Kenny rues missed chances

CORK hurler Tom Kenny says he and his teammates are focusing on the positives following their defeat by Wexford last weekend.

The Leesiders were widely expected to win and had an eight-point lead at one stage of the first-half but were eventually beaten by a point.

“It was very disappointing,” admitted Kenny. “We’d done well in the first-half and had a good lead but we probably fell asleep coming up to half-time and let them get three points in a row, which cut our lead. Then in the second-half they got a couple of points and the goal, and that lifted them and they drove on.”

Last Sunday was the third time Cork have lost a league game by the bare minimum, a point not lost on Kenny and his colleagues.

“That’s been the story of our league. We lost by a point to Kilkenny, to Waterford and then to Wexford, while we drew with Tipperary. One puck of a ball and we’d have a lot more points on the board.

“We should have closed it out against Waterford, though, and Sunday was a game we should have won as well.”

The Cork hurlers will fly out to Villamoura in Portugal for warm-weather training on Friday. They will spend four days in the resort and return for their final league clash with Dublin in Pairc Ui Chaoimh on April 17.