Skye Camanachd U14 3 Kinlochshiel U14 0 | |
30 October 2012 Skye Camanachd U14 won the Alistair Nicolson Memorial Cup with a 3-0 win over Kinlochshiel U14 in an entertaining match at Pairc nan Laoch, Portree on Saturday 27 October 2012. Skye Youth Coach John MacLeod named a 17 player squad for this 11am throw up but he was without James Pringle who was unavailable however captain Stephen Murchison returned to the side. Angus MacDonald and Ryan O’Halloran were added to the pool that lost to Newtonmore U14 in the side’s last outing. Skye and Kinlochshiel had met twice already this season, winning one game each. ‘Shiel made the better start and when the Islanders took the lead after 10 minutes, it was against the run of play. Full centre Stephen Murchison played a long ball forward which was collected by Conor Ross. Keeper James Smith saved the Skye full forward’s first effort but Ross slammed the rebound into the net to make it 1-0. Skye keeper Ian P MacKenzie was called into action and he made a superb save above his head to keep out a fine effort from Duncan Campbell. A Stephen Murchison free-hit was knocked down into the path of Ruairidh MacLeod and his effort whistled just past the post in what was the final chance of the first half. Skye went 2-0 up just 5 minutes into the second half with a quite spectacular Stephen Murchison effort. There seemed little danger when Murchison collected the ball in the middle of the park but he released a blistering drive which flew into the back of the net and rebounded back into play off the back stanchion. Skye sealed the win a couple of minutes from the end when a 25 yard Conor Ross shot was dummied by Ryan Morrison and the ball nestled in the corner of the net to make it 3-0. The final chance of the game fell to Skye and Conor Ross just missed the chance to complete his hat-trick when he put the ball wide following a scramble in the ‘Shiel defence. The Alistair Nicolson Memorial Cup was presented to Skye captain Stephen Murchison by Alistair’s sister Isobel MacDonald. Skye Camanachd U14 from; Ian P MacKenzie, Shaun Henderson, Marcus Ross, Robert MacDonald, Caitlin MacLean, John Gillies, Stephen Murchison (captain) John MacInnes, Ruaraidh MacLeod, Ryan Morrison, Johnny Laing, Conor Ross, subs Ross Nicolson, Anna MacDonald, Stewart Taylor, Angus MacDonald, Ryan O’Halloran, Kinlochshiel U14 from; (to follow) Match Referee – Donnie Martin The match balls were sponsored by Nor-Dan |