Skye Camanachd 0 Kilmallie 5 | |
25 June 2013 Kilmallie beat Skye Camanachd 5-0 in their Marine Harvest North Division 1 match at Pairc nan Laoch, Portree on Saturday 22 June 2013. Skye manager Willie MacRae took his team into the 2.30pm throw up on the back of three successive defeats. MacRae was forced to make six changes from the team which lost 5-1 to Kilmallie in the Balliemore Cup the previous weekend with Allan MacKinnon, Angie MacDonald, Kenny MacLeod and Thomas Wilson all missing and Danny Morrison and Darryl MacIntosh joining Ally “Spod” MacLeod and Aonghas MacDonald on the injury list. Kenny Campbell was back in the squad after missing the previous week’s game and David Grant, Ally MacDonald, Neil John Campbell, John Angus MacInnes and Andrew Banks were called up from the second team. Paul MacKinnon was also unavailable. Kilmallie manager Duncan Kelly also had to make changes. He was without keeper Kevin Toye so wing centre Mark MacPherson took over in goal. Defender Iain Robertson and full centre Peter Carmichael were also missing. However Mark Graham, Martin Graham and Martin Munro were all available again from the previous weekend. It was a wet at the start of the game and Kilmallie went on the offensive from the throw up without troubling Skye keeper Michael Nicolson. An Iain Murray ball into the Kilmallie goal area was swept away for a corner by stand-in keeper Mark MacPherson. A Grant MacKenzie snap-shot went narrowly past the Skye goal. Martin Munro cut inside but his shot looped over the bar and the same player put another effort wide of target moments later. The remainder of the first half was a dull affair with next to no goal action. Kilmallie hit Skye with a sucker-punch when they went 1-0 ahead within 30 seconds of the restart. Liam MacDonald won the throw up to set Kilmallie on the attack. The Skye defence had the chance to clear the danger but the clearance only went as far as Liam MacDonald who had pushed forward. MacDonald’s shot came back of the frame of the Skye goal and although Michael Nicolson saved Grant MacKenzie’s first attempt from the rebound, MacKenzie followed up to tuck the ball into the net. Grant MacKenzie scored Kilmallie’s second on 49 minutes when John Stewart played him in and the visiting full forward sent an unstoppable shot past Skye keeper Michael Nicolson to make it 2-0. Michael Rodger patrolled the buckshee back area effectively for Kilmallie as Skye found it difficult to threaten the visiting goal. Indeed Rodger even took the opportunity to push further up the park on occasion. Kilmallie full centre Liam MacDonald burst forward from midfield on 61 minutes and he played a one-two with Martin Munro before sending a terrific shot into the corner of the Skye net to make it 3-0. John Angus MacInnes replaced David Grant for Skye whilst Mark Graham came on in place of Martin Munro, who was nursing a hand injury, for Kilmallie. Grant MacKenzie completed his hat-trick when he made it 4-0 on 77 minutes despite a diving challenge from Skye defender Neil John Campbell. Skye reshuffled their pack with Neil MacVicar moving into attack and forward Ally MacDonald being replaced by defender Andrew Banks. John Stewart emphasised Kilmallie’s second half dominance a couple of minutes from time when he collected the ball at the end of the D with his back to goal and turned before unleashing a drive into the back of the net to make it 5-0. For Skye, the game followed a similar pattern to previous weeks when they held their own until the half time break before falling away badly in the second half. Defender Shockie MacLennan was Skye’s best performer. The win puts Kilmallie back on top of Marine Harvest North Division 1, ahead of second place Beauly on goal difference. Full forward Grant MacKenzie has now scored thirteen times in his last four games for the Canal Parks side. Skye Camanachd from; Michael Nicolson, Steven Morrison (captain), Shockie MacLennan, Neil John Campbell, Neil MacVicar, Gilleasbuig MacDonald, Iain Murray, Kenny Campbell, Jordan Murchison, Will Cowie, Ally MacDonald, David Grant, subs John Angus MacInnes, Andrew Banks, Chris Rose Kilmallie from; Mark MacPherson, Alan MacDonald, Martin Graham, Martin Stewart, Michael Rodger, Liam Cameron, Liam MacDonald, Stephen McAlister, Ryan Stewart, Martin Munro, John Stewart (captain), Grant MacKenzie, subs Mark Graham, Jamie Morrison, Frankie Innes Match Referee - Donald MacRae The match balls were sponsored by Nor-Dan |