Louth hurling team named to face the Westerners

Louth senior hurling manager, Trevor Hilliard, has named his 26-man team to play top-of-the-table Mayo in Round Three of the Nickey Rackard Cup, at Hastings Insurance McHale Park, Castlebar on Saturday afternoon at 3.00pm.

Hilliard makes a couple of changes from the side that defeated Fermanagh 3-20 to 0-15 at St. Brigid's Park, Dowdallshill last weekend. Thomas McCreesh and Adam Plunkett come in to replace Sean Hodgins and Mark Gahan.

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The Louth team has been named as: 1. Conor Clancy (c); 2. John Casey, 3. Conor Quigley, 4. Stephen Kettle; 5. Adam Plunkett, 6. Leon Fox, 7. Aaron McGuinness; 8. Ben Goss-Kieran, 9. Conor Murphy; 10. Paddy Lynch, 11. Thomas McCreesh, 12. Peter Fortune 13. Darren Geoghegan; 14. Seán Flynn, 15. Brian Corocoran.