Lisburn Distillery had fairly uneventful passage into Round 2 of the competition, but it took an hour for the Whites to take the lead.

Ample possession was not converted into goals although Damien McLaughlin looked a likely scorer early on.He headed straight at the Ards keeper, Ian Mannus, on seven minutes before blazing wide on 10 minutes.A minute later Marty Verner curled a free-kick over the bar and on 17 minutes the Ards defence managed to clear the danger after Conor Hagan had done well to get to the bye-line and square the ball across goal.

Ards had a few moments when they did get forward, Aaron McKee's free-kick being deflected off the wall for a corner, Ryan Tumelty shot past the post and Jay Magee couldn't get on the end of a corner that flashed across the home goalmouth - that though was the sum of Ards pressure in this game.

Hagan netted for the Whites on 26 minutes but it was ruled out for off-side and Mannus was then out to outjump Andrew Waterworth and claim the ball.

David Wilton, comfortable throughout in the home goal, punched over a cross from Kris Pike before the half ended with McKee shooting wide after a good run.

On 49 minutes, Neil Alderdice broke on the right and Verner crashed a header against the bar, and four minutes later the ball was loose in the box and Waterworth came racing in but his first-time effort went over the bar.McLaughlin kept the pressure on but headed wide before he crossed for Verner to net his first of the season, a close range header on 60 minutes.

It was difficult to see Ards coming back and any outside chance of that happening evaporated on 67 minutes with Magee given a second yellow card for a dangerous challenge on Hagan. Mannus was at full-stretch to keep out a free-kick from Ryan McCann, then Verner broke through on 73 minutes but Mannus was there again to save.

Darren Armour came off the bench to net a second goal on 77 minutes, James bell's corner went to the back post and Armour got on the end of it to force it home.

Verner went close in the dying minutes but the game was long over at that stage.