\u200bFulfil Leinster U20 Hurling Championship, Tier 1, Round 2<\/p>\n
Group 1<\/p>\n
Kilkenny 1-18 Wexford 2-15<\/p>\n
Galway 1-19 Kildare 0-9<\/p>\n
Group 2<\/p>\n
Dublin 1-22 Laois 1-14<\/p>\n
By Paul Keane<\/p>\n
Henry Shefflin’s Kilkenny will go head-to-head with Galway to see who finishes top of their Fulfil Leinster U20 HC group to secure a semi-final place.<\/p>\n
But Galway will approach that final round clash on April 22 in pole position in Group 1 after comfortably taking care of business against Kildare to maintain their 100 per cent record.<\/p>\n
The young Tribesmen hammered Wexford in Round 1 and could afford to leave out senior stars Aaron Niland, who smashed 3-8 against Wexford, Jason Rabbitte, Sean Rabbitte and Cullen Killeen and still progress.<\/p>\n
Vince Morgan’s 19th minute goal, when he pounced after a long free in dropped short, put Galway 1-8 to 0-2 up at that stage and on the road to victory while Ciar\u00e1n Leen got on the scoresheet too.<\/p>\n
Tom Power scored all but one of Kildare’s first-half points as Galway hit the interval with a 1-11 to 0-5 lead.<\/p>\n
Points from Power and Ois\u00edn O’Neill after the restart cut Kildare’s deficit to six, 1-11 to 0-8, but they didn’t score again for a dozen minutes as Galway pulled decisively clear.<\/p>\n
There was a much more dramatic ending to the Kilkenny-Wexford game with Patrick Lacey pointing in the fourth minute of stoppage time to rescue the draw for Kilkenny.<\/p>\n
Wexford were 0-11 to 0-7 up at half time but a strong third quarter performance by Kilkenny, which included scores from Kevin Buggy, Ed Lauhoff, Lacey and Jake Mullen, helped the holders to lead by 0-16 to 0-13.<\/p>\n
They led by four when Ollie O’Donovan pounced for a Kilkenny goal in the 56th minute after a high delivery into the danger area, 1-16 to 0-15.<\/p>\n
But the drama was just beginning as Wexford goals from sub Conor Fanning and Se\u00e1n O’Brien left them a point ahead deep into stoppage time. That’s when Lacey intervened for Kilkenny to ensure the stalemate.<\/p>\n
The result leaves Wexford with a point in Group 1 and Kildare pointless, so the winner of their Round 3 game will qualify for a quarter-final.<\/p>\n
In Group 2, Offaly will take on Dublin in Round 3 to see who advances to the semi-final as table toppers.<\/p>\n
Offaly saw off a determined Meath on Thursday evening and Dublin had to dig similarly deep this afternoon to beat Laois.<\/p>\n
Dublin lost a player to a red card in the opening half and Laois led by 1-9 to 0-10 at half time, the goal coming from an Eoin Murphy penalty.<\/p>\n
Laois points from Cormac Byrne and Hugh Whelan left them 1-12 to 0-12 ahead with 45 minutes on the clock at Parnell Park.<\/p>\n
But Dublin hit the afterburners from there, outscoring Laois by 1-10 to 0-2 in the final quarter to win by a flattering eight-point margin.<\/p>\n
Darragh Kilduff, sub Daniel O’Kelly and Callum Graham hit important points for Dublin in that period late on while Aaron Gargan drilled their goal in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n
All is not lost Laois and Meath at the foot of Group 2 as the winner of their Round 3 meeting, in Meath, will advance to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bFulfil Leinster U20 Hurling Championship, Tier 1, Round 2 Group 1 Kilkenny 1-18 Wexford 2-15 Galway 1-19 Kildare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-394349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394349","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=394349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}