Wellington Rec take the points in theirgame in hand

However they remain in third place, with a goal difference of +11 as opposed to +19; each team having 7 games left to play.

Millbrookers manager Stephen Donald said: “We’re grinding out results; it was a good battling performance on a small pitch and horrendous surface: every match is like a cup final. Bloomfield, the only team to beat us at home in the league, needed the points and they’re running out of games.”

But what can you say about Wellington’s stand in keeper, 3 games and 3 clean sheets from Andy Waide, although next Saturday he should be back in more familiar pastures, as David Harrison returns from suspension. Wellington could have had more goals, with Stuart Hilditch banging one against the post, and the keeper superbly depriving Josh Mannis. Instead it was left to Michael Moore to do the needful 20 minutes from time.

There was also just one goal in it as Larne Tech went down 2-3 to East Belfast at Dennis Harvey Park.

Assistant manager Steven Adair was far from happy about a couple of decisions, “I know how hard it is for referees, but there was a blatant hand ball before East’s first and their 91st minute winner was yards offside. I really feel for our boys, they worked their socks off and deserved at least a point if not all three. East had been the best team we had played but here we matched them all over the park and, if I’m being honest, we played the better football.”

Headed efforts from Gary Montgomery and Aaron Mulvenna overturned that contentious East opener and it looked set for a point a piece, before that disputed late winner. Barn could count themselves a little unlucky as they had they gale and hailstones to their advantage while they tried to claw back Rathfriland’s two goal interval lead, only for Rangers to break away for a third just before the close. Arron Anderson was the Barn marksman.