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Pre-season friendlies
SOME pre-season friendlies managed to beat the wet weather on Saturday February 18.
Aberdour P Kyles Athletic P
The 1.30pm throw up between the Aberdour and Kyles Athletic second teams at Silversands was postponed.
Dunoon Camanachd P Glasgow University P
There was disappointment for Dunoon Camanachd when their pre-season friendly, a noon throw up against Glasgow University, was postponed as heavy overnight rain left Black Park unplayable.
Glasgow Mid Argyll 3 Bute 0
Glasgow Mid Argyll beat Bute 3-0 in their 1.30pm throw up at Yoker.
GMA were without Finlay MacMillan and Duncan ‘Ach’ MacRae through injury but they took the lead through Mark Bain.
Further goals from Craig Anderson and Calum McLay sealed the win.
Glasgow Mid Argyll 1 Strachur 0
Earlier in the day, Glasgow Mid Argyll’s second team defeated Strachur 1-0 in an 11.30am throw up at Yoker. Scott Anderson scored the only goal of the game just before half time.
Glenorchy 2 Bute 3
The Bute second team beat Glenorchy 3-2 in a 2pm throw up at Mart Park.
Robert McLaughlin put Glenorchy ahead on 15 minutes but Ruaridh Soane equalised 10 minutes before the break.
Glenorchy went in front through Duncan Buchanan three minutes after the restart. Bute then drew level with Ruaridh Soane getting his second on 55 minutes. It stayed that way until five minutes from time when Neil McKirdy popped up to score the winner for the islanders.
Kingussie 3 Beauly 1
Kingussie bounced back from last week’s 3-2 defeat to Caberfeidh to beat Beauly 3-1 at the Dell.
Kingussie played better as a team this week and two goals from the returning Ryan Borthwick and a Savio Genini strike gave them the win.
Conor Ross countered for a young Beauly side which was minus David MacLean. Keeper Josh Grant was their top performer.
Lochside Rovers P Newtonmore P
The match between Lochside Rovers and the Newtonmore second team at Ganavan didn’t go ahead as the visitors were unable to raise a team.
Oban Celtic 1 Kilmallie 6
A powerful second half display gave Kilmallie a 6-1 win over Oban Celtic in their 2pm throw up at a windy Mossfield.
Oban Celtic took the lead thanks to a cracking Daniel Madej effort and that’s the way it stayed until the break.
Kenny Wotherspoon’s side could have been further ahead had it not been for some fine goal-keeping from Shane Gillies in the Kilmallie goal whilst an Ally McKerracher shot came back off the post.
The second half belonged to the Canal Parks side though and they went on to score six times without reply.
Ryan Stewart pulled Kilmallie level and a Mark Graham brace and goals from Bryan MacKay and Michael Rodger had the visitors 5-1 ahead.
Duncan Rodger rounded off the scoring with a goal direct from a corner with some confusion in the Oban Celtic back line as to whether a goal could be scored direct from a setpiece.
After the match, Oban Celtic manager Kenny Wotherspoon said: ‘We gave a good account of ourselves in the first half, especially with our movement up front.
‘We made seven changes in the second half to give the boys a run out.
‘We won’t make any changes this coming Saturday unless we have to. It’s the Robert Wylie Memorial Cup against Ballachulish and we want to win.
‘As far as I’m concerned. that’s our pre-season finished. Our competitive season starts this week.’
Strathglass 0 Oban Camanachd 3
Oban Camanachd had a successful trip north where they beat Strathglass 3-0 at Cannich to lift the Murdo MacKenzie Memorial Cup.
Daniel Cameron got the Oban side off to a great start with a goal from close range in the opening minute.
Matt Rippon made it 2-0 fiveminutes later when he tapped the ball home from inside the ‘D’.
A superb 25-yard shot from Malcolm Clark flew into the top corner of the net to make it 3-0 on 56 minutes.
There was a good midfield battle throughout the game and the home keeper and defence did well to prevent Camanachd from increasing their lead.
Oban Camanachd boss Iain Hay travelled without Andrew MacCuish and Aidan MacIntyre. He played youngsters Lewis Buchanan and Daniel MacCuish who both performed well. This was Oban Camanachd’s final pre-season friendly ahead of the start of the new shinty season.