Ayr take Law into their own hands...

RAITH Rovers were unbeaten in six League One games when they arrived at Somerset Park on Saturday to face promotion rivals Ayr United.

The Kirkcaldy men were top of the table, had a four-point advantage over the Honest Men in second and had only suffered one defeat in 15 since losing 3-0 to Ayr in November.

But three goals from Ayr’s leading scorer Lawrence Shankland, Jamie Adams and Michael Moffat turned the title race on its head as Rovers slumped to yet another 3-0 defeat.

Now, sitting one point behind Raith with a game in hand, suddenly Ian McCall’s side have become masters of their own fate and Shankland admitted: “It [the title] has to be aim now.

“We are up there and only a point behind the leaders and we’ve got a game in hand.

“But we’ve got a tough couple of weeks coming up and we’ve just got to take every game as it comes and try and pick three points up.

“That’s twice we’ve beaten Raith 3-0 here this season but we’ve got to make sure we’re picking up three points against other teams.”

Shankland netted his 24th of the season when he broke the deadlock after 34 minutes from a Declan McDaid free kick.

And after surpassing his previous season’s best of 15 goals with Queen’s Park, he said he just wants to keep growing his haul.

“I just want to score as many as I can this season,” he said.

“The most I’ve ever scored was 15 at Queen’s Park and thankfully I’ve left that well behind.”

There was a bit of debate after the game as to whether Shankland should’ve been on the field after treading on Raith’s Ross Matthews before he scored.

But the striker insisted he didn’t intend to hurt the midfielder.

Shankland said: “I turned to speak to the ref and the boy was on the floor. I thought he rolled up and I just stepped on the bottom of his sole.”