The league winning Lisnagarvey fifths polished off their perfect season with a very tight 3-1 victory at Hillsborough last Friday evening.<\/p>\n
North Down were forced into a formation change and played the game as a 3-4-3 all match, the key to the change was the discipline of the defence.\u00a0 Paul Revill playing his comeback match did not put a single foot out of place, marshalling the defence like he has never been away and Michael McClelland\u00a0grew into the game keeping the skilful Garvey front line at bay.\u00a0 Ben Long had his best game for the Club and even managed to orchestrate full attacks.\u00a0Ryan McKee\u00a0in goal completed the defensive line up and made a number of key saves and interceptions.<\/p>\n
The first quarter was nip and tuck with little between the sides but Garvey finally scored a breakaway goal with 30 seconds left.\u00a0 The pattern continued in the second period and yet again Garvey stole a goal right on the interval whistle to go in 2-0 up at half time.<\/p>\n
North Down came out determinedly after the break and were certainly not taking a backward step as they found themselves creating a number of good chances. Sam Pyper broke into the Garvey 25 and just missed out on his pass which would have set Bond away for a one on one.\u00a0 Matt Murray\u00a0also narrowly missed a goal after a wonder save from the Garvey keeper.
\nHowever yet again Garvey were awarded a generous short corner on the third quarter whistle.\u00a0 Their entire team went up and they scored the goal to make it 3-0 leaving the visitors a little hard done by.<\/p>\n
Into the final quarter and North Down dominated for the rest of the game.\u00a0 Some great work down the right from Sam Pyper fed Simon Wilcock into the circle who squared to\u00a0Andrew Linter\u00a0and his brilliant first time shot fired right into the corner for 3-1.\u00a0 The Comber boys continued to press the rattled Garvey team but just couldn\u2019t get the second goal which would have made the last 5 minutes interesting.
\nGarvey fifths have been a class act all season and finished the season with a 100% record but they were made to work hard for the final victory.<\/p>\n
Burch Autos Man of the Match was Ben Long<\/p>\n
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