Laois U-20 hurling team named for Leinster preliminary quarter-final against Kildare
The sides will meet in Cedral St Conleth's Park, Newbridge on Wednesday evening
Laois U-20 hurling manager Derek Delaney has revealed his starting 15 and substitutes for Wednesday evening's preliminary quarter-final versus Kildare in this year's O’Neills.com Leinster U20 Hurling Championship.
Delaney's Laois team come into the game against Kildare having been beaten by both Galway and Offaly in Tier 1 of the competition. Kildare finished top of their group in Tier 2 with victories over Carlow and Kerry. The winner will have a home quarter-final against Wexford on Monday, May 5.
LAOIS: Brochan O’Reilly (Portlaoise); Rory Kelly (Castletown), Ciaran Flynn (The Harps), Joseph Pearson (Clough/Ballacolla); Cormac Hogan (Clough-Ballacolla), Tom Cuddy (Camross), Cian Hill (St Fintan’s Mountrath); Eoghan Cuddy (Camross), Ross Deegan (The Harps); Kevin Byrne (Camross), Ruaidhri Kavanagh (Trumera), Rick Bannon (Camross); Cormac Byrne (Abbeyleix St Lazarian's), Ben Deegan (Camross), Jer Quinlan (Borris-Kilcotton).
Subs: Peter Rafter (Clough-Ballacolla), Justin Duggan (The Harps), Kyron Cuddy (Castletown), Jack Breen (Castletown), Oran Gorman (Rosenallis), Evan Cassin (Clough-Ballacolla), Conor Mortimer (Camross), Donal Deegan (The Harps), Patrick O’Callaghan (Clonad).
Extended Panel: Mark Downey (The Harps), Eli Quinn (Abbeyleix St Lazarian's), Enda Shortall (Park-Ratheniska Timahoe), Hugh Whelan (The Harps), Stephen O’Donnell (Abbeyleix St Lazarian's), Shane Walsh (Portlaoise), Cormac Dunne (The Harps), Raymond Goode (Castletown), Ciaran Coss (Borris-Kilcotton), Sam Somers (Rosenallis), Eoghan Murphy (The Harps), Thomas Brennan (Clough-Ballacolla).
Laois and Kildare will throw-in at 7.30pm on Wednesday, April 23. The game will be live-streamed on Sport TG4's YouTube channel while tickets for the game can be bought here.