United young guns are on top form

The under 13’s fell to an uncharacteristic defeat while the under 14’s and 15’s games were called off due to the weather.The under 12’s made their early morning trip to Lisburn but to no avail as opponents Donegal Celtic disappointingly failed to appear.

The 12’s are back in action this Wednesday at the Showgrounds in the last 16 of the NI cup against Ardoyne with a 7.30pm start.

BUYA U10 4 Dungoyne U10 0: Ballymena started off as usual, strong and raring to go,having the majority possession early on. Matthew Lorimer soon fired the ball across the goal mouth, Ben Wylie came in at the far post to stick out a leg to guide the ball home.

The lead was doubled shortly after this with once again Matthew Lorimer getting the best of Dungoyne defenders and taking a great shot from a wide angle putting the ball in the top corner.

Ballymena once again came out strong from the start of the second half with more enterprising play through the middle seeing a great defencee splitting pass land to the feet of Jamie Stewart who took a few steps forward and placed the ball well into the bottom corner.Within a minute he dayanother great run down the wing from Matthew Lorimer who cut in from the wide area to take a shot, the keeper saved,however the ball fell kindly to Jamie Stewart who again finished well. In the end United’s football won the day over the physical Dungoyne boys.

BUYA U11 6 Lurgan Youth U11 2: It was Lurgan again on Saturday for the u11’s, this time in the league.But it wasn’t to be the same start with some very slow defending giving the Lurgan boys too many chances. Within 15 mins ballymena were 2-0 down and seemed to be going nowhere, but In the last minute of the first half United won their first corner,swung in by Lee O’Brien,with Jordan critcher able to follow home.The second half was like night and day for the Wee Skies after a few changes were made and they were immediately rewarded for their efforts when Lee O’Brien was set free from a Jack Heron clearance. Some excellent defending from Fleming and Apsley made it possible for O’Brien to set of on a super mazy run making the

score 3-2.

A further O’Brien goal and an unfortunate own goal saw the Lurgan boys silenced at 5-2. It’s was Danny Louw who scored the goal of the match with a shot from 30 yards which even had the Lurgan supporters clapping. MOM Michael O’Neill