Mountrath CS 2-8 St Mary’s CBS Enniscorthy 0-9
Leinster College’s Junior ‘A1’ Hurling Championship Final
Mountrath Community School have been crowned Leinster Junior A1 hurling champions following victory in Carlow Town hurling club this afternoon.
Coached by Christy Coughlan and Aaron Dunphy, the Laois school defeated St Mary’s CBS of Enniscorthy by five points.
A1 is a level in between A and B so this is a very impressive result for any Laois school.
Captain Conor Mortimer and centre back Tommy Goode were immense all day for their side.
While up front, the Castletown duo of Kyron Cuddy and Tom Og Phelan were excellent and they were driven by Donnchadh Carroll from midfield.
Mountrath settled well as Tom Og Phelan landed a brace of frees and Kyron Cuddy pointed.
Enniscorthy replied with a point but Mountrath’s next score was a goal. Phelan showed quick thinking to take a free quickly and Cuddy smashed the sliotar to the net.
Enniscorthy struck over three more points before half time but so too did Mountrath.
Phelan added two more points while Cuddy took his tally to 1-2 as they led 1-6 to 0-4 at half time.
Fergal Brennan added to the score when play resumed but then Enniscorthy came back into it with three points in a row.
The excellent Donnchadh Carroll settled Mountrath with a long range free and then sub Paddy Farrell made the title safe with a well taken goal.
SCORERS – Mountrath: Kyron Cuddy 1-2, Tom Og Phelan 0-4 (three frees), Paddy Farrell 1-0, Fergal Brennan and Donnchadh Carroll (free) 0-1 each
MOUNTRATH CS: Odhran Cuddy (Castletown); Conor Ryan (Castletown) Conor Mortimer (Captain) (Camross), Kyle Handcock (Rathdowney-Errill); Tomas Lynch (Ballyfin), Tommy Goode (Castletown) Cormac Keegan (Portlaoise); Donnchadh Carroll (Mountrath) Shane Connolly (Ballyfin); Callum Peters (Castletown), Daniel Whelan (Castletown), Mikey Kirwan (Mountrath); Tom Og Phelan (Castletown), Kyron Cuddy (Castletown), Fergal Brennan (Clough-Ballacolla). Subs: Paddy Farrell (Colt-Shanahoe) for Kirwan, Evan McSpadden (Borris-Kilcotton) for Brennan
ST MARY’S CBS ENNISCORTHY: Mark Reddy; Alfie Murphy, Ben Kavanagh, Kian Murphy; Jamie Downey, Darragh O’Regan, Dylan Farrell; Ben Walsh, Josh Sinnott (Captain); Darragh Kirwan, Rhys O’Gorman, Brian Ivers; Laurence Cloke, Rhys Wickham, Sam Kirwan
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