Limerick host Cork in Under-20 Hurling Championship

Limerick Under-20 captain Fintan Fitzgerald (right) with Mungret St. Paul's club mates Seán Duff and Mark O'Brien. Photo: Mungret St Paul's/Facebook.

THERE are a couple of changes in the Limerick team to face Cork in the Munster Under-20 Hurling Championship at the Gaelic Grounds on this Wednesday (7.30pm).

On the back of recent good form in the drawn fixture away to Waterford, manager Evan Loftus has drafted Dara Ferland and Mark O’Brien into his starting selection.

It’s a crucial fixture for both sides.

Limerick: Fionn O’Brien; John Murray (Patrickswell), Seán Casey (Bruff), Dan Scully (Dromin Athlacca); Jack Cosgrave (Ahane), Aidan O’Connell (Doon), Darragh Langan (Monaleen); Matthew Fitzgerald (Monaleen), James Finn (Na Piarsaigh); Robert O’Farrell (Kildimo Pallaskenry), Dara Ferland (Monaleen), Hugh Flanagan (Garryspillane); Mark O’Brien (Mungret St Paul’s), Donal Coughlan (Doon), Fintan Fitzgerald, captain, (Mungret St Paul’s).

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Substitutes: Pierce Connery (Kilmallock), Barry Adams (Ballybrown), Tádgh Boddy (Dromin Athlacca), Conor Bickford (Ahane), Seán Duff (Mungret St Paul’s), Darren Frewan (Glenroe), Diarmuid Hurley (Hospital Herbertstown), Ruairi O’Connor (Feenagh Kilmeedy), Owen Meaney (Bruff).

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