The guests raced into the lead contained in the opening two minutes because of Shevlin’s fifteenth league objective of the season.
Midfielder Mark Coyle noticed the run of the striker and performed the ball in behind a hesitant Larne defence and Shevlin raced away from Matthew Ridley earlier than rounding Larne goalkeeper Rohan Ferguson and firing into an unguarded internet.
Shevlin handed up an excellent probability to double his and his facet’s benefit moments later however Rohan Ferguson produced a wise save to disclaim him whereas, on the different finish, Ryan Schofield brilliantly saved from Andy Ryan after being arrange by Sean Graham.
Each goalkeepers continued to impress – Ferguson blocking Zane Okoro’s low shot with an outstretched foot whereas Schofield acquired his physique behind an formidable volley from Ronan Doherty.
Larne’s frustrations had been compounded after they had been lowered to 10 males following the dismissal of Bent following a problem on Shevlin within the thirty fifth minute.
However they regrouped and drew degree on the stroke of half-time when high objective scorer Ryan slotted dwelling his sixth penalty of the season after Dylan Boyle dealt with contained in the penalty space.
Rohan Ferguson got here to the house facet’s rescue shortly after the restart when he touched Shevlin’s objective certain header onto the submit.
Nonetheless, he was powerless to stop the guests regaining the lead simply earlier than the hour mark when Wylie was left unmarked six yards out to look a header into the underside nook of the web from a pinpoint Levi Ives supply.
It was 3-1 with 20 minutes remaining when Patching netted his ninth objective of the season from the spot after Tomas Cosgrove was adjudged to have dealt with inside the realm.
The scoring was accomplished with seven minutes remaining when Shevlin capitalised on some slack Larne defending to rifle dwelling from 12 yards for his second objective of the night time.
