The Glens opened the scoring after just seven minutes when Gary Hamilton threatened with a free-kick which 'keeper Philip Matthews did well to tip over the bar. Kyle Neill floated the resultant corner over from the right whereby Paul Leeman met it to nod home unmarked from six yards.

They might have doubled their lead five minutes from the break when Hamilton, celebrating his call-up to the Northern Ireland squad, fired from 25 yards but could only look on as his effort come off the top of the bar.

Their second did arrive on 65 minutes when David Scullion delivered a cross which unlucky Whites defender deflected into his own net when attempting to clear.

However, Paul Kirk's side were handed a glimmer of hope six minutes later when Neill conceded a penalty which Andrew Waterworth duly netted to set up a gripping finish to this table topping clash.

In the event, though, the nearest any side came to scoring again was a Michael Halliday effort fired wide two minutes into stoppage time.