Bryan McKiddie almost doubled the Scorries lead shortly
afterwards but Blair Duncan managed to clear his effort off the line.
On the half hour another good chance fell to Academy.
McKiddie broke into the box and Bokas saved his shot but fumbled the ball.
Henstridge snapped the loose ball up and rounded the keeper but Darren Pullen
saved the day by clearing off the line.
With 41 minutes gone Golspie levelled the scores. They
forced 2 corners, the second one falling to Tommy Campbell in the middle of the
box and he rifled home past a helpless More.
1 – 1
2 minutes later it looked as if an upset could be on the
cards as Golspie were awarded a penalty kick with Aaron Smith going down in the
box with a clip to his heels under a challenge from Alan Sinclair and Stewart Ross.
Pullen took the spot-kick and sent More the wrong way.
2 – 1
Half Time 2 – 1
Academy started the second half on the attack and Gary
Farquhar hit a 35 yard drive that just whistled past Bokas’s right hand post.
A minute later and Farquhar this time found the net. Gary
Manson supplied a cross into the box from the left, Henstridge got his head to
it to flick it on, and Farquhar ran in at the back post to drill it home from
12 yards out.
2 – 2
In the 68th minute Gary Manson almost had a
repeat of his earlier goal, when he curled a shot from wide on the left, but this time it
went just past Bokas’s left hand post.
Gary Farquhar got his second of the game a minute later
after Golspie failed to clear a ball delivered into their box by Davie Cowie,
and Farquhar pounced on the loose ball and stuck it home from 4 yards out.
2 – 3
Golspie kept battling, and to their credit had 3 good chances
to take something out of the game before referee Fraser blew the final whistle.
Cooper got a touch on the ball from a Golspie corner that More saved well with
his feet, and More again made a good save to deny Scott Wilson who had cut in
from the right wing and had a good effort on target. Golspie’s final attempt
came with a minute of play left, the Academy defence napping on a ball sent deep
into the box and Wilson
ghosted in unmarked and got a shot on target, but More again denied him as he
smothered the ball.
Academy had the last of the action when referee Fraser awarded
an indirect free-kick inside the Golspie penalty box, after John Smith was adjudged to have made a pass-back to Bokas, but Academy couldn’t capitalise
from it.
Full time 2 – 3
