Hero O’Hara gets Wasps off the bottom
Daniel Handling and Scott Shepherd overturned David Hopkirk’s opener to keep up the pressure on leaders Cove Rangers.
Stenny’s afternoon got worse yet when Andrew Munro was sent off for a foul on Handling as Davie Irons’ side played out the latter stages with 10 men. Stirling Albion...1 Elgin City..............2
Alloa hauled themselves off the foot of the table with a late winner from Kevin O’Hara.
The Wasps flew into a twogoal first-half lead before Queens clawed level but O’Hara hit the vital clincher.
Boss Peter Grant said: “We showed fantastic character to win. It doesn’t matter getting off the bottom, it’s at the end of the season when it counts.
“However, I was sick of us
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being described as the best football team in the league but bottom of the division.”
O’Hara netted the visitors’ opener from 12 yards after a mistake from Queens’ Darren Brownlie in the eighth minute teed up the ball for him.
Robert Thomson made it 2-0 six minutes later when his downward shot battered into the turf and looped in.
Sub Jack Hamilton pulled a goal back in 52 minutes when he bundled home at the near post. And just before the hour Stephen Dobbie made it 2-2 with a swerving shot from the edge of the box.
Nine minutes from the end O’Hara made sure of Alloa’s win when he rammed in a close-range effort.
Queens boss Allan Johnston said: “To not get at least a draw is a sickener, especially after fighting back to 2-2.”