SKY BLUES' WINNING STREAK CONTINUES
Ballymena United clocked up their fourth successive league win in a row with victory over Carrick Rangers at Taylors Avenue.
The Sky Blues moved in front as early as the second minute when Daithi McCallion knocked Josh Carson's free-kick back across the face of goal for Aaron Jarvis to score from close range.
Then, after a quarter-of-an-hour, Daniel Lafferty doubled up with a superb curling left-foot drive from just outside the area into the bottom corner after a Carson corner wasn't cleared.
Rangers pulled one back just before the hour. A Kyle Cherry corner wasn't properly dealt with by the visiting defence, with the ball fall for Steven Gordon to smash home from eight yards.
Both sides hit the woodwork as the second half progressed, with Ben Kennedy seeing an effort touched onto the crossbar by Ross Glendinning while, at the other end, a Paul Heatley shot from an acute angle met a similar fate.
But Ballymena made sure of the points with two penalties in stoppage time, both converted by Kennedy.
His first, on 91 minutes, was awarded after Josh Andrews was adjudged to have used his arm to block a Carson effort while, five minutes after that, Gordon was penalised after upending Jarvis in the box.
Carrick Rangers: Ross Glendinning, Forsythe, Stewart, Surgenor, Gordon, McGuckin, Buchanan-Rolleston, Clucas, Cherry, Heatley, Reece Glendinning subs McCauley, Allen, Maciulaitis, Kalla, Andrews, Given, Tilney
Ballymena United: O'Neill, Nelson, Lafferty, Rocks, Jarvis, Kennedy, Scott, McCurry, McCallion, McMurray, Carson subs Johnston, Gawne, Moore, O'Donnell, Brown, Devine, Devlin
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