Carniny Youth under-12 put on Lord Mayor’s show!

The young lads put in a great team peformance with goals from Joshua Courtney and Conor Stewart helping them on the way to lifting the silverware.

It was a fitting way for the boys to wrap up their season before taking a short break to prepare for the Foyle Cup at the end of July.

Elsewhere for the club, the Under 8s, 9s and 10s fielded teams up in Coleraine at the Eakin 5 aside tournament.

Meanwhile the 14s had a disappointing week with defeats to Glentoran and St Oliver Plunkets in the league and cup respectively whilst Linfield proved too strong for the 13s in their last league game of the season.

The Under 11s were ejoying the warmth and sunshine of Portugal last week playing local teams including a Benfica Academy side. Full reports next week on their return when they also have a Lisburn Youth League Cup Final to look forward to joining the Under 9s who also have a cup final up in the North West.

UNDER 12

Carniny Youth 2, Ards Rangers 0: This was the showpiece game of the season at Wilgar park and it definitely lived up to expectations.

Both teams started very edgy and nervous with misplaced passes and scrappy football.

The dead lock was soon opened when Neeson powered down the line to cross into the box for Stewart to control and roll the ball between two defenders for Joshua Courtney to tap home at the back post.

Carniny looked to have doubled their lead when Campbell hit a long clearance which Conor Stewart took well and lobbed the Ards keeper only for the ball to be cleared off the line.

Ards thought they had equalised when Parker made a mistake and let in the Ards striker who could only hit the post after heavy pressure from Isiah Close.

Finally with 10 mins left the tie was killed off when O’Boyle fed the ball through to Conor Stewart who weaved through two challenges then side stepped the keeper to slot home.

With only mins remaining Carniny stroked the ball about calmly to see out the game with the final whistle blew to spark wild celebrations from Carniny and their travelling fans. Special mention goes to Mark Winter on his man of the match performance.

Carniny: Parker, Ervine, Close, Winter, Campbell, Kirk, Courtney, Archer, Gordon, Neeson, O’Boyle, Stewart, G Logan.

CLUB CONTACTS

As always Carniny are always on the look out for new players, junior or senior anyone interested in joining the club should use the following contact numbers. Coaching enquiries are also welcome and all coaches will be progressed through the IFA Coaching structure.

2009 to 2006 Davy Boyd, 07803974402, 2005 Niall Greer, 2004 - Davy Hanna 07791297755, 2003 - Jonny Wilson 07704550454, 2002 - Jason Hunter 07885899290, 2001-Davy Parker 07835020446, 2000 - Davy Leetch 07732808858, 1999 - Andy McClean 07814038368, 1998 - Billy O’Flaherty 07850669666.