KILDARE SHC FINAL/Celbridge 2-16 Confey 0-15:GOALS FROM Mark Moloney and Conor Kenny inside the opening seven minutes set Celbridge on their way to their third Kildare hurling championship title in a row in Newbridge yesterday.
Following the two quickfire goals, the steady free taking of Paul Divilly brought Confey right back into the game but his team still trailed Celbridge 2-5 to 0-10 at half time.
Confey had an early chance to level the scores after the restart but once Divilly put his long range effort wide, Celbridge scored four points in a row and never looked likely to lose the game, running out winners by seven points.
CELBRIDGE: N Lanigan; T Finnerty, F OMuineacháin, P Curtin; A McDonagh, D Moloney, N OMuineacháin; D Butler (0-1), B White (0-8, 0-7 frees, 0-1 65); M Moloney (1-0), F Conway, C Kenny (1-3), L Quinn (0-1), T Murphy, J Houlihan (0-1). Subs: G Keegan (0-2) for Butler (51 mins), P Moore for M Moloney (55 mins), D Kirwan for White, K Bracken for Curtin, D Kenny for Finnerty (all 60 mins).
CONFEY: R Connolly; A Fennelly, Paul Keegan, B Dowd; S Lawless, N Glennon, K Chan (0-1); M Divilly (0-10, 0-9 frees), K Divilly (0-2, 0-1 pen); P Divilly, C Feeney (0-1), C Chan; Pauric Keegan, J ONeill, E Fitzpatrick. Subs: I Baker for Connolly (30 mins), D Nolan (0-1) for C Chan (38 mins), P Quigley for M Divilly (59 mins).
