Senior hurlers set to face Carlow in Walsh Cup action

Fri, 3rd January 2020

Dublin's hurlers face Carlow this Sunday in their second Walsh Cup game in Parnell Park (2.0).

The Dubs opened their Walsh Cup campaign with a comfortable eight-point victory (1-22 to 0-17) over Westmeath in Cusack Park, Mullingar before Christmas.

Mattie Kenny's men started slowly and trailed 0-2 to 0-5 inside the opening ten minutes, with Niall Mitchell and the impressive Eoin Price both hitting 0-2, but soon got into their stride with Lorcan McMullan, making his Dublin debut, doing well at centrefield.

Two Oisín O’Rorke frees and a point from play from Donal Burke brought the sides level before Aidan Mellett grabbed the game’s only goal in the 15 minute following some good interplay between Oisín O'Rorke, Lorcan McMullan and Ronan Hayes for Ballyboden St Enda's Mellett to find the net.

Dublin struck the next four points with Mark Schutte, Davy Keogh, Loran McMullan and the influential Donal Burke (who tallied 0-8, 0-3f overall) all on target, making it 1-7 without reply, to open up a 1-9 to 0-5 advantage.

The Dubs put in a strong finish to the opening half with further scores from Oisín O’Rorke (two, one free), Donal Burke (two, one free) and two from Loran McMullan to lead 1-15 to 0-9 at the interval.

Carlow have been beaten by both Westmeath (2-12 to 0-14) and Laois (3-19 to 0-22) in their two games to date in the competition.

Next Thursday the Dubs host Laois in Parnell Park (7.45) in their rescheduled game.

The winner of the round-robin phase will progress to face Galway in their semi-final.

Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Dublin footballers will face Longford in the O'Byrne Cup semi-final on Saturday, January 11 in Pearse Park, Longford (2.0).