And star of the show was Gary Hamilton who blasted home a superb hat-trick in just over ten first half minutes to put the issue beyond any doubt at the break.

He opened the scoring on 35 minutes with an unstoppable drive into the bottom corner after collecting a cross from the left.

Number two arrived on 45 minutes after Michael Halliday knocked a Colin Nixon chip into his path whilst almost immediately afterwards to accepted a pass from David Scullion to knock home the third.

The goal blitz continued two minutes into the second half with this time Nixon getting in on the act with a far post tap-in from another Scullion ball.

Amazingly Armagh conceded a fifth barely three minutes after that after Hamilton turned provider to thread the ball through for recent signing Daryl Fordyce to confidently skip round 'keeper Stuart Addis.