Glasgow Island Win St Andrew’s University Sixes. | |
07 May 2012 A successful weekend was had at the annual St Andrew’s University Alumni Weekend with a select side playing as Glasgow Island celebrating the May Day Bank Holiday with a fine win in the Sixes Competition on Monday 7 May 2012. The competition sparked memories of classic events of the 1970s and 1980s with Glenorchy entering two teams, a revived Edinburgh East Lothian, the SCOTS, Littlejohn Vase winners Edinburgh University, the new Cornwall side, an Alumni side as well as fiv St Andrews teams also competing alongside Glasgow Island which was a select of players with Lewis and Skye connections, including Eòghan Stewart and Kerr Gibb. There was glorious sunshine for the group stages after some hail in the morning. Glasgow Island progressed undefeated through the group stages and it was uneventful other than being told off for speaking Gaelic together in one game by a referee who considered it unsporting. There was also an historic game between the Gaels of Scotland and the Celts of Cornwall to decide who would qualify. There was an intrepid reappearance by Edinburgh East Lothian, who having folded in 2007 resurrected their old sky blue strips, reunited some of their old players and powered through their group. With the weather beginning to worsen, Edinburgh and Glenorchy A emerged from a strong five team group to play Glasgow Island and EEL respectively. Despite both teams falling behind to early goals, Glasgow to Edinburgh and Lochcarron’s Finlay Stark, both Island and Orchy pulled back their deficits to eventually win comfortably in the semi finals. This set up a corking final which saw the Marine Harvest South Division One side Glenorchy take the lead through a penalty conceded by Island goalkeeper Eòghan Stewart. However super-sub Ally Lamont, grabbed a terrific equaliser in the second half to take the game to penalties. Glenorchy saw their first two saved before Scott Murray scored the winning penalty. With the legendary Fingal Shield allegedly in Kilmallie, the winning team was instead presented with a replacement trophy. Kerr Gibb was presented with the “Red Caman of Kathmandu” as player of the tournament. Glasgow Island captain for most of the day, Kenny Mould said, “We only came for the craic but then we worked out we could win the thing, it was great, especially against a Glenorchy first team. I also found out today that my sister Katy actually played a few games of shinty for St Andrew’s, she’s here doing a PhD.” Earlier in the weekend, in some 12 a-side matches, the St Andrew’s Present Team beat the Old Boys 3-2 but the Old Girls beat the present ladies team. All credit must go to Rachael “Twee-tt” Borthwick for her organisation of the whole weekend which is three days of events and sees people return from all across the globe to the Fife town. Glasgow Island from; Eòghan “Barbie” Stewart, Kenny Mould, Kerr Gibb, Micheal MacDonald, Scott Murray, Ally Lamont, Andrew Grace |