Conway’ s master class for Kerry

KERRY are through to the All-Ireland U-21 ‘B’ hurling final following a victory over Meath at Semple Stadium on Saturday and they now face Wicklow on September 9.

Meath struggled against a well-drilled and physically superior Kerry outfit, who opened the scoring through Shane Conway.

Meath’s Conor Kearney responded and Kerry’s Michael O’Leary exchanged points before Eoin Mac Donncha had the ball in the Kerry net.

The Royals kept their nose in front until Kerry started to find their range through O’Leary and two Conway points as they raced to a 0-11 to 1-4 half-time lead.

Kerry continued to pile on the pressure, with Eoin Ross pointing from distance to stretch the lead to 0-17 to 1-9 by the 40th minute.

The closing quarter saw both sides empty their benches, but it was Kerry who continued to maintain momentum and increased the gap to 0-21 to 1-8, before John Hussey’s injury-time goal poured more agony on Meath.

S Conway 0-10 (6f ‘65’), M O‘Leary 0-6, E Ross 0-3, J Hussey 1-0, B O’Sullivan, T O’Connor, J Buckley, R Donovan 0-1 each

E Mac Donncha 1-1 C Kearney 0-4 (3f) P Farrell, R Ryan, D Kelly, M Slevin 0-1 each

C Ennis, C McNally, I Hughes, R Ryan; P Slevin, D Kelly J McCluskey, L Moran, M Slevin,J Wall, E Mac Donncha 1-1, C Kearney; R Ryan, M Cullen, S O’Hanrahan. J. McNally for C McNally half-time, P Farrell for Kearney 42 mins, DBrogan for M Slevin 50m, S Gibbons for Wall 60m, B Rickard for Cullen 62m.

S Murphy; S O’Sullivan, D Shanahan, B Lyons; E Ross, J Diggins, L Mullins; B O’Sullivan, T O’Connor; J Buckley, M O’Lear, J Brick; M O’Connor, S. Conwa, R Donovan. B Barrett for Brick 42 mins, J Lenihan for 46m, A O’Mahony for Lyons, D Ryan for M O’Connor both 58m, J Hussey (1-0) for Buckley 60m.

T Carroll (Offaly).