The Shinty Round Up – Saturday 27 October 2018 | |
28 October 2018 Kyles Athletic sealed a second placed finish in the Marine Harvest Premiership, Skye Camanachd U17 and Fort William U17 will meet in the London Shield Final and Dunadd Ladies sealed the WCA Marine Harvest South Division 2 title following the shinty action on Saturday 27 October 2018.
Marine Harvest Premiership Kyles Athletic v Glenurquhart – Points Shared Kyles Athletic clinched a second placed finish in the Marine Harvest Premiership after they agreed to share the points with Glenurquhart from their match at Tighnabruaich. Kyles Athletic’s goal difference was such that they only need a point from the match to finish ahead of Kinlochshiel and Lovat and they take the runner-up spot for the fourth successive season. This counted as Glen defender Ally MacKintosh’s final match of a three game suspension. Kyles now begin the search for a new first team manager after boss James Perlich announced his decision to stand down. Perlich occupied the hot seat for two seasons and had a number of years as first team coach prior to that. Glenurquhart, who didn’t record a league victory all season, now look forward to life in the Marine Harvest National Division and they too will be under new management next term. Iain MacLeod previously intimated that he won’t be in charge next season and the club has already advertised for a new boss.
Marine Harvest North Division 2 Kilmallie W/O v Beauly The Kilmallie second team were given a walk-over when the Beauly second team were unable to raise a side for their trip to the Canal Parks. Kilmallie were awarded the points and this completes their season. The Beauly colts were to travel to Spean Bridge this coming Saturday to finish their campaign against their Lochaber counter-parts but they have conceded that game to; bringing the 2018 league fixtures to an end.
WCA Round Up The Women’s Camanachd Association league fixtures are drawing to a close with a couple of matches taking place on Sunday 28 October 2018.
Marine Harvest North Division 2 Lochaber 1 Inverness 5 Inverness overcame the Lochaber second team 5-1 in their 1.30pm throw up at Spean Bridge. Kira MacDonald scored for Lochaber but five-goal Katie McMillan and a Melissa MacKay strike gave Inverness victory.
Marine Harvest South Division 2 Play-Off Ardnamurchan 2 Dunadd 5 Dunadd were crowned Marine Harvest South Division 2 champions following their 5-2 play-off win over the Ardnamurchan second team in their 1pm throw up at the Taynuilt Sports Field. The sides finished the league campaign joint top of the division and with goal difference not counting, a play-off ensued. A goal from Grace Drummond and doubles from Eilidh Cameron and Leone Airlie gave Dunadd a title clinching victory. Hannah MacDonald and Aine O’Rua scored for Ardnamurchan.
Youth Shinty London Shield – Semi-finals Skye Camanachd U17 7 Kingussie U17 0 Skye Camanachd U17 reached the London Shield Final with a 7-0 win over Kingussie U17 at Blairbeg. Skye Head Coach Kenny MacLeod was without injured defender James Morrison whilst his Kingussie counter-part Russell Jones was minus Dylan Borthwick who was unavailable. Skye took the lead on 6 minutes following a flowing move which carved open the Kingussie defence and ended with Ross Gordon hammering the ball over the keeper from the left of the D despite Kieran MacPherson’s efforts to block. Taylor Matheson added a second just 3 minutes later when he went one-on-one with Kingussie keeper George Taylor-Ramsay and Matheson slipped the ball home. A Cameron MacKay shot from distance on 14 minutes made it 3-0 and Ross Gordon got his second a couple of minutes later. There was a melee in which Gordon felt he’d been impeded but when the ball broke to his side, he lashed it home. William MacKinnon added another following a break from midfield and he flicked the ball home to make it 5-0 at the break. Skye’s Ruaraidh MacLeod played well throughout and he added a sixth straight from the restart with a waist-high shot from around the penalty spot. Ross MacKinnon rounded off the scoring after a surging run forward from midfield and his waist-high shot flew past the keeper to make it 7-0. Brian MacKay was the match referee.
Fort William U17 4 Glenurquhart U17 1 Fort William U17 came from a goal down to reach the London Shield Final, defeating Glenurquhart U17 4-1 at Castle Leod. Donnie MacLennan gave Glenurquhart a 31 minute lead in this one. However Davie Duncan equalised just 7 minutes later with the goal coming from a corner. The ball came into the danger area and came off Lachie Shaw’s stick, dropping to Duncan just in front of the penalty spot and he managed to steer it past the keeper on the goal’s right side. It was 1-1 at half-time but Marine Harvest National U17 player of the year Lachie Shaw put Fort William ahead just 4 minutes after the restart. A good Paul Patterson strike produced a good save but, with the ball bouncing off the keeper’s feet, Shaw was quickly on hand to slot the rebound past the keeper and into the net. Lewis Clark made it 3-1 on 56 minutes. Clark found the net from the left side of the penalty area with a low driven shot into the opposite corner of the net. The Fort gave themselves a three goal cushion just a couple of minutes later when Greig Kelly scored from inside the D. Referee Archie Ritchie’s final whistle signaled another final for Fort William who have already lifted the MacTavish Juvenile Cup this season. |