Big weekend for underage hurling in Waterford

It’s the last weekend of Waterford, so that can mean just one thing, its time for the annual Tony Forristal and Sony Walsh Under 14 Inter County Hurling tournaments to take place in Waterford City.

It’s hard to believe that this is the 33^rd running of this tournament. From a small beginning it has grown and grown over the years, and while a decision was taken some years back to cut the number of counties that visit Waterford each August, it still remains to be one of the best run competitions in all of Ireland, with the most of the strongest counties each year sending two teams to take part, meaning that almost 50 of each counties best up and coming hurlers will taste competitive inter county hurling for the first time.

Some of the best players that have graced hurling fields over the past 30 years or so have taken part in this years competition, and this years competition is expected to have a number of players take part that will become house hold names in the years to come.

Four venues will be used for the league section of this years competition. Games in group’s A and B of Division one as always are set to take place at the splendid Mount Sion Club Grounds, while games in group C and D will take place at the Saint Saviours grounds.

The games in Division two will see group A will take place at the Erin’s Own grounds in Poleberry while group B and C games will take place at the De La Salle grounds in Gracedieu.

The semi finals in Division one will see one game take place at Mount Sion with the other in Saint Saviours, while the Division two semi final involving the group B and C winners clash at the De La Salle venue.

Both the Division One (Tony Forristal) and Division Two (Sony Walsh) finals are fixed for Walsh Park on Saturday evening. The Division two final is penciled in for a 5-40pm start with the Division One final scheduled to start sixty-five minutes later.

FIXTURES:

Division 1 – Group A and B

Laois                          V         Cork                            10am            Mount Sion

Waterford                   V         Offaly                         10-50am        Mount Sion

Laois                          V         Dublin                         11-40am        Mount Sion

Galway                       V         Offaly                         12-30pm        Mount Sion

Cork                            V         Dublin                       1-20pm           Mount Sion

Waterford                   V         Galway                       2-10pm          Mount Sion

Group A Winner       V         Group B Winner           3-50pm           Mount Sion

Division 1 – Group C and D

Clare                          V         Antrim                        10am              Saint Saviours

Limerick                     V         Kilkenny                    10-50am         Saint Saviours

Antrim                        V         Tipperary                   11-40am        Saint Saviours

Limerick                     V         Wexford                     12-30pm        Saint Saviours

Clare                          V         Tipperary                   1-20pm           Saint Saviours

Kilkenny                    V         Wexford                      2-10pm           Saint Saviours

Group C Winner       V         Group B Winner          3-50pm           Saint Saviours

 

Division 2 – Group A

Wexford                     V         Dublin                                    10am              Erin’s Own

Kilkenny                    V         Cork                                        10-50am        Erin’s Own

Wexford                     V         Kilkenny                                 12-20pm        Erin’s Own

Cork                            V         Dublin                                    1-10pm           Erin’s Own

Wexford                     V         Cork                                       2-40pm           Erin’s Own

Kilkenny                    V         Dublin                                    3-40pm           Erin’s Own

 

Division 2 – Group B

Tipperary                   V         Waterford                   10am              De La Salle

Tipperary                   V         Kerry                           11-40am        De La Salle

Kerry                           V         Waterford                   1-20pm           De La Salle

Group B Winner       V         Groups C Winner          3-40pm           De La Salle

 

Division 2 Group C

Clare                          V         Limerick                     10-50am        De La Salle

Clare                          V         Galway                       12-30pm        De La Salle

Limerick                     V         Galway                       2-10pm           De La Salle

Group B Winner       V         Groups C Winner         3-40pm           De La Salle

 

Sony Walsh Final – Division Two                         5-40pm           Walsh Park

Tony Forristal Final – Division One                      6-45pm           Walsh Park