In-demand students out to dethrone champs

ALL WEEK, John Grainger has been making the calls in an effort to ensure the band of UCC hurlers will assemble in Midleton tomorrow night for the quarter-final of the Cork County SHC.

Predictably, the college manager has had a difficult task. Third-level hurlers are permanently in demand, their schedules piled high with fixtures and teams requesting their services.

So when UCC take to the field in Clonmult Park tomorrow night, some of their members will already have been through the rigours of competitive action. This afternoon, Aidan Harte plays midfield for the Galway U21 hurlers in Thurles, while Michael Cahill plays left half-back for the Tipperary U21 hurlers in Mullingar.