The visitors - with a CIS Insurance Cup semi-final on Wednesday to look forward - thought they had opened the scoring after just ten minutes when John O'Loughlin beat Chris Keenan only for his 'goal' to fall foul of the offside rule.

It was Larne, though, who moved in front just three minutes later when, from a Liam Mullen right sided corner, Lewis Hamlin turned a close range header past John Connolly.

And that was how it stayed until four minutes from the break. Chris Scannell grabbed his fifth goal of the campaign after collecting a long ball down the left and bringing it past defender Andy Cleary before despatching a right foot shot home.

The pendulum swung in the visitors favour three minutes after the hour when Ronan Scannell was upended by Tomasz Grzegorczyk in the box with Liam Fleming converting the resultant spot-kick despite Keenan's best efforts.