Laois U-20 HC Final – Camross v The Harps
In O’Moore Park at 2pm
The Laois club hurling season will draw to a conclusion in O’Moore Park this afternoon when Camross and The Harps meet in the U-20 ‘A’ decider.
It’s a week later than originally fixed for – a postponement coming after the sad death of Patricia Cuddy in Camross, wife of Laois hurling legend Martin.
For The Harps it’s a chance to win a third title in a row at this grade for the first time in their history.
The only club to have such a distinction is, needless to say, Camross who achieved the feat in 1965-1967 in the first three years of the competition as well as a four-in-a-row from 2007 to 2010.
The Harps have had decent underage success over the years but this is a really fruitful era too and one that they hope will eventually lead to senior success.
They have a fine team here, led by the likes of Eoghan Murphy in defence and with Laois senior hurler Cody Comerford at centre-forward.
Corner-forward Justin Duggan is a real poacher, who hit 2-3 in the semi-final and 1-1 in last year’s decider while still a minor.
Bobby Murphy, Ciaran Flynn, Mark Downey are all impressive players too.
Indeed one of the main battles to watch out for is Cody Comerford up against his county senior colleague Tom Cuddy who will anchor the Camross defence.
Eoghan Cuddy, Kevin Byrne, James Cuddy, Aaron Carroll and free-scoring freetaker Ben Deegan are all quality operators too.
The sides drew 1-15 apiece when they met in the group stages three weeks ago. It should be tight again.
But Camross, who were corresponding minor champions three years ago, might be the ones to spoil The Harps history-making effort.
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