Lethal Linn hits a Cup double as Broch beaten
It took just 17 minutes for Cove to take the lead in peculiar fashion.
Luis Longstaff cut the ball back in the box to Blair Yule, whose weak effort was saved. However, the Pace’s goalkeeper fumbled a shot and Gerry Mcdonagh was there to bundle the ball over the line.
The second goal for the hosts came on the 38th minute through Mcdonagh again. A Longstaff cross found Fyvie, whose shot hit the post. It came back out to Megginson who had his effort saved, but only as far as Mcdonagh who was at the right place at the right time again to tap it over the line.
One minute after half-time, Mcdonagh completed his hat-trick, volleying home a Longstaff free-kick.
He soon added a fourth, heading home from another Longstaff delivery. After a pause in the scoring, Cove added three more goals in a four-minute spell.
Substitute Leighton Mcintosh chipped in a fifth counter for the home side when put through on goal, and Fraser Fyvie ended a goalmouth stramash with a simple finish.
In the 87th minute, Jamie Masson made it 7-0, leaping the highest from a Ciaran Dunne cross to head in from close range.
FORMARTINE UTD 1 STENHOUSEMUIR 3
Stenhousemuir defeated Highland League side Formartine 3-1 in a game that opened up in the second half.
Formartine started the game on the front foot and were unlucky not to take the lead when the ball fell to Jack Mciver at the edge of the area, but the former Don fired over.
Matthew Yates and Julian Wade both went close as the two teams probed for an opener. A long throw by Mike Anderson was headed just over the top by Dan Higgins, who had earlier cleared a goalbound effort off his own line.
The all-important breakthrough arrived four minutes into the second half when a Yates corner was deflected into the goal by Aaron Norris.
Supersub Adam Brown headed home the nerve-settling second when he rose to nod Anderson’s cross past Ewen Macdonald.
Wade pulled one back in time-added with a close-range finish to raise hopes of a dramatic finale.
Within a minute, the ever-dangerous Yates restored the two-goal cushion, Hamish Orr laying it on a plate for the young striker to sidefoot home