Under 21 hurling championship quarter final played in Ballinasloe on Sunday November 11th
Kilnadeema/Leitrim 4.12  Padraig Pearses 0.17
If Kilnadeema/Leitrim under-21 team are going to go all the way and finally bring home an Under-21 title in 2007, then they are certainly going about it the hard way as they proved when going all the way to extra time in their quarter final victory over Padraig Pearses on Sunday November 11th in Duggan Park, Ballinasloe, before finally reaching another county semi-final against Moycullen. Having already having to go to two games to defeat Kilbeacanty in the previous round, this will certainly be a battle hardened team. Former county minor star Jimmy Glisten opened the scoring in the 2nd minute from a free before Sean Burke replyed five minutes later with a point from play from out near midfield. Damien Wynne soon had Padraig Pearses back in front again with another point from play. The game had many twists and turns throughout and the first arrived after twelve minutes when Shane O'Looney got on the end of a long Fergal Nevin delivery to flick the ball into the net to open up a two point lead. A Minute later Fergal Nevin, who was beginning to dominate at centre half forward pointed a great score after a good pass from Padraig McLoughlin. Sean Burke with two pointed free's on the 14th and 16th minutes soon had Kilnadeema/Leitrim 1.04 to 0.02 in front. Thomas Barrett increased the lead with another point from play a minute later and were seven points between the sides soon after when Fergal Nevin pointed a long range score after a great build up involving Liam Geargthy, Ruairi Costello and Brian Gardiner. Jimmy Glisten with a point from play on 19 minutes finally got Padraig Pearses their first score in 16 minutes. Sean Burke soon cancelled out that point with another pointed free. Thomas Flannery now took over the free taking for Padraig Pearses and added their fourth point on 25 minutes. His team finally started to get it together at this stage and added two more points before half time from Jimmy Glisten and Michael Ruane to leave the half time score reading 1.07 to 0.06. With Padraig Pearses to have the use of the breeze in the second half it was going to be anybody's game, and they made a brilliant start with three unanswered points inside five minutes from Thomas Flannery with two and Niall Skehill to leave just one point between the sides. Kilnadeema/Leitrim, who were struggling to stay in the game got another real break on 12 minutes when Ruairi Costello goaled after a Sean Burke free was blocked down when a point looked certain. This gave the team a big lift again and they soon were stretching their lead with points from Sean Burke and Shane O'Looney, both from play. It was now that Padraig Pearses really put it up to Kilnadeema/Leitrim and shot three unanswered points by the 20th minute, two from lively full forward Emmet Ward and one from Michael Ruane to close the gap to three 2.09 to 0.12. A Minute later the game really turned in their favour when after Mark Herlihy made a great save to stop a certain point the ball spun out of his grasp and suddenly Niall Skehill had the simple task of a tap in goal to level up the game on 21 minutes. Padraig Pearses could now since the winning line and soon found themselves three points in front following points from Damien Wynne and two from the impressive Emmet Ward. With time almost up it looked all over for Kilnadeema/Leitrim but Shane O'Looney had other idea's as he sidestepped three challenges before laying on a great pass to Sean Burke who crashed home the equalising goal in injury time to save the day and force extra time on a score line of 3.09 to 1.15. Kilnadeema/leitrim got a new lease of life in extra time and soon were in complete control. First Sean Burke pointed from play before we saw a brilliant goal from substitute Eoin O'Toole on 3 minutes. Sean Burke with a 65 and Eoin Larkin with a mighty point from near the sideline left six between the sides at half time. it was a big lead at this stage and Padraig Pearses needed a great start which they nave got. The best they could do was score two Shane Rafferty points from 21 yard free's as soon time ran out and Kilnadeema/Leitrim's dream lived on for another day on a final score line of 4.12 to 0.17. This was a great game for this time of year and sets us up nicely for a semi final battle with West Galway team Moycullen, who will be very fit and strong runners at this time of year.

Scorers: Sean Burke 1.07, Shane O'Looney 1.01, Eoin O'Toole 1.00, Ruairi Costello 1.00, Fergal Nevin 0.02, Eoin Larkin 0.01, Thomas Barrett 0.01.
Team Lineout: Mark Herlihy, Kevin Kelly, Patrick Deely, Michael Hedderman, Gearoid Whelan, Liam Geargthy , Padraig McLoughlin, , Sean Burke, Brian Gardiner,   Tomas Barrett, Fergal Nevin, Ian Burns, Eoin Larkin,  Ruairi Costello, Shane O'Looney.
Subs used, Eoin O'Toole, Michael McLoughlin.