No separating Kiladangan and Nenagh
Kiladangan 2-22
Nenagh Eire Og 2-22 (AET)
By Liam Hogan in Templederry
Starved of serious competitive fare at club level for the past two and a half months, hurling followers received the perfect tonic when eighty glorious minutes, as 46 scores failed to separate Kiladangan and Nenagh Eire Og in the North Tipperary Senior Hurling semi-final last Friday.
The teams will have to do it all again after Nenagh’s Michael Heffernan displayed nerves of steel to level matters with a 65 in the 80th minute after Alan Flynn look to provided the winner for Kiladangan two minutes earlier.
Heffernan’s leveller (his 11th point) was critical as the centre forward hadn’t the best of evenings from place balls. Wet conditions made accuracy difficult and Nenagh struck 23 wides over the eighty minutes and their followers might justifiably feel they should have won the game. But it takes two make a contest and Kiladangan (10 wides of their own) put paid to their under-dog tag to make a great game of it.
With David Sweeney and Ruairi Gleeson (still on the road to recovery from knee injuries), the list of absentees lengthened further with James Quigley becoming another injury casualty during the summer while Paul Flynn and Willie Connors were out of the country.
And if that’s wasn’t all, Darragh Egan limped off with a leg injury after only five minutes.
Nenagh weren't immune themselves with Pearse Morris out with a broken hand while Hugh Maloney started from the bench.
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