Ballygunner 4-19 Kilruane MacDonaghs 0-14
In the end, it was a chastening 17-point defeat but there were no bowed heads in the Kilruane MacDonaghs camp.
The odds could hardly have been stacked against the newly-crowned Tipperary champions any more than what they were yesterday; travelling to play the reigning All-Ireland champions and the huge gulf in experience that came with that, it being their third successive weekend in action after a replayed county final and all the emotions that went with bridging a 37-year gap.
