HONOURS were shared at the Showgrounds on a day not perfectly suited for any type of flowing football.

A wind assisted strike by Limavady goalkeeper Dwayne Nelson and an own goal by Aaron Callaghan meant the points were shared.

The visitors had the first real chance of the game when a mix-up in the Limavady defence pre-sented Frances Murphy with a shot on goal but Liam Cooley was on hand to clear the ball away.

The home side's first oppor-tunity came in the 30th minute when a great run by Ryan Semple saw him beat three defenders but unfortunately his shot didn't match the run and Phillip Matthews easily saved.

Then Limavady took the lead in bizarre circumstances.

A long clearance by their goal-keeper Dwayne Nelson bounced in front of Matthews and over his head into the net.

Half-time: Limavady 1 Distillery 0.

Ten minutes into the second half Limavady almost doubled their lead when Mark Magennis struck the crossbar with a pow-erful free kick with Matthews well beaten.

With 15 minutes left Magennis again beat his marker and laid the ball off to Mark McDaid but his powerful shot sailed over the cross bar.

In the 81st minute Distillery grabbed a barely deserved the equaliser when Aaron Callaghan turned the ball into his own net from Damien McLoughlin's cross.

The match ended in controversy and in stoppage time Distillery lost two men to red cards.

Gareth McKeown was sent off for an off the ball incident and Conor Hagan followed him down the tunnel for a two footed challenge.

LIMAVADY UNITED: Nelson, Curran, Cutmore, Callaghan, Cooley, Shields, Semple, Patrick, Patton, Magennis, Mc-Daid.

Subs: Dunlop, Mullan, Buwlow.

LISBURN DISTILLERY: Matthews, McKeown, Thompson, McCann, Buchanan, Muir, Martin, Hagan, Arm-strong, Armour, Murphy.

Subs: Dickson, McLaughlin, Coffey.

Referee: Trevor Moutray (Belfast).