Carniny’s ‘young guns’ in seventh heaven after weekend victories

The Under 10 Amateurs also won with an identical scoreline against Coleraine with another hat trick from Timmy McClure and a Joshua Balmer brace.

The under 13s progressed in their National League KO Cup with a walkover against Sion Swifts, whilst the Under 12s made their exit at the Quarter Final stage of the NIBFA Cup to Magherafelt Sky Blues.

The U9 Amateurs lost out 2-3 against Coleraine whilst the U10 Youths lost to Limavady. The Under 15s lost out to neighbours BUFC YA by a single goal.

TEATIME LEAGUE RETURNS

The Spring session of the popular Carniny Youth-hosted Teatime League got under way on Friday evening with five invited teams of young people under nine years of age taking part in friendly competition on the 3G pitch at Ballymena Showgrounds.

Ballymena Youth Academy, Chimney Corner, Ballymoney Youth Academy and ‘host’ club Carniny put on a feast of football from some of the best youth set ups in the County. The initiative will continue throughout the month of March leading up to the start of the Ballymena Invitational Mini Soccer League in May.

EASTVILLE/BHOP SPONSORSHIP

Carniny Youth FC is indebted to George McKay of Eatsville/BHOP fast food outlet in Harryville for his generous sponsorship donation.

CLub secretary Billy O’Flaherty said the money will be put towards tracksuits for the under 16 team’s forthcoming trips as guests of Stoke City FC and also the Foyle Cup Youth Football Tournament.

Billy added: “Football in general is indebted to people like Mr McKay for their continued support especially in these difficult times when sponsorship is becoming harder and harder to get.”

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Carniny Youth 7, Ballymoney Utd YA 3: In a game played in gale-force winds, Ballymoney took the lead, only for Leon Graham to equalise with a 20-yard free kick.

Straight from the kick-off Ballymoeny went back in front but again, Carniny’s response was swift as Graham rifled home his second goal.

Carniny finished the first half in front after Conlin Neill hit the target.

Playing against the wind in the second half, Sam Magee shot home to put some daylight between the sides and Jack Kennedy then scored Carniny’s fifth in a one-on-one with the keeper after robbing a defender.

Ballymoney made it 5-3 but Jack Kennedy fired home Carniny’s sixth from a tight angle after Neill’s shot rebounded off the post and there was still time for Kennedy to nod home for his hat-trick from a Greer cross.

Carniny; Magee, Kennedy, Neill, Greer, Graham, Scott (CAPT), Courtney, Moody.

Carniny Amateurs 2, Coleraine Olympic 3: This was definitely the proverbial game of two halves for the young Under 9 Amateurs, who found themselves 3-0 adrift at the interval.

Some positional changes at half time and the introduction of Matthew Wylie seemed to settle the team and they pulled a goal back when Archie McGreevey found Cormac McMullan who finished well.

Shortly after McMullan turned provider this time tackling strong on the edge of the box he then passed to Archie McGreevy who scored to make it 3-2 but despite having efforts blocked, Carniny couldn’t fashion an equaliser.

Carniny: Strange, Douglas, McGreevey, K McMullan, Murray, McKee, C McMullan, Wylie.

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Carniny Amateurs 7, Coleraine Olympic 3: Carniny started on the attack and scored when Timothy McClure burst through and scored in the first minute. The pressure from Carniny paid off again when Millar and Balmer combined with Balmer scoring in the fifth minute.

Carniny’s third didn’t come until the 18th minute but it was worth waiting on when Paul O’Boyle unleashed a thirty yard shot when sailed into the top corner of the Coleraine’s net. Timothy McClure made the score 4-0 on 20 minutes.

In the second half Coleraine caught Carniny on the break and pulled a goal back but in the 35th minute Josh McPeake’s shot rebounded and Kiefer Porter fired home Carniny’s fifth goal.

Coleraine scored their second in the 36th minute but Timothy McClure scored his third playing on right side of midfield.

Coleraine scored their third on the 43rd minute but Carniny weren’t resting on their laurels and Joshua Balmer scored his second and Carniny’s seventh.

Carniny: McGrath, Murray, O’Boyle, McClure, Balmer, Farenden, Porter, Millar McPeake, Rainey. Great team performance.

Other result: Carniny Youth 0, Limavady Youth 5.

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Carniny Youth 2, Magherafelt Sky Blues 6: Carniny could not have started any worse when after 5 minutes they managed to put the ball in their own net.

Carniny were then hit with a sucker punch when after a bad back pass McNicholl tried to clear the ball and hit the Magherafelt striker to give him an easy finish. It went from bad to worse when after another mix up, Magherafelt got their third totally against the run of play.

Carniny started with more urgency but again Magherafelt punished Carniny on the break to make it 4-0.

Carniny finally got some reward from their pressure when Lynn scored with an excellent low drive into the corner and with pressure from a Mearns and Graffin Carniny forced an own goal to make it 4-2.

Just when it looked like Carniny were going to make a comeback they conceded two goals late on.

Carniny; McNicholl, Young, Farquhar, Lamont, White, Anderson, Hamilton, Mearns, Graffin, Lynn, Hunter, Moore, Simpson.

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Carniny Youth 0, Ridgeway Rovers 3: Carniny matched Ridgeway in the first half but were punished for failing to hit the taregt with chances.

Carniny: Reid, Houston, Henderson, Downey, Scullion, Marshall, McGarry, Daly, Lemon, Leetch, McDonnell, Young.

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Carniny Youth 0, BUYA 1: Despite having the majority of the possession, Carniny conceded the only goal when a free kick 30 yards out on the touchline was whipped into the box and came off the slick 3G surface and into the net.

Carniny: McClean, Campbell, Galbraith, McGall, McComb, O’Mullan, Hassan, Maybin, Houston, Keenan, Doherty, Adams, Ferris.