BATTLE BEGINS TO JOIN KILKENNY AND LIMERICK IN SEMI-FINALS

BATTLE BEGINS TO JOIN KILKENNY AND LIMERICK IN SEMI-FINALS

Kilkenny and Limerick are through to the GAA Hurling All-Ireland
Senior Championship Semi-Finals as respective Leinster and Munster
champions and now the race to join them gets underway, starting
next weekend with two preliminary Quarter-Finals
.
It’s Antrim v Cork (the winners will play Galway in the quarter-final)
and Kerry v Wexford (the winners will play Clare in the quarter-final)
with match details as follows:
Saturday
Antrim v Cork, Corrigan Park, Belfast 2.0
Kerry v Wexford, Austin Stack Park, Tralee
ANTRIM v CORK
They meet in the championship for the first time since 2010 when
Cork won an All-Ireland quarter-final by nine points.
How they reached this stage
ANTRIM
Joe McDonagh Cup
Antrim 3-22 Offaly 2-24
Antrim 6-22 Down 3-16
Antrim 2-22 Carlow 1-22
Antrim 7-29 Meath 3-14
Kerry 0-29 Antrim 2-21
Antrim 5-22 Kerry 4-24 (final)
Top Scorers
Conal Cunning……………..2-43 (0-34 frees, 0-1 ‘65’)
Ciarán Clarke……………….4-8 (2-0 pens)
Seán Elliot…………………….3-5 (0-1 s/l)
Conor Johnson……………..3-4
James McNaughton………..1-10 (0-8 frees)
How they reached this stage
CORK
Munster Senior Hurling Championship
Limerick 2-25 Cork 1-17
Clare 0-28 Cork 2-20
Cork 2-22 Waterford 1-19
Cork 3-30 Tipperary 1-24
Top Scorers
Patrick Horgan…………….0-28 (0-21 frees, 0-2 ‘65s’)
Conor Lehane………………0-16 (0-3 frees)
Aaron Connolly…………….4-2
Shane Kingston…………….1-8
LAST FIVE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETINGS
2010: Cork 1-25 Antrim 0-19 (All-Ireland quarter-final)
2004 – Cork 2-26 Antrim 0-10 (All-Ireland quarter-final)
1990 – Cork 2-20 Antrim 1-13 (All-Ireland semi-final)
1986 – Cork 7-11 Antrim 1-24 (All-Ireland semi-final)
1984 – Cork 3-26 Antrim 2-5 (All-Ireland semi-final)
KERRY v WEXFORD
Kerry return to action a week after losing the Joe McDonagh Cup
final in disappointing circumstances, going down by a point to Antrim
in an exciting game that produced a total of 9-46. Wexford finished
third in the Leinster ‘round robin’ behind Galway and Kilkenny.
How they reached this stage: WEXFORD
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship
Wexford 1-19 Galway 1-19
Dublin 0-24 Wexford 0-23
Wexford 6-21 Laois 0-12
Wexford 0-21 Westmeath 2-15
Wexford 1-22 Kilkenny 1-18
Top Scorers
Lee Chin………………….0-37 (0-27 frees, 0-3 ‘65’)
Rory O’Connor………….1-12 (0-4 frees)
Conon McDonald……..2-8
Mark Fanning……………2-4 (2-0 pens, 0-4 frees)
How they reached this stage: KERRY
Joe McDonagh Cup
Down 1-19 Kerry 0-18
Kerry 3-21 Carlow 0-15
Kerry 6-25 Meath 0-13
Offaly 4-23 Kerry 2-28
Kerry 0-29 Antrim 2-21
Antrim 5-22 Kerry 4-24 (final)
Top Scorers
Pádraig Boyle……………3-64 (0-49 frees, 0-6 ‘65s’, 1-0 pen)
Shane Conway………….3-24(0-12 frees, 0-1 s/l)
Jordan Conway…………2-9
Maurice O’Connor……..4-1
Fionán Mackessy………..0-13
*This will be only the second championship game between the
counties, with the first being played in 1891 when Kerry, represented
by Ballyduff, beat Wexford, represented by Crossabeg (2-3 to 1-5
after extra-time) in the All-Ireland final. It was level at 1-1 each at
the end of normal time before 30 minutes were played in extra-time.
GAA HURLING ALL-IRELAND SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP 2022
LEINSTER
Round 1: Wexford 1-19 Galway 1-19; Kilkenny 5-23 Westmeath 1-19;
Dublin 1-20 Laois 2-15.
Round 2: Galway 3-36 Westmeath 1-17; Kilkenny 2-34 Laois 1-14;
Dublin 0-24 Wexford 0-23.
Round 3: Wexford 6-21 Laois 0-12; Galway 1-24 Kilkenny 3-17;
Dublin 0-27 Westmeath 1-16
Round 4: Kilkenny 3-25 Dublin 0-17; Galway 2-37 Laois 0-21;
Westmeath 2-15 Wexford 0-21.
Round 5: Wexford 1-22 Kilkenny 1-18; Galway 0-27 Dublin 0-21;
Westmeath 5-24 Laois 1-18.
Final: Kilkenny 0-22 Galway 0-17
MUNSTER
Round 1: April 17: Waterford 2-24 Tipperary 2-20; Limerick 2-25 Cork
1-17.
Round 2: Limerick 0-30 Waterford 2-21; Clare 3-21 Tipperary 2-16
Round 3: Clare 0-28 Cork 2-20; Limerick 3-21Tipperary 0-23.
Round 4: Clare 0-24 Limerick 1-21; Cork 2-22 Waterford 1-19
Round 5: Clare 3-31 Waterford 2-22; Cork 3-30 Tipperary 1-24
Final: Limerick 1-29 Clare 0-29
JOE McDONAGH CUP
Round 1: Antrim 3-22 Offaly 2-24; Down 1-19 Kerry 0-18; Carlow 4-
30 Meath 0-17.
Round 2: Kerry 3-21 Carlow 0-15; Offaly 2-22 Meath 0-19; Antrim 6-
22 Down 3-16.
Round 3: Kerry 6-25 Meath 0-13; Antrim 2-22 Carlow 1-22; Offaly 1-
26 Down 2-18
Round 4: Carlow 2-25 Down 1-19; Offaly 4-23 Kerry 2-28 Antrim 7-29
Meath 3-14.
Round 5: Kerry 0-29 Antrim 2-21; Carlow 0-22 Offaly 0-17; Down 2-
28 Meath 2-19.
Final: Antrim 5-22 Kerry 4-24
ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
June 11: Preliminary Quarter-Finals: Antrim v Cork; Kerry v Wexford.
June 18: Quarter-Finals: Clare and Galway v preliminary quarter-final
winners.
July 2/3: Semi-finals
July 17: Final