Carniny Youth work brings silverware at adult level

What makes this achievement even sweeter is the fact that 11 of the squad of 15 players all started as 10-year-olds with the club during its formation in the year 2000.

Meanwhile in the youth section, the 16s drew 2-2 against top of the table Ballyclare Colts in the National League as the 15s went down 3-0 away to Dungannon Swifts in the same elite league competition.

The 14s travelled to Fermanagh to take on Ballinamallard and came away with maximum points following a 3-2 victory, while the 13s will feel somewhat hard done by in going down 3-1 to Crusaders when a draw would have been a fair result.

As the 12s and 10s went down to Lisburn Youth and Crusaders respectively the 11’s defeated Bloomfield 4-3 and the 9s drew with Eglinton.

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Carniny 2, Eglinton 2: Carniny should have had three points when they gave up a two goal lead with only five minutes in the game to go.

Stewart opened the scoring from the penalty spot. This was followed by Hunter's fourth of the season after a fine solo run.

The game looked over but Eglinton managed to spoil Carniny’s celebrations with two late goals.

Carniny: Logan, Robinson, Young, Lamont, Farquhar, Stewart, White, Hunter, Gordon, Mearns.

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Carniny 0, Crusaders 11: This can only be put down to an experience for the Under 10's, but a special mention should go to Winter and (Jo) Logan who never gave up and battled for every ball right to the final whistle.

Carniny: Ja Logan, S Gaynor, S Clyde, M Kirk, A McMullan, J Campbell, Jo Logan, A Farquhar, S Hunter, C Stewart, D Archer, J Parker, C Gordon, R Ervine, J McQuillan.

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Carniny 4, Bloomfield 3: Carniny produced another great performance at sunny Cherryvale with Stewart continuing his run of scoring in every game so far with a hat trick.

K O'Boyle gave Carniny their fourth but Bloomfield made it tough pushing the reds right until the final whistle.

Carniny: Dobbin, Montgomery, Neilly, Marshall, Reid, O Brien, McHenry, Wylie, Lemon, Leetch, McDonnell, Young, O’Boyle K, O’Boyle A, Stewart, Downey, Smyth.

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Carniny 1, Lisburn Youth 6: The Reds started slowly and within 10 minutes found themselves 3 goals down but they did start to ask some questions of the Lisburn side and eventually got one back on 20mins when O’Mullan’s cross from the left was superbly met first time by Swann.

Just before half time, things looked like they were about to worsen for Carniny when Lisburn were awarded a penalty, but the spot kick was sent the wrong side of the post.

Early in the second half, Lisburn did score from a corner and they added two more goals.

Carniny: O’Neill, McComb, Evans, Houston, McGall, O’Mullan, Stewart, McNeill, Swann, Doherty, Keenan, Anderson, McGarry, Adams, Savage, Kilpatrick.

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Carniny 1, Crusaders 3: Crusaders opened the scoring when a long ball split the Carniny defence and the centre forward fired a fine shot into the roof of the net.

Carniny equalised when Fyfe scored with a superb free kick from the edge of the box after a foul on Shevlin.

The second half saw both teams play good football with Crusaders looking the more dangerous and they took the lead when their centre forward burst through the Carniny defence and scored with a low shot.

The Belfast side scored again in the last five minutes to put the game beyond Carniny.

Carniny: Marquess, McCullough, Ballantine, Weir, Rowe, Fyfe, Campbell, McDonnell, Mairs, Shevlin, Millar, Sharpe, Balmer, McKendry, Moore.

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Carniny 3, Ballinamallard 2: Ballinamallard hit first on 12mins as they broke through from midfield.

Cummings opened the score for Carniny 5 minutes later when his pace took him past the defender to strike a tremendous shot into the back of the net.

Calderwood put Carniny in front but against the run of play, 'Mallard equalised just before half time 2-2.

It was Carniny who claimed full points when Cummings hit his tenth goal of the season, a header, to make the long journey home more pleasurable for Carniny.

Carniny: Gillespie, Graham, McLean, McNiece, Pogue, Lemon, Nixon, Hughes, Agnew, Calderwood, Cummings, McMath, Scroggie

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Carniny 0, Dungannon United 3: Dungannon dominated the first 20 minutes and were gifted the first goal, but Carniny settled down and pthought they had equalised when a great strike from Beggs flashed inches over the bar. this however lifted the U15’s, as they upped the pace and took the game But it wasn’t to be, as the County Tyrone boys hit Carniny for another two, to seal the points.

Carniny: Holmes, Agnew, Johnston, McClure, Galloway, McComb, Watson, McCartney, Dunlop, Beggs, Rainey, Nixon.

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Carniny 2, Ballyclare Colts: The Reds got off to the worst possible start only 2mins into the game when a neat passing sequence by the East Antrim side saw them take the lead.

The second half saw Carniny attacking more and playing more in the Ballyclare half. Ballyclare however doubled their lead when they hit Carniny on the break down their left flank.

To their credit Carniny never gave up and continued to press the Ballyclare defence and with only 2mins to go Black pulled one back when he whipped in a super high curling shot to the keepers left.

Again Carniny attacked in the final minutes and earned a free kick from the left flank which Black also curled into the top left hand corner to give the reds a share of the points.

Carniny: Curry, Dunlop, White, Black, Todd, McAllister, McClenaghan, Carson, McKelvey, Armstrong, Apsley, Williamson, Millar, Reid, McClean.