Mike O’Halloran reports on the Kerry Senior County Hurling League Final held yesterday evening…

Crotta 1-12

Kilmoyley 0-14

Crotta are the Kerry Senior County hurling league champions after defeating Kilmoyley.

Crotta were 1-02 ahead after six minutes with all the scores coming from Shane Nolan. His goal came after some hard ball carrying by Tomas O’Connor.

Dan Collins had Kilmoyley’s first score from a free. Crotta added five more points before Kilmoyley scored again — the Crotta points coming from the sticks of Jordan Conway and Sean McElligott with one each and Shane Nolan with two.

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Liam Flaherty pointed for Kilmoyley, while Darragh O’Donoghue replied for Crotta. Donal Corridon put over a point and Dan Collins added two before halftime.

Shane Nolan had one to leave the halftime score Crotta 1-09 Kilmoyley 0-05. Ronan Walsh and Daire Nolan had points for Kilmoyley and Shane and Cillian Trant had points for Crotta.

The next four points were in favour of Kilmoyley with Dan Collins, Jordan Brick, Ronan Walsh and Bobby O’Connor on target.

Kilmoyley were wide with two frees while Shane Nolan made it 1-12 to 0-11. Then came the Kilmoyley barnstorm finish with three unanswered points from Paudie O’Connor and two from Daire Nolan, but the clock ran out on them and Crotta win their first county league since 2010.

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