SECOND HALF GOALS SEE THE GLENS THROUGH
Glentoran booked a place in BetMcLean Cup semi-finals with a two-goal home defeat of Ballymena United.
Scoreless at the break, the Glens came closest on 37 minutes when Daniel Amos had a go with a curling right-foot effort against the angle of crossbar and post from the edge of the area.
United keeper Sean O'Neill was also called into action a little later in the half to deny Cammy Palmer as the home side enjoyed the majority of possession, albeit with nothing to show for it.
Ballymena looked a better proposition during the early stages of the second half as Joe Moore volleyed just wide from 20 yards with another similar effort not long after that meeting a similar fate.
However the deadlock was broken on 69 minutes in favour of the home side when Jordan Jenkins unleashed a terrific effort from outside the area past O'Neill into the bottom corner.
And the game was effectively killed off as a contest with around five minutes remaining after David Fisher made the most of a defensive slip up to blast Glentoran's second of the evening past O'Neill.
The Glens will host Crusaders in the last four next Tuesday night (14th) at the BetMcLean Oval, kick-off 7.45pm.
Glentoran: Gyollai, Lyons-Foster, Sule, Connolly, Palmer, McEleney, Fisher, Amos, Singleton, Russell, Jenkins subs Mills, Donnelly, Aouachria, Murphy, Lindsay, Pattison, Thorndike
Ballymena United: O'Neill, Nelson, Rocks, Gawne, Jarvis, Kennedy, Loughran, McCallion, McMurray, McEleney, Carson subs Stewart, Moore, Scott, O'Donnell, O'Mahony, Hawe, Hood
