REPORT/PHOTOS: Kenmare/Kilgarvan/Dr Crokes Win Under 21 Hurling Final

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Mike O’Halloran on the Acorn Life Under 21 Kerry Under 21 Hurling Final between Kenmare/Kilgarvan/Dr Crokes and Lixnaw…

Kenmare/Kilgarvan/Dr Crokes 2-16

Lixnaw 1-14

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

A well deserved win for the K/K/DrC outfit today in Tralee when they completely out-played, out-muscled and out-thought Lixnaw from start to finish.

K/K/Drc were ahead after forty seconds with a point from their captain Gearoid Hennessey. By the seventh minute Lixnaw were behind by five with Michael Linehan scoring one goal and two points , the goal coming from a penalty which he manufactured himself.

K/K/DrC were 1-05 to 0-03 up by the fifteenth minute, Shane Conway and Jamie Galvin pointing for Lixnaw.

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Kenmare/Kilgarvan/DrCrokes were down to fourteen on twenty five minutes but it made no difference to their direct powerful play when James McCarthy grabbed the ball at the other end and powered his way in for a goal, Shane Conway had points for Lixnaw to leave the halftime score Kenmare/Kilgarvan/DrCrokes 2-08 Lixnaw0-09.

Shane Conway put Lixnaw back in the game with a goal from a sideline cut within two minutes of the restart and with the aid of a strong wind Lixnaw must have fancied their chances of a win.

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

The next score was also for Lixnaw until on thirty seven minutes Lixnaw coughed up yet another free through their insistence on short passing out of defence, Michael Linehan tapped that free over along with another one three minutes later to leave the score on thirty eight minutes K/K/DrC 2-10 Lixnaw 1-10.

The sides were even player number wise when Lixnaw had a man sent off on forty five minutes.

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

Try as they might Lixnaw could never get to grips with the power of the south Kerry boys.
While Michael Linehan will receive all the plaudits for his scoring prowess, this was far from a one man show.

Gearoid Hennessey, Daniel Casey, Donal O’Sullivan did their bit, but the stand out men for me were Dan and James McCarthy with the amount of selfless work they did all day to fashion this win for Kenmare/Kilgarvan/Dr Crokes.

This now is a very solid foundation for a senior team from South Kerry Board to set their sights on winning a senior county championship.

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

Surely with nearly thirty years of development gone into “the weaker hurling areas” there should be at least one team if not two capable of contesting the senior county championship.

The South Kerry scene contains St Pats East Kerry, Tralee Parnells, Kenmare, Kilgarvan, Duagh and Dr Crokes, there must be more players in that pool than there are in any one North Kerry club.

South Kerry are on the brink of big success if they can keep these players together. I believe that if this team played in this years senior championship they would have reached the semifinals at least. Well done to Kenmare/Kilgarvan/Dr Crokes on todays success and hard luck to Lixnaw.

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

Photo by Mike O’Halloran

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