LIT’s late show breaks UCC hearts

Limerick IT 2-15 UCC 1-14: The permutations were many heading into this sink-or-swim contest for the hurlers of UCC. In the end, not one of them was relevant; UCC crashing out of the Fitzgibbon Cup at the group stages for a second successive year.

Ger Cunningham’s charges required at least a two-point win to ensure their place in the quarter-final draw at the expense of Davy Fitzgerald’s Limerick IT. Victory alone, however, proved beyond the home outfit yesterday, a David Dempsey goal on 56 minutes condemning UCC to their second defeat of the group stages.

Alan Cadogan’s goal four minutes earlier had put UCC into a 1-13 to 1-12 lead, but as they pushed forward in the closing stages in chase of the required margin of victory, gaps appeared at the back which the visitors exploited to devastating effect.