O'NEILL BAGS LARNE WINNER
Larne remained very much in the battle for second place with a narrow defeat of Ballymena United at The Showgrounds.
Jordan McMullan made it two goals in as many games for the Sky Blues when he opened the scoring after just eight minutes when he popped up at the back post to knock home Kian Corbally's free-kick.
However Tiarnan O'Connor levelled for the visitors after half-an-hour after stretching to get a toe to Jordan McEneff's low cross.
United might have regained the advantage just before the break only for Success Edogun to see his effort strike the post before travelling along the face of goal and being cleared.
But it fell to the defending league champions to move in front midway through the second half after Paul O'Neill kept his composure to beat Sean O'Neill after the ball dropped for him from Olatunde Bayode's skewed attempt.
Ballymena might have equalised in stoppage time only for Ben Kennedy's close range finish to be ruled out offside.
Ballymena United: O'Neill, Lafferty, O'Donnell, McMullan, McCurry, Edogun, McCallion, McEleney, Corbally, Barr, Jarvis subs Johnston, Hood, Kennedy, Loughran, Devine, Hawe, Carson
Larne: Ferguson, Want, Donnelly, O'Neill, O'Connor, S. Graham, McEneff, Nolan, Cosgrove, Gallagher, Bayode subs D. Graham, McKendry, Randall, Ryan, Devlin, Wallace, Simpson
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