Mayo team announced for Nickey Rackard Cup third round fixture

Mayo senior hurling manager Ray Larkin and his selectors have named the team to face Louth in this weekend’s Nickey Rackard Cup round three game.

The line-up shows five changes to the team that started against Armagh last weekend.

In come Kevin Duffy (Ballina Stephenites), Mark Phillips, Eoin Ryan, Michael Farrell (all Ballyhaunis) and Evan Heraty (Moytura) in place of Bobby Douglas, Conor Murray, Sioman Thomas, Jason Coyne and Ryan Duffy.

David Kenny will again captain Mayo and Michael Connolly from Sligo will officiate the game, which has a 3 p.m. throw-in time at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, Castlebar, tomorrow afternoon (Saturday).

There will be live coverage on Midwest Radio with commentary from Michael D. McAndrew. Tickets for the encounter can be purchased on Ticketmaster.

The Mayo team in full is as follows: Kevin Duffy; Mark Phillips, Oisin Greally, Jack Trench; Eoghan Collins, Eoin Ryan, David Kenny; Daniel Huane, Evan Heraty; Liam Lavin, Cormac Phillips, Kieran McDermott; Shane Boland, Eoin Delaney, Michael Farrell.

The substitutes are: Bobby Douglas, Matthew Connor, Sioman Thomas, Luke Connor, Conor Murray, Jason Coyne, Ryan Duffy, Sean Mulroy, Brendan Sheridan, John Heraty, Ciaran Finn.

On the extended panel are: Luke Hurley, Ronan Fallon, Sean Kenny, Ryan Kilbane, Conal Hession, Joe Burke.