Brown: My young Warriors are going up in the world
STENHOUSEMUIR boss Brown Ferguson insists his young guns are on the march after they beat fellow strugglers Peterhead at Balmoor to climb off bottom.
Rory McAllister diverted an Alan Cook corner into his own net in the second half and Jamie McCormack scored a clinching second goal soon after.
Ferguson, whose side leapfrogged Stranraer, said: “We have been fighting down at the bottom end for a long time but we do have a youthful group of players. However, they are making progress and they managed the game well here.
“In the last few weeks we have turned the corner.”
Peterhead survived an early scare when Fraser Hobday had to push away a Cook shot.
The home side conjured up a chance five minutes before the break. McAllister shrugged off the challenge of David Marsh to set up Jamie Redman but the midfielder delayed his shot and Colin McCabe saved easily.
Nicky Riley squandered a glorious chance to give Blue Toon the lead in 53 minutes. The former Dundee winger latched on to a Redman ball but after rounding McCabe, he somehow missed the target.
And they paid for that in 71 minutes as McAllister glanced a Cook delivery from a corner into his own net.
And the Warriors made sure of the points when McCormack doubled their advantage eight minutes later. Hobday made a mess of trying to deal with Cook’s 30-yard free-kick and McCormack was on hand to bury the rebound.
Blue Toon boss Jim McInally said: “It is the way it is going for us that an own goal and a rebound has cost us.”