McLELLAN SPOT-KICK ENOUGH FOR THE WELDERS
HW Welders needed just one goal to defeat Ards at Clandeboye Park.
An evenly contested match throughout, Ards might have led at the break when Lee Newell was presented with an opportunity at the back post only to head just over.
However, what proved to be the only goal of the game arrived just after the hour when Michael McLellan stepped up to convert from the spot, awarded after Corai Quinn was adjudged to have handled Ewan McCoubrey's shot.
Ards: Shields, Greer, Scannell, Taggart, Gorman, Hunter, Arthur, Tipton, Quinn, Newell, McCart subs McCallum, Ruddy, Cafolla, Dougan, Miller, Steele, Keke
HW Welders: Mills, Patterson, McCarthy, O’Kane, Owens, Harris, McLellan, O’Connor, Kee, McCoubrey, Wilson subs Cassells, Gunn, McCloskey, McMurray, Barr, Toman, Agnew