Mowi Premiership
Skye Camanachd scored a goal in each half to beat Glenurquhart 2-0 at Blairbeg.
Glenurquhart’s Liam Robertson was ruled out through injury and Cameron MacKintosh, Josh MacDonaldHaig and Finlay Robertson were also missing.
Skye was without Neil MacVicar and Ross MacKinnon, but Somhairle MacDonald and Taylor Matheson returned to the squad with both starting on the bench.
James Pringle gave Skye the lead with a great goal on 32 minutes. Martin Pringle’s free-hit from deep inside his own half on the right was quickly played on by Ally ‘Cleodi’ MacLeod to Jordan Murchison, then to Will Cowie, before James Pringle crashed a great shot past keeper Stuart MacKintosh.
Ross Gordon confirmed the victory on 72 minutes. Skye substitute Taylor Matheson won possession on the Skye left before sending the ball low to Ross Gordon who turned his marker and ran across the ‘D’ before committing the keeper and stroking the ball low into the net.
Glenurquhart had the chance to pull a goal back when referee Brian MacKay adjudged Skye keeper Murphy Henderson to have saved the ball with his foot whilst his foot was off the ground. Connor Golabek took the spot-hit but didn’t connect with the ball as he would have liked and Murphy Henderson saved with his feet.
Golabek passed up another chance late on but although Glenurquhart put up a good fight, Skye deserved the victory.
Beauly are through to the last 16 after beating Glengarry 6-2 in front of a decent crowd at Craigard.
Beauly got off to a great start with Ross Forbes scoring after two minutes.
Sandy Elrick added a second on 21 minutes and although Glengarry were tested against National Division opposition, they enjoyed spells of pressure, creating chances of their own, one of which was converted by Shaun Nicolson on 35 minutes.
But Sandy Elrick’s second on 44 minutes and Finlay MacLennan on 57 minutes extended Beauly’s lead to 4-1.
Beauly, who were still missing David MacLean, added two more through Jack MacDonald on 59 and 63 minutes.
There was just a minute remaining when referee Deek Cameron awarded the home side a penalty. Shaun Nicolson stepped up to strike the spothit past Beauly keeper Lennox Stewart to score his second goal of the game.
Steven Hyslop scored five minutes before half-time as Strathglass beat Inverness 1-0 at the Bught Park.
Fort William came behind to draw 1-1 Kinlochshiel at An Aird.
Arran MacPhee, Alexander MacMillan, Bryan Simpson, Jack Fraser and Sean Cameron were amongst Fort William’s absentees.
Kinlochshiel fielded a strong side with Finlay MacRae, Duncan Matheson, Mark MacDonald and Conor Cormack making up their defence.
Kinlochshiel took the lead on the half-hour. John MacRae from with won possession outside the ‘D’ and weaved his way into the box before being impeded by a Fort William defender. Referee John Angus Gillies blew for a penalty, although the ball had already found Duncan Matheson, who had been pushed into attack, and he found the back of the net. It didn’t matter though as Jordan Fraser struck an unstoppable spot-hit to the keeper’s left.
Jordan Fraser almost added a second five minutes later when he found space on the left and fired another piledriver, but Paul MacKay pulled off another superb save.
Kinlochshiel, now with the wind behind them, made a strong start to the second half but the Fort William defence of Mark Grant, Ali MacRae, Hamish Shaw and Jamie Duncan were resilient.
The visitors should have doubled their lead when Keith MacRae flicked the ball to an unmarked Archie MacRae, who had come off the bench, 15 yards from goal but he shot wide.
Paul MacKay produced arguably the save of the day on the hour when the Kinlochshiel forward line combined to set up a shooting opportunity for Jordan Fraser whose 20 yard shot was heading for the top corner of the net to the keeper’s left. But Paul MacKay stretched to tip the ball away with his stick.
Despite all the Kinlochshiel pressure, Fort William equalised with 20 minutes remaining. The goal came from a set-piece when a Kinlochshiel player pushed his opponent to the ground on the half-way line. A quickly taken free-hit saw Calum Shepherd find Lewis Morrison on the left who peeled past his marker before picking out second half substitute Mark Fraser on the ‘D’ who turned and slotted the ball low past Josh Grant into the corner of the goal.
Fort William were excellent in defence and Kinlochshiel will rue the opportunities they passed up to score but Paul MacKay turned in a man-ofthe-match display in goals.
Oban Camanachd took early charge of their game against Kilmallie before eventually running out 4-0 winners at Canal Parks.
Kilmallie boss Martin Stewart was missing Lewis Birrell, Stephen McAlister and Stuart Callison, with Michael Rodger starting on the bench.
Oban Camanachd manager Gareth Evans had Garry Lord still out through injury and the match came too soon for the injured Malcolm Clark and Evan MacLellan. Scott McKillop, Daniel Cameron, Daniel Sloss and Scott Robertson made up the defence. Scott MacMillan, who is back for four weeks, took a place on the bench.
Oban Camanachd went in front straight from the throwup. Blair MacFarlane won the ball and Daniel MacVicar set up Daniel Madej for a half-volley finish with only 12 seconds played. It got even better for Oban Camanachd on three minutes when Louie MacFarlane got by three players before finding Daniel MacVicar on the edge of the ‘D’ who finished well to make it 2-0.
With clean hitting up the park from Oban Camanachd’s Scott McKillop, it was mainly one-way traffic towards the Kilmallie goal as the visitors created opportunities, but a mixture of missed chances and good saves from Kevin Toye in the home goal meant it remained 2-0 at the break.
The Oban side made a change at half-time with Ross Campbell coming off, Scott Robertson redeployed to the wing and Craig Easton reintroduced into defence.
Just five minutes into the
Kingussie stay top of the table following their 1-0 victory over Glasgow Mid Argyll at Peterson Park.
This was a hard-fought victory with Ruaraidh Anderson playing a one-two with Savio Genini to score the only goal of the game after seven minutes.
Both teams were understrength as Lovat maintained their 100 per cent league record with an impressive 3-0 win over Kyles Athletic at Tighnabruaich.
Callum Millar returned to the Kyles defence but Andrew King, Robbie MacLeod, Cameron Jack, Martyn MacFadyen and Scott MacDonald were missing. Even with their second team game off, Kyles were still only able to list one substitute.
Lovat travelled without Fraser Heath, Callum Cruden, Lewis Tawse and Joe Embleton as well as some fringe players and they listed former manager Fraser Gallacher as a substitute.
Kyles attacked from the throw-up but Lovat, playing with the wind in their favour, countered and when Innes MacDonald swung one-handed and brought down Sam Stubbs inside the ‘D’ after two minutes, referee Willie MacDonald pointed to the spot. Greg Matheson sent a powerful penalty past Kyles keeper John Whyte, waist-high into the right corner of the net.
The game went from endto-end before the Balgate side doubled their lead on 25 minutes. Lovat were awarded a free-hit for a hand-ball on the edge of the ‘D’. Graeme MacMillan rolled the ball to the left to Marc MacLachlan who fired into the roof of the net on his back-hand.
Lovat gave under-17 player Angus Mearns, a cousin of keeper Stuart MacDonald, his first team debut, with Fraser Gallacher also coming on.
Greg Matheson scored his fourth goal in four games to confirm victory on 77 minutes with a low shot into the bottom corner of the net from 15 yards.
Lovat were the better team
The Lovat juniors go second in the league after beating the Kingussie juniors 2-1 at Balgate.
Lovat player/manager Raymond Rennie scored for the fourth successive game to give the home side the lead on nine minutes.
Caley Matheson made it 2-0 on 14 minutes and although Robert Shiells pulled a goal back three minutes later, there was no further scoring.
Lochcarron father and son team Gregor and Kenny Cushnie were on target for the second week in a 3-0 win over the Glenurquhart second team at Battery Park.
Gregor Cushnie broke the deadlock on 41 minutes with the only goal of the first half.