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BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR SPORTSEDITORKILKENNYOBSERVER.IE

Allianz Hurling League SemiFinal

UPMC Nowlan Park

Kilkenny 2-22

Cork 0-22 e nal will be staged at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Easter Sunday, April 9. Cork rolled into UPMC Nowlan Park with an unbeaten run to date in their league campaign, and many fancied the Leesiders to make the decider against e Treaty in early April, but those in black and amber clearly hadn’t read that script. e Cats came out of the traps quickly and opened the scoring with in the rst minute, Danesfort’s Richie Hogan splitting the posts, much to the delight of the home crowd. is was the former All-star’s rst start for his beloved county in almost 3 years.

Kilkenny set-up an Allianz National League Final clash with current AllIreland champions Limerick next week, following a welldeserved victory over Cork at UPMC Nowlan Park. e cliché, ‘goals win games’ was never truer and thanks to majors from Mossy Keoghan and rising star Billy Drennan, Derek Lyng will now prepare his charges for a crack at John Kiely’s Limerick machine as he aims to bring down the curtain on an encouraging rst Allianz league campaign as Cats manager.

Galmoy’s Billy Drennan who you’d think has been playing senior hurling for the last decade, then registered his rst two points of the day, in a