O’Donnell edges Well through in shoot-out

MOTHERWELL 1 MORTON 1 AET, 5-3 ON PENALTIES

Stephen O’Donnell scored the winning penalty as Motherwell scraped past Morton in the Scottish Cup moments after the rightback appeared to have won the game in extra-time.

The defender opened the scoring from 25 yards seven seconds from the 120-minute mark but the visitors levelled in stoppage-time when Markus Fjortoft headed home from a corner.

Liam Kelly produced the only save of the shoot-out to deny Sean McGinty and O’Donnell kept his nerve to seal it 5-3 just days after signing a new contract.

Morton had the best of the scarce chances in normal time before the game came to life in extratime and Motherwell booked a trip to face Stranraer or Hibernian in the quarter-finals.

The Greenock side have only recorded two wins in 16 Championship games and are sitting in the relegation play-off zone but interim manager Gus MacPherson’s side performed well against their Premiership hosts.

● Marcus Fraser netted a late winner as St Mirren fought back to clinch a 2-1 comeback victory over Inverness to reach the quarter-finals.

Their reward is a tie with the winner of today’s match between Kilmarnock or Montrose, with a place in the semi-finals at stake.

Nikolay Todorov’s sixth goal in five games had given the visitors the lead and Kristian Dennis equalised shortly afterwards before Fraser’s 89th-minute effort sent the hosts through.

Well’s Stephen O’Donnell.