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Burnley is the first Premier section team to score seven goals in a single Milk Cup game this year, three of them coming from striker Joe Jackson.
His hat-trick rounded off a good day for the Jackson family, his dad having beaten the other dads in a friendly game of golf earlier that morning.
While ultimately such tournaments are about fitness ahead of the new season, the resounding win will have done a lot to lift the morale of the boys who had been unlucky not to win before now.
Terry Pashley stuck with the same back four that had kept out Co Fermanagh the day previous. On trial goalkeeper Will Fuller was given a second opportunity to impress while Jackson and Stephen Hewitt were recalled.
There was an early chance for Liam Newman before Burnley took the lead on 10 minutes. The Peruvian goalkeeper, whose name did not appear in the programme, spilled James Taylor's shot and Jackson swept in the rebound.
Burnley battled hard and showed great strength in midfield, chasing down errant passes. Cantolao struggled against the much more physical Clarets, getting easily muscled off the ball.
Jackson had a goal disallowed for offside moments before Burnley scored again.
Centre half Curtis Woods from Ballymena enjoyed a homecoming of sorts, the game being played in Broughshane, a village suburb of his hometown. Woods made it 2-0 on 23 minutes when he rose well to meet a Dominic Knowles free kick.
There followed efforts by Hewitt and Knowles, whose long-range shot was well saved, before the Clarets went three up. A stray pass was seized upon by Taylor who played it wide to Jackson who in turn crossed for Newman to tap in.
Cantolao, who conceded eight goals in their previous two games, pulled one back before the break. Woods was caught in possession by Marcelo Aranguren whose shot went through the legs of Fuller. Up until then Fuller had played with greater confidence than in his previous outing against Trudovye Rezervy.
In the second half it was all Burnley. After just five minutes Newman scored his second, connecting with Taylor's perfect cross after excellent build-up play also involving right back Edward Williams and Knowles.
The Cantolao keeper denied Newman his hat-trick when he spectacularly palmed away a goal-bound free kick. But for every great goal-denying save he made, he gifted the Clarets a goal. Jackson scooped in his second after another parry.
There followed about a dozen chances before Jackson scored his third and best goal, latching onto Taylor's cross and hammering the ball high into the net. Jackson then turned provider for Ross Wilson to make it 7-1 with five minutes remaining.
Newman's best chance to complete his own hat-trick came just before the end but he ballooned his shot - even the referee held his head in his hands.
The young Clarets end their week on the north coast with a winner-takes-all match against Co Tyrone at the University Coleraine.
Burnley team: Fuller, Williams, Edwards, Woods, McEneaney, Taylor, Hewitt, Knowles, Newman, Wilson, Jackson