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Cork players Finn O’Brien and Zack Biggane pressure Waterford’s Cathal O’Sullivan. Picture: Howard Crowdy<\/p>\n\n Waterford 0-13\n <\/p>\n
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A huge show of character from Cork earned them victory over Waterford in Wednesday night\u2019s Fulfil Munster U20HC clash at Cappoquin Logistic Fraher Field.<\/p>\n
Having led by 0-6 to 0-5 at half-time, Cork \u2013 without Barry Walsh due to senior commitments \u2013 fell behind as Waterford made use of the elements in the second half. <\/p>\n
David Comerford\u2019s fourth point of the night made it 0-12 to 0-9 with 11 minutes remaining, but the D\u00e9ise were to score just once more as Noel Furlong\u2019s side dug deep.<\/p>\n
Johnny Murphy, who had been denied a goal by a block from corner-back Darragh Keane shortly beforehand, cut the gap with a fine point and Jack O\u2019Brien\u2019s ninth of the ninth, a free, left the minimum in it \u2013 that deficit was removed when captain Barry O\u2019Flynn scored a beauty from the sideline.<\/p>\n
Cork had the lead for the first time in the second period thanks to a lovely Finn O\u2019Brien score but Comerford kept his nerve to nail a big free, 0-13 each on 56. <\/p>\n
The hosts wasted two chances to go back in front though and Cork forged ahead again as sub Craig O\u2019Sullivan did brilliantly to block down a clearance and fire over and then, as normal time was about to expire, a free from goalkeeper Ois\u00edn Walsh broke and Conor Noonan reacted quickest to make it a two-point game.<\/p>\n
Cork players Finn O’Brien and Zack Biggane pressure Waterford’s Cathal O’Sullivan. Picture: Howard Crowdy<\/p>\n
Waterford searched for a goal and sub Tom\u00e1s Carey had searing slalom only for it to end with an over-carrying call while sideline cut from deep ended up going wide. The clock was just about to reach the allotted 63 minutes when hardworking Cork sub Jack Counihan was fouled and James O\u2019Brien ensured he finished with ten.<\/p>\n
One last Waterford attack came to nothing, with Hugo Quann\u2019s shot blocked, fittingly, by Cork corner-back Darragh Heavin, who was superb throughout.<\/p>\n
The win moves them top of the table on scoring difference, albeit with four points from three games while Clare and Tipperary have four from two \u2013 the counties clash next Wednesday. Unfortunately for Waterford, the result means qualification hopes ended after losses of one point, one point and three points.<\/p>\n
While the strong wind towards the estuary favoured Cork in the first half, it was diagonal and did not favour a feast of long-range shooting.<\/p>\n
They had the lead inside 35 seconds as Ben Walsh and Zack Biggane combined for James O’Brien to score but thereafter Waterford had the upper hand for the bulk of the half. Nice points from Conor Tobin and Mark Hartley had James O\u2019Connor\u2019s side in front.<\/p>\n
Then, after Walsh levelled with a good free, the D\u00e9ise attackers combined to good effect, with Hartley evading challenges before setting up Tobin for a 0-3 to 0-2 lead.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Flynn tied the game again before Paddy Spellman\u2019s pass allowed Shane Power to make it 0-4 to 0-3 for the home side \u2013 that was followed by the first of two good goal chances for Cork.<\/p>\n
From an Ois\u00edn Walsh puckout, wing-forward Zack Biggane did brilliantly as he won possession and carried the ball forward before releasing Conor Noonan but the midfield could not find the target.<\/p>\n
Hartley\u2019s second on the quarter-hour, exchanging passes with Comerford from a sideline cut, made it 0-5 to 0-3 before Cork responded well, with O\u2019Brien landing a free and then getting his fourth point following good work from Barry O\u2019Flynn and Jack O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n
From there, they might have netted as a good move saw Johnny Murphy set O\u2019Flynn away on a knifing run \u2013 he passed to Finn O\u2019Brien, who found the target but with James Comerford in the way.<\/p>\n
Another O\u2019Brien free did give them the interval lead but the upper hand was lost as Waterford had a blistering start to the second half. Comerford scored a free and then one from play when loose Cork play was turned over; Keane was the engineer for Tobin\u2019s third and Hartley\u2019s long-ranger made it 0-9 to 0-6.<\/p>\n
Two from O\u2019Brien kept Cork in touch, but Waterford looked to have the momentum without pulling clear. It was 0-11 to 0-9 when Keane denied Murphy and Cormerford\u2019s point immediately after gave the sense it was to be Waterford\u2019s night but Cork had other ideas.<\/p>\n
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Scorers for Waterford: D Comerford 0-5 (0-2 f), M Hartley 0-4, C Tobin 0-3, S Power 0-1.\n <\/p>\n
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Cork: James O\u2019Brien 0-10 (0-4 f, 0-1 65), B O\u2019Flynn 0-2, Johnny Murphy, F O\u2019Brien, C Noonan, C O\u2019Sullivan 0-1 each.\n <\/p>\n
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WATERFORD: J Comerford; D Keane, C Lynch, T Ahern; B Penkert, J McDonnell, C O\u2018Sullivan; H Quann, P Spellman; D Comerford, S Power, J Power; G O\u2019Shea, C Tobin, M Hartley.\n <\/p>\n
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Subs: C Shankey for S Power (26, injured), T Carey for Spellman (44), T Kennedy for O\u2019Sullivan (54).\n <\/p>\n
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CORK: O Walsh (Youghal); D Fitzgerald (Bride Rovers), M Barrett (Carrigtwohill), D Heavin (Russell Rovers); MT Brosnan (Glen Rovers), C Garde (Lisgoold), D O\u2019Leary (Ballincollig); B Walsh (Killeagh), C Noonan (Kanturk); Z Biggane (Charleville), James O\u2019Brien (Cloyne), Jack O\u2019Brien (Douglas); B O\u2019Flynn (Sarsfields), F O\u2019Brien (Erin\u2019s Own), Johnny Murphy (Dromina).\n <\/p>\n
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Subs: John Murphy (Mallow) for Jack O\u2019Brien (half-time), J Counihan for B Walsh (37), C O\u2019Sullivan (Na Piarsaigh) for Biggane (52), Walsh for O\u2019Leary (60).\n <\/p>\n
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Referee: N Malone (Clare).\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford 0-13 Cork 0-16 A huge show of character from Cork earned them victory over Waterford in Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-400480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400480","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=400480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}