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Cork’s Johnny Murphy drives towards the Tipperary goal as Evan Morris chases him. Picture: Brendan Gleeson<\/p>\n\n
Tipperary 1-21<\/p>\n
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Cork 0-22<\/p>\n
A Cork team that had to operate with 14 players for the second half fell just short against Tipperary in Wednesday\u2019s Fulfil Munster U20HC opener.<\/p>\n
Before a crowd of 2,669 at FBD Semple Stadium, a goal from Jamie Ormond \u2013 younger brother of Tipp senior Andrew \u2013 was the difference on the scoreboard and also the moment that served to swing the momentum back the home side\u2019s way.<\/p>\n
Ormond reacted quickest when a shot from Cormac Fitzpatrick, who finished with 11 points for Tipp, came back off the post on 42 minutes. Prior to that, Cork had turned a 0-12 to 0-11 half-time lead into a 0-19 to 0-13 advantage despite having had John Murphy sent off in first-half injury time.<\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick\u2019s frees gave Tipp the lead down the stretch, with Cork losing their way before Johnny Murphy levelled for Cork and Barry O\u2019Flynn similarly equalised after the excellent Stefan Tobin had his sixth of the evening.<\/p>\n
Into injury time, Fitzpatrick pushed Tipp back in front and Tipp senior star Ois\u00edn O\u2019Donoghue had the final say.<\/p>\n
Cork’s Johnny Murphy drives towards the Tipperary goal as Evan Morris chases him. Picture: Brendan Gleeson<\/p>\n
Such a close outcome appeared remote given the way Tipp began, with six unanswered points in the opening 11 minutes.<\/p>\n
A speculative Barry Walsh goal effort that was block was all Cork had to show for that period and, even when the Killeagh man landed a few frees to get them off the mark, Tipp were able to keep them at arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n
Cork began to win more breaks and Johnny Murphy might have even had a goal on 18 minutes but, while being fouled himself, fouled the ball in the act of scoring. Walsh converted the free and another immediately after to leave it 0-8 to 0-5.<\/p>\n
Darragh Heavin in defence and Jack O\u2019Brien were to the fore as Cork inched closer, though O\u2019Donoghue did go close to a goal after a catch and run. Cork goalkeeper Ois\u00edn Walsh was out well to force him wide, leading to a an off-target shot \u2013 from the puckout, Walsh found Zach Biggane, whose point made it 0-9 to 0-8.<\/p>\n
Though Cormac Fitzpatrick \u2013 deadly from frees throughout for Tipp \u2013 and Tobin pushed the hosts in front again by 24, Cork improved further and Johnny Murphy and John Murphy were among those forcing fouls, with Walsh sending over four consecutive frees to give the visitors the lead for the first time.<\/p>\n
However, the last act of the half was a reduction in their manpower: referee Nicky O\u2019Toole well-positioned to adjudicate on an off-the-ball incident between John Murphy and Shane Cleary, sending the Cork midfielder off.<\/p>\n
Early in the second half, the numerical disparity did not unduly affect Cork as Walsh\u2019s tenth and 11th points nudged them three ahead.<\/p>\n
A Fitzpatrick point at the other end didn\u2019t break the flow as Cork replied with three more \u2013 two Walsh frees and a fine Johnny Murphy point \u2013 to move five ahead and the lead was six, 0-19 to 0-13, when super work from Heavin gave Walsh the opportunity to convert another free.<\/p>\n
The goal halved the lead and gave Tipp hope, however. While Cork did almost snatch a draw, it was Tipp\u2019s evening.<\/p>\n
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Scorers for Tipperary: C Fitzpatrick 0-11 (0-8 f), S Tobin 0-6, J Ormond 1-0, O O\u2019Donoghue 0-2, E Doughan, D Costigan 0-1.\n <\/p>\n
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Cork: B Walsh 0-14 (0-13 f), Z Biggane, Johnny Murphy 0-2 each, B O\u2019Flynn, F O\u2019Brien, MT Brosnan, John Murphy 0-1 each.\n <\/p>\n
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TIPPERARY: P McCormack; C O\u2019Reilly, E Morris, S Ryan; D Ryan, E Murray, S Rowan; T Ryan, S Cleary; A Ryan, S Tobin, D Costigan; C Fitzpatrick, O O\u2019Donoghue, J Ormond.\n <\/p>\n
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Subs: E Doughan for A Ryan (half-time), P Ryan for S Ryan (45), J Hackett for Cleary (58), J Hayes for Costigan (60).\n <\/p>\n
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CORK: O Walsh (Youghal); D Heavin (Russell Rovers), M Barrett (Carrigtwohill), D Fitzgerald (Bride Rovers); MT Brosnan (Glen Rovers), D O\u2019Leary (Ballincollig), Ben Walsh (Killeagh); John Murphy (Mallow), Conor Noonan (Kanturk); Z Biggane (Charleville), Barry Walsh (Killeagh), Jack O\u2019Brien (Douglas); Johnny Murphy (Dromina), B O\u2019Flynn (Sarsfields), F O\u2019Brien (Erin\u2019s Own).\n <\/p>\n
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Subs: C Garde (Lisgoold) for Ben Walsh (45), C O\u2019Sullivan (Na Piarsaigh) for Biggane (48), James O\u2019Brien (Cloyne) for Jack O\u2019Brien (55), C Deane (Killeagh) for Noonan (57).\n <\/p>\n
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Referee: N O\u2019Toole (Waterford).\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tipperary 1-21 Cork 0-22 A Cork team that had to operate with 14 players for the second half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-365153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365153","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=365153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}