Carniny hosted a well drilled, youthful Warrenpoint Town Reserves at the Showgrounds on warm conditions on Saturday afternoon. The visitors started brightly taking the game to Carniny in the early stages, with a long range shot crashing off the Carniny crossbar. The Town were committing large numbers forward in their attacks but couldn't break through the Carniny back four of Armstrong, Logan, White and Johnston. Carniny then had a one on one with Peacock racing through on goal only to see the Town keeper save his shot. The reds then opened the scoring on 35 mins with Armstrong lobbing a ball in from the right to find Adams on the edge of the box, who controlled well and opened up space away from his defender to turn well and slot home to break the deadlock. The home side held their lead going into the break.

Into the second half that saw a change in tactics from the visitors with them not committing themselves in as many numbers. Carniny were now containing them, and it looked as if they were going to hold on to their lead until the final whistle. However, on 86 mins they conceded a free kick which found the head of a Warrenpoint man who headed home to level the game and take it into extra time. Late I'm the first period of et Carniny had a free kick from the left-hand side and Noah Scullion made no mistake from the dead ball firing high up into the top corner to give Carniny the lead. In the second period of et Warrenpoint threw everything at Carniny but cbs White and Logan dealt with everything that came their way. Carniny saw out the game in the closing minutes breaking forward on a number of occasions to take the win and book a place in the second round.