Glenavon achieved the win required to avoid a promotion-relegation play-off with a very late winner from leading scorer Marty Verner. It was a nervy performance from the home side though, in the end, with Institute losing to a late goal against Ballymena, the result at Mourneview turned out to be irrelevant. It didn't look that way in the 71st minute when United's 17 year old substitute Tony Clyde stroked a low shot past Kyle Nelson at his near post to give the visitors the lead. Glenavon's equaliser came only two minutes later when Aidan McVeigh's cross was turned into his own net by Martin Ferry.

Paul McKnight had drawn a good save from Dwayne Nelson with a 7th minute free kick from 22 yards but It needed a great tackle by April's Player of the Month, Conor McAnallen to deny Stewart in the 21st minute after a careless header by McAlinden had given possession away to the visitors. Barry Reid had the ball in the visitor's net after a good move in the 23rd minute but his effort was ruled out by the offside flag.

The best chance of the first half came in the 31st minute when the Limavady defence failed to cut out McAlorum's through ball and Verner found himself one-on-one with the keeper. As the striker tried to take the ball around him, Nelson just got a hand to the ball and denied him a repeat of his goal from last week's game at Armagh.

Limavady should have gone ahead four minutes into the second half when a mix-up between Kyle Nelson and Barry Reid saw the young keeper miss an attempted clearance kick as he raced out of his area but somehow Niall Cooke contrived to put the ball into the side netting with the open goal at his mercy. Five minutes later good play down the Glenavon left with McMahon feeding the ball through to McKnight saw his cross just flash too high for an attempted diving header from Verner. Glenavon's leading striker then missed from 8 yards after McKnight's free kick came to him via a poor defensive header.

The visitor's keeper was fortunate in the 65th minute when he allowed Verner's in swinging corner to slip through his hands and only a goal line clearance prevented Glenavon taking the lead.

McMahon then surprisingly gave the ball away just outside his own penalty area and it took a good save from young Nelson to deflect Coyle's effort onto the post and away for a corner. Glenavon nerves were apparent again minutes later when Black and Nelson both hesitated and almost let in Limavady subs McVicar and Clyde.

Clyde did then score to send the Mourneview Park faithful silent when he exchanged passes with Shields and ran onto his through ball before slotting it under the outstretched hand of Nelson at his near post. Hope was soon restored however when McVeigh dispossessed Curran and slotted over a low cross destined for Verner. Limavady defender Martin Ferry stuck out a boot and diverted the ball into the net past his helpless keeper.

With Glenavon pressing for a winner to ensure the three points required to avoid the play-off there were inevitable gaps at the back but in the final minute it looked like McVeigh would settle matters as he ran onto a through ball and rounded the United keeper but he had let the ball run wide and could only manage to hit the post with the goal at his mercy. Fortunately Verner displayed his striker's instincts and smashed the rebound left-footed into the far side of the goals to send the Mourneview fans into raptures, of relief, as much as joy.