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ALLIANZ NATIONAL HURLING LEAGUE
DIVISION 1B ROUND 5
ATTENTION: Galway defender Greg Lally is pursued by Limerick’s Barry Murphy at Pearse Stadium. Photo: Diarmuid Greene/SPORTSFILE
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Hayes the hero for Limerick
Galway ..............1-19 Limerick ...........2-18
By DECLAN ROONEY Media West Ireland
The teams shared four points in the next few minutes, but four-in-a-row from Galway including two from the in-form Cathal Mannon and a brilliant Greg Lally sideline cut put them back in control.
Limerick continued to pile on the wides – they hit 11 before the interval – and despite a Gillane 65, Galway stretched their lead to 1- 13 to 1-04 by the 28th minute as Cathal Mannion continually crept off declan Hannon to score.
But in first-half added-time a flash point materialised that saw david Burke lucky to escape with a yellow card.
despite consulting with his sideline official and two umpires, referee Cathal McAllister only booked the St Thomas’s midfielder.
But Limerick hit the next three points – all Gillane frees – to make it 1-16 to 1-12, while Hayes’s goal – via a deflection off Tuohey – in the 48th minute really renewed Limerick’s hopes.
promotion from division 1B of
Galway kept their noses ahead, but despite Joe Canning’s seasonal bow they could not gain a significant lead.
the Allianz Hurling League for the first time in eight years with
A free from Gillane and Flanagan’s fifth point drew Limerick level in the 59th minute, and a Canning 65 was cancelled out by Graeme Mulcahy before Lynch fired the lead score for Limerick and ryan finished the job at the death.
GALWAY: J Skehill; A Tuohy, P Mannion, S Bannon; G Lally (0-2, 0-1 sideline), G McInerney, A Harte; J Coen (0-2), D Burke (0-1); S Maloney, C Mannion (1-4), C Whelan; N Burke, C Cooney (0-2), J Flynn (0-7, 0-6 frees). Subs: D Glennon for Burke (25-29, blood) & for Flynn (58), J Hanbury for Bannon (44-47, blood) & for Tuohy (48), J Canning (0-01, 0-01 ’65) for Maloney (53), S Cooney for Lally (54), B Concannon for N Burke (67).
LIMERICK: N Quaid, S Finn, R McCarthy, R English; D Byrnes, D Hannon, D Morrissey; P Browne, C Lynch (0-1); G Hegarty (0-1), T Morrissey, D Reidy (0-2); A Gillane (1-7, 1-0 pen, 0-6 frees, 0-1 ‘65), S Flanagan (0-5), B Murphy. Subs: K Hayes (1-0) for Hegarty (18), P O’Loughlin for Byrnes (35-40, blood), G Mulc- ahy (0-1) for Flanagan (60), Pat Ryan (0-1) for Reidy (63), Colin Ryan for Browne (66).
REFEREE: Cathal McAllister (Cork).
victory over All-ireland champi- ons Galway in Pearse Stadium.
Limerick needed a bright start against the All-ireland champions,
but after three early wides from Kiely’s troops, it was the home side
that flew into the action with scores from Conor Cooney and david Burke.
A long puck-out from James Shehill from one of those wides resulted in Galway’s goal in the third minute, and
after the ball broke off Jason Flynn, Cathal Mannion fired a crisp ground
stoke past nicky Quaid.
Johnny Coen fired a point straight away
A point from Gearoid Hegarty got them up and running, before Adrian Tuohey was penalised for a hold on Barry Murphy and Aaron Gillane dispatched the penalty.
KyLE Hayes hit a key goal as Limerick recov- ered from an eight- point half-time deficit to seal
A free from Gillane and a david reidy’s score from play put six points between the sides in the early stages of the second-half, but a Flynn free seemed to stem that Limer- ick tide somewhat.
Burke was fouled in the build up to Flana- gan’s fourth point, but when diarmuid Byrnes pulled Burke up off the ground a melee ensued, and Burke lashed out at Byrnes with his hurley.
for Galway as they led 1-03 to 0-00 after three minutes, but to their credit Limerick began to pick out their forwards, and with Seamus Flanagan impressive at the edge of the square they hauled their way back into the action.