Comrades ease past Portstewart

THE BALLYCLARE Comrades juggernaut ploughed relentlessly on in Portstewart as Eddie Hill’s side recorded their ninth consecutive league win in Championship Two.

Adam Gray proved to be the hero with a double, while Chris Shimmon and Andy Simms extended their goal-a-game sequence in the emphatic 4-0 win.

Ballyclare Comrades: Flood; Reid, Pierce, Forsythe (Getty 69), Monteith; Agnew, McClurg (Earley 69), McGowan, Simms; Gray, Shimmon (Wilkinson 76). Subs not used: McClean, Hill.

On Saturday Comrades will be off to Ballymoney to take on promotion challengers, Glebe Rangers (3pm).

Full match report and reaction in this week’s Times. In shops on Wednesday.