Fort went down to 10 men just
after the quarter-hour mark. Gary Manson breezed past the Fort manager Maclean
in a surge for goal and in an attempt to recover Maclean seemed to clip his
heels. Referee Frew adjudged Maclean as the last man and showed him a straight
red card.
With 19 minutes played Ross did
well up the wing and fired in an inch-perfect cross for Macadie who shot
straight at keeper Munro.
More was called into action for
the first time in the game a minute later as Sean Ellis was played into a good
position from a free-kick. He got a sood shot off on target but More was sharp
to it and made a good save.
Academy’s 500th league
goal came in the 25th minute. Ross got onto the end of a long ball
and ran it into in the Fort box. He seemed to take a touch too much and keeper
Munro came out to parry the ball, but Manson was on hand to slot home.
2 – 0
Academy could have gone into the
break further ahead but failed to capitalise on several other good chances.
Coghill stung the hands of keeper Munro with a 20 yard attempt, Munro turning
it for a corner. MacLeod headed his attempt from the corner just past the post,
and that was followed by further near-misses from Gunn and Macadie forcing
another good save from Munro in the last minute of the half.
Half time 2 – 0
The second half started as the
first ended, with keeper Munro making a double save to deny Manson at the first
attempt, and Macadie on the re-bound.
Academy’s third wasn’t long in
the coming though as Shearer slid a great pass through the middle of the Fort
defence sending Ross clean through on the keeper and he made no mistake tucking
the ball past him.
3 – 0
Fort’s best chance of the game
fell minutes later. They won a free-kick 25 yards from goal and Martin Kerr
bent his attempt over the wall but it smacked off Mores right hand post.
Academy went 4-up with just over
hour gone. Coghill battled well to win the ball in mid-field, and sent Alan
Sinclair on a charge up the right flank. Sinclair burst through the Fort
defence into the box and was taken down by keeper Munro as he attempted to grab
the ball from his feet. Ross took the spot-kick and buried it into Munro’s left
hand corner.
4 – 0
Academy made their first change
with 67 minutes played with young Grant MacNab coming on for Murray Coghill.
The Scorries went nap 4 minutes
later. Alan Sinclair crossed into the box and Ross got a head-flick on the
ball to send it past an outstretched Munro to claim his hat-trick.
5 – 0
More goals were to follow as Fort
heads started to drop. Macadie went on another trade-mark run up the wing
before squaring into the box for Shearer and his shot came off the under-side
of the cross-bar and bounced behind the goal line.
6 – 0
The clock counted down, but
unfortunately for Fort the score kept counting up. Despite the score-line
Keeper Munro had a fine game, and continued by denying Macadie then MacNab in a
fine double-save before Manson snaffled-up the re-bound to score his second of
the game.
7 – 0
With a minute of normal time left
Academy went on to notch-up their biggest win since joining the league in
season 199495 when substitute MacNab scored his first goal for the Scorries,
back-heeling into the net from close range.
8 -0
Sponsors Man of the match Gary Manson
Pictured receiving his award from Walter Mowat on behalf of the match sponsor Seaview Hotel
