Tipperary 0-20 Wexford 0-19 Eanna Murray was the Tipperary hero after his 76th minute point secured an extra-time victory over Wexford in yesterday's ESB All-Ireland MHC quarter-final at Portlaoise. Despite playing most of the second half with 14 players after their corner forward Michael O'Brien was sent off on a second yellow card, the beaten Munster finalists forced extra-time thanks to a late point from centre back Brian Stapleton. There had been little to separate the sides throughout normal-time with Tom Dempsey's Wexford holding a slender 0-7 to 0-6 interval lead. A Jack Hobbs point within seconds of the start of the extra-time helped the Leinster runners-up to a two-point advantage, but a brace of Murray scores restored parity for Tipp before his point four minutes from the end sealed their place in the last-four. Tipperary - P Ryan; S Maher, L Butler, J Meagher; W Ryan, B Stapleton (0-1), A Hogan (0-1); D Maher (0-2), A Cleere (0-1); R Gleeson (0-1), S Curran (0-2), E Murray (0-9, 5f 1'65); D Collins, T Butler (0-2), M O'Brien (0-1). Subs - D Butler for Collins, J Forde for Cleere, J Condon for T Butler, P Heffernan for Gleeson, R Gleeson as 15th man in extra time, A Ryan for Maher. Wexford - M Fanning; W Devereux, M O'Hanlon, A Nolan; B Barron (0-1), C Goff (0-1), B O'Gorman; J Gordon, B Doyle (0-1); D O'Keeffe (0-5, 1sl), M O'Regan, L McGovern (0-2); E Whitmore, P Farrell, G Moore (0-6, 6f). Subs - C Clince for Devereux, C Doyle for Whitmore, A Kenny (0-2) for Farrell, J Hobbs (0-1) for O'Regan, I Byrne for O'Keeffe, M Moloney for Doyle, P Farrell for Moore. Ref - A Kelly (Galway) Tweet

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