Skye Camanachd Saturday Shinty Shorts | |
11 April 2015 There were mixed results for the Skye Camanachd first and second teams on Saturday 11 April 2015. Holders Skye Camanachd are out of this year’s Balliemore Cup after they lost out to Bute following a controversial penalty shoot-out at the Meadows. Neil MacVicar and Shockie MacLennan returned for Skye but Iain Murray, Allan MacKinnon and Will Cowie were missing and Steven Morrison was suspended. Second team captain David MacInnes and Alan Palmer were added to the squad. Chris MacLennan put Skye ahead after 25 minutes but Robert Walker levelled a couple of minutes later. Chris MacLennan got his and Skye’s second on the half hour mark and they took the 2-1 lead into the break. When Jordan Murchison made it 3-1 on 56 minutes; Skye had one foot in the next round. However Robert Walker completed his hat-trick with goals on 72 and 81 minutes to make it 3-3. Referee John MacGregor took the tie into an extra-time period and the closest to a goal was a Jordan Murchison effort which came back of the post. The penalty shoot-out was not without controversy as with Bute leading 3-2, Skye’s final penalty from Kenny Campbell came off the caman of keeper Kevin Queen and hit the roof of the net before bouncing back into play. Referee John MacGregor did not accept that the ball had crossed the line so Bute will now host Kilmallie in the next round. The Skye Camanachd second team beat their Inverness counter-parts 5-0 in the first round of the Aberdein Considine Sutherland Cup at Pairc nan Laoch, Portree. John MacKenzie scored the only goal of the first half when he burst forward to get on the end of a James Pringle cross to make it 1-0. John Angus MacInnes made it 2-0 on 49 minutes and the impressive James Pringle netted twice on 55 and 62 minutes to make it 4-0. Skye’s Stewart Grant saw a penalty saved by Inverness keeper Allan MacLeod on 77 minutes and although Iain MacLellan scored from the rebound, his effort was correctly ruled out by referee Andy MacLean for offside. Will Cowie thumped a John MacKenzie cross from the left into the roof of the net to make it 5-0 on 84 minutes and Skye will now host Col Glen in the next round. |