Wednesday 3 October 2018
Penicuik Park, Penicuik
East of Scotland Conference A Fixture #5
Penicuik Athletic
Starting XI | Cordery, Caddow, Baptie, Young (Jones 61), Forbes, MacDonald, Sproule, Barr (c) (Kateleza 61), Sampson (McIntosh 61), Somerville, McCrory-Irving
Unused subs | Hamilton, Ponton, Connolly
Goalscorers | Somerville (7, 16 pen, 39), Forbes (21), McCrory-Irving (64), McIntosh (69, 75, 83), Jones (77)
Sent off | None
Tweedmouth Rangers
Starting XI | Fletcher, McLeod, Cromarty, Graham, Aitchison, Robinson, Colquhoun, Robertson, Strang, Crombie, Gibson
Subs | Murray, Blaikie, Allan, McKenna
Goalscorer | None
Sent off | None
Penicuik welcomed first time visitors Tweedmouth Rangers to Penicuik Park and gave them a warm reception as the Cuikie turned up the heat and put nine without reply past the Conference A bottom side to go back on top of the Conference. Manager Harvey took the opportunity to refresh his side from the weekend’s eight goal win over Leith Athletic and made six changes in his starting line-up.
Under the lights in a competitive match for the first time the home side wasted no time in laying down a marker as early as the 7th minute when SOMERVILLE scored his 65th goal for Penicuik, firing in a volley from Sampson’s knock down, the ball hitting the back of the net via the left hand upright. On the quarter hour mark Barr was brought down as he drove towards goal and SOMERVILLE stepped up to convert the penalty. On 21 minutes FORBES, wearing an unfamiliar no5 shirt, made it three turning home Sproule’s shot after finding himself unmarked in the six-yard box. With six minutes to the interval the home side went four up as SOMERVILLE completed his fourth hat-trick of the season with a sensational curling effort from 22 yards out leaving Fletcher helpless.
HALFTIME | Penicuik Athletic 4-0 Tweedmouth Rangers
The second half started sedately with the home side in control and just past the hour mark Harvey made a triple change as the trio of Jones, McIntosh and Kateleza replacing Young, Sampson and Barr. In the 64th minute MCCRORY-IRVING made it two in two firing home after McIntosh’s shot was saved by Fletcher. Substitute MCINTOSH, fresh from his four-goal haul against Leith grabbed the sixth in 69 minutes as his shot squirmed under the keeper. Six minutes later MCINTOSH got his second and the home side’s seventh as he headed home from Baptie’s corner! With the fresh legs of the replacements having an impact it was JONES who got the 8th in 77 minutes as he picked out the top corner from the edge of the 18-yard box and the scoring was completed in the 83rd minute with the inevitable MCINTOSH goal as he completed his second hat-trick in four days from Somerville’s cross.
FULLTIME | Penicuik Athletic 9-0 Tweedmouth Rangers