Results
Munster minor hurling championship
Group 1 Round 2
- Tipperary 2-13 Clare 0-13
Group 2 Round 2
- Cork 4-21 Limerick 2-14
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CORK AND TIPPERARY booked their places in the semi-finals of the Munster minor hurling championship with victories this evening over Limerick and Clare respectively.
Cork built on last week’s opening win over Kerry by cruising past Limerick by 13 points at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Ross O’Sullivan was the scoring star of the show for the winners, firing 3-9 out of his team’s 4-21 tally.
The result ensures Cork will top Group 1 and advance straight to the semi-finals. Limerick take on Kerry next Wednesday night in the Gaelic Grounds, both teams are now destined to be in the quarter-finals with the last group game results determining who finishes second and third.
Na Piarsaigh club man O’Sullivan, who featured in last year’s All-Ireland minor winning campaign, scored 3-5 of his tally from play, but it was attacking colleague Sean O’Donoghue who struck the opening goal of the game.
Limerick responded with Darren Collopy finding the net but they were chasing the game by half-time as O’Sullivan raised his first green flag to leave Cork ahead 2-12 to 1-7 at the interval.
Cork kicked on in the second half with O’Sullivan bagging two more goals and Limerick did get a goal of their own courtesy of Mark Field.
Tipperary struck two crucial second-half goals to defeat Clare in Thurles, as they claimed a second victory in the wake of last week’s win over Waterford.
The match was evenly-balanced at half-time, the teams drawing 0-8 apiece, but then Tipperary pounced for those goals in the third quarter from Paddy McCormack and Tom Delaney, those strikes propelling them to an eventual six-point win.
Clare host Waterford in Sixmilebridge next Tuesday night, 19 April, in the final group game.
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