Offaly 3-8 Wexford 2-13
Wexford defeat Offaly in Leinster Minor hurling championship encounter in Tullamore today!
Our Young Minor Wexford Hurling Team rose to a very difficult challenge today in taken on a very good Offaly side on there home turf and beating the Faithfuls by 2 points.Buffers Alley and Wexford Captain Andrew Kenny kicked off Wexford’s score line and went on to score 1-6 in total. A second point came from Corner Forward Tony French who went on to score 5 points in total and a 3rd score came from Captain Kenney just before Offaly went on a first half scoring spree hitting the net twice and Wexford found themselves 5 points behind with 17 minutes gone.But with a determined Wexford side and a on form Tony French who answered this by taking advantage of a mistake in the Offaly full back line and reducing the score line by two points approaching half time.With a never give up attitude from the Wexford side they found them selfs level in the first 5 minutes and even when Offaly found the net for the 3rd time Wexford kept there composure and Andrew Kenny rattled the net to level proceedings and with 2 minutes to go in a nail biting finish thanks to Coner McDonald and Tony French Wexford signed off on their first round championship game with a 2 point victory. Wexford Minor Captain and our top scorer with 1-06, Andrew Kenny said after the game that it was ” a hard fought game and we’re delighted with the win. There is still a lot to improve on but it is always easier to improve when you win your first game!” Wexford now face Dublin in two weeks’ time.
The Wexford team was as follows:
1 Oliver o leary, 2 sean doyle, 3 sean murphy, 4 eoin conroy, 5liam ryan, 6 andrew kenny, 7colin heffernan, 8 james cash. 9 Sean kenny, 10 kevin foley, 11 jack o coner 12 conor devitt, 13 jordan broaders, 14 conor mcdonald, 15 tony french
Scorers: Andrew Kenny 1-6, Jordan Broaders 1-1,Tony French 0-5, Sean Kenny 0-1
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