CAMERON IS TRIPLE ACE AS DUNDEE CLOSE GAP ON QUEEN’S

LYALL CAMERON’S hat-trick helped Dundee cut Queen’s Park lead at the top of the Championship to one point following a 7-0 home win over bottom-of-the-table Hamilton.

Dundee took the lead after seven minutes when Alex Jakubiak stabbed home at the back post and they added another in the 16th minute as captain Ryan Sweeney headed in from a Luke

Hannant corner.

The hosts then notched two goals just before half-time, with Cameron scoring from close range in the 44th minute before Luke McCowan found the net in added time.

Cameron grabbed his second in the 72nd minute with a low strike and completed his hat-trick four minutes later with a header. Kwame Thomas headed a seventh with six minutes left.

Queen’s Park suffered their second successive defeat, going down 2-0 to Raith Rovers at Stark’s Park.

After falling behind to Tom Lang’s header on the half-hour, Queen’s missed the chance to draw level from the spot, with Dominic Thomas seeing his 38th-minute penalty saved by Jamie MacDonald.

Lewis Vaughan then added Raith’s second in 61 minutes minute before the visitors had Charlie Fox sent off following an off-the-ball incident.

The result leaves Owen Coyle’s side a point clear of second-placed Dundee, who have a game in hand. Ian Murray’s Raith remain seventh.

Partick Thistle earned their first win in four games with a 5-0 crushing of strugglers

Cove Rangers.

Thistle, who remain fourth in the table, took the lead through Scott Tiffoney in 11 minutes.

Steven Lawless doubled their lead seven minutes later.

The Jags got their third in the 58th minute when Brian Graham curled the ball into the bottom corner and Kevin Holt extended the lead four minutes afterwards with a header from Kyle Turner’s free-kick.

Danny Mullen made it five in the 90th minute with a headed effort into the top corner of the net to hand Rangers their sixth straight league defeat.

David Carson notched a late winner as Inverness Caley Thistle beat Morton 2-1 at Cappielow.

Carson fired past Morton keeper Brian Schwake in the 88th minute to secure a third victory in four games for

Caley. The Greenock side had earlier equalised with a 69th-minute Grant Gillespie penalty, cancelling out Scott Allardice’s opener in 54 minutes. Billy Dodds’ Inverness side, in sixth place, have closed the gap on Dougie Imrie’s Morton to a point.