Duffy, E Ahern, T Corbett; C Kennedy, A O\u2019Donnell; M Flannery, M Jones, M Groome; O Looby, S O\u2019Connor, L Ivors.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: LA Cleary for M Jones, L Lee for M Flannery (both 39), M Lonergan for S O\u2019Connor (47), R O\u2019Connor for K Duffy, A Cully for E Ahern (both 53), A Ryan for O Looby, M Kennedy for L Ivors, L Ryan for G Troy (all 55).<\/p>\n
\n CORK: K Murphy (Sliabh Rua); E Dennehy (Ballinhassig), A McCarthy (Blarney), L Sheehan (St Finbarr\u2019s); Kate O\u2019Mahoney (Kilbrittain\/Timoleague), E Lynch (Blarney), L Daly (Inniscarra); E Rath (Sliabh Rua), S Carey Ni Loingsigh (Aghabullogue); O O\u2019Brien (Cloughduv), L McAuliffe (Newtownshandrum), A Coughlan (Newtownshandrum); C Walsh (Killeagh), C Leahy (Blarney), I O\u2019Callaghan (Cloughduv). <\/p>\n
\n Subs: S Gilmore (Clonakilty) for A Coughlan, A Byerley (Clonakilty) for C Leahy, A Keane (Dungourney) for L Sheehan (all 29), A Murphy (Aghabullogue) for O O\u2019Brien (ht), A (Sarsfields) Ryan for L Daly (34), A Kenneally (Brian Dillons) for L McAuliffe (43), S Fitzgerald (St Catherine\u2019s) for C Walsh (50), E Cafferkey (St Vincent\u2019s) for K O\u2019Mahoney (55).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: Philip Dee, Limerick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tipperary 2-15 Cork 2-6 Disappointment for Cork as they lost out to Tipperary in the Munster U16 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22287,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-263060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-camogie","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}