Home sweet home for Reserves

Glenavy Reserves 2

IT was good to be back home again.

After three away fixtures, this was Scarva Rangers Reserves’ first home game of the season and it was a happy return to their home patch.

Glenavy Reserves exerted the early pressure but the home side, spurred on by a dominant display by Dillon in central midfield, had carved out a commanding two goal lead by the interval.

He made a bursting run from the middle of the park to latch on to an incisive through ball from Mark Baird and fire home the opening goal.

Dillon scored his second goal of the afternoon shortly afterwards, this time benefiting from a neat pass from Neil Campbell and sweeping the ball magnificently into the top corner of the net.

Glenavy secured a goal early in the second half and Rangers were struggling to put the visiting defence under sustained pressure but two men from the bench helped change the course of the game.

On one foray forward right midfielder Mark Baird whipped a dangerous cross into the heart of the visitors’ penalty area and substitute David William McCabe steered the ball into the net from close range. It was just reward for a hard working display from McCabe.

Fellow substitute Ernie Hammond also got in on the goal scoring act. Hammond had already warmed the Glenavy keeper’s hands with a forceful header but there was nothing the visiting number one could do when Hammond rose powerfully and sent Mark Baird’s expertly delivered free kick crashing into the back of the net.

The visitors had a mountain to climb and although they reduced the deficit to 4-2 before the final whistle, Scarva held on for a deserved victory on the back of a hard working display against a useful Glenavy side. Best for Scarva Rangers Reserves – Dillon, Baird and Hanzo.