Captains Rory Burke and Rory Kelly with referee Eamonn Furlong
It turned out to be a match to forget for the Laois U-20 hurlers as Galway destroyed them in Laois Hire O'Moore Park.
Here's who scored and who played in Saturday's contest.
SCORERS-- Galway: Rory Burke 1-9 (1-0 pen, 0-4 frees, 0-3 65's), Conor Lawless, Aaron Niland and Brian Callanan 0-3 each, Conor Gilligan, Cullen Killeen and Jason Rabbitte 0-2 each, Ryan O'Donnell, Paddy Mac Cárthaigh, Michael Burke, Donnacha Campbell and Colm Burke 0-1 each. Laois: Jer Quinlan 0-3 (0-1 free), Rick Bannon 0-2, Cormac Byrne, Ben Deegan (free), Eoghan Cuddy (free) 0-1 each.
GALWAY: Donagh Fahy; Seán Murphy, Ben O'Donovan, Conor Lawless; Ed O'Reilly, Jonah Donnellan, Gearóid King; Cullen Killen, Paddy Mac Cárthaigh; Jason Rabbitte, Rory Burke, Conor Gilligan; Ryan O'Donnell, Brian Callanan, Aaron Niland. Subs: Michael Burke for Niland and Donnacha Campbell for Killeen (Both 43 mins), Colm Burke for Gilligan (49 mins), Lorcan Heavey for O'Reilly (50 mins), Harry Holmes for O'Donnell (53 mins)
LAOIS: Brochan O’Reilly (Portlaoise); Rory Kelly (Castletown), Ciaran Flynn (The Harps), Oran Gorman (Rosenallis); Cormac Hogan (Clough-Ballacolla), Tom Cuddy (Camross), Joseph Pearson (Clough-Ballacolla); Eoghan Cuddy (Camross), Kevin Byrne (Camross); Cormac Byrne (Abbeyleix), Ben Deegan (Camross), Mark Downey (The Harps); Rick Bannon (Camross), Jer Quinlan (Borris-Kilcotton), Ruaidhri Kavanagh (Trumera). Subs: Evan Cassin (Clough-Ballacolla) for Downey (24 mins), Justin Duggan (The Harps) for Deegan and Ryan Peters (Castletown) for K Byrne (Both HT), Cian Hill (St Fintan's Mountrath) for Pearson (51 mins), Andrew McDonagh (Ballinakill) for Gorman (55 mins)
Referee: Eamonn Furlong (Wexford)
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