STORY OF THE MATCH: Glenavon 2 Carrick Rangers 3 - Big debut moment as 16-year-old scores Glenavon's last goal before relegation

Pollock found the net after joining play off the bench to provide one happy talking point for the Lurgan Blues already set for second-tier football before kick-off.

It marked the final goal of the club’s 20-plus years run in top-flight football.

Paddy Burns’ penalty kick broke the deadlock before Carrick hit back off Adam Lecky, Jimmy Callacher and Danny Gibson.

F-T: Glenavon 2 Carrick Rangers 3

89: GOAL - Glenavon 2 Carrick Rangers 3 (Gibson) Gibson reacts first after Carney claws the ball away inside the box to smash home from a few yards and restore Carrick's lead

85: GOAL - Glenavon 2 (Pollock) Carrick Rangers 2

Well 16-year-old Alfie Pollock will always remember today even if it's the day Glenavon signed off as a Premiership club - with the substitute hooking the ball home minutes after joining play for his first-team debut

78: SUB (Carrick) - Waide on for Lecky

76: SUBS (Glenavon) - Pollock and McShane on for Quinn and Murphy

72: GOAL - Glenavon 1 Carrick Rangers 2 (Callacher)

Callacher with a decisive close-range touch to convert after a corner-kick finds a way to the defender across the packed penalty area

64: SUB (Carrick) - Gibson on for Heatley

62: SUBS (Glenavon) - Lindsay, McGovern and Falls on for Ferris, Campbell and Carlin

57: GOAL - Glenavon 1 Carrick Rangers 1 (Lecky)

Steele's free-kick delivery is turned home by Lecky to level

50: Moore lively since his Carrick introduction off the bench - with two efforts on goal saved by Carney in the opening minutes of the second half

46: SUBS (Carrick Rangers) - Moore, Steele and Callacher on for McCawl, Cherry and Burns

H-T: Glenavon 1 Carrick Rangers 0

45: Battling Glenavon striker Ferris shows determination - including a sliding tackle - to keep possession under pressure in the penalty area despite two Carrick defenders but Donnelly is out to smother his final shot

41: GOAL - Glenavon 1 (Burns) Carrick Rangers 0

Referee Jamie Robinson rules a foul by Carrick goalkeeper Lorcan Donnelly on Glenavon striker Nathaniel Ferris. Donnelly picks up a booking and Burns steers home the penalty kick

37: YELLOW (Carrick Rangers) - Cherry

34: Best move of the game as Glenavon work space down the right with Quinn and McMullan key before the ball falls at the far post but Campbell's drive clears the crossbar

26: YELLOW (Glenavon) - Snoddy

25: Another back-post header by Lecky - this time off Heatley's delivery from deep - but comfortable again for Carney

GLENAVON: Jacob Carney, Jordan McMullan, Paddy Burns, Harry Murphy, Peter Campbell, Oran O’Kane, Kris Lowe, Nathaniel Ferris, Michael Harkin, Sean Carlin, Niall Quinn.

Subs: Joshua Kee, Gavin Gilmore, Conor Falls, Paul McGovern, Charlie Lindsay, Charlie McShane, Alfie Pollock.

CARRICK RANGERS: Lorcan Donnelly, Michael Place, Billy Joe Burns, Adam Lecky, Luke McCullough, Kyle Cherry, Paul Heatley, Reece Glendinning, Matthew Snoddy, Ryan McKay, Eoghan McCawl.

Subs: Nathan Gartside, Jimmy Callacher, Ryan Waide, Danny Gibson, Aidan Steele, Rakealan Jeffers, Joe Moore.

Referee: Jamie Robinson.