Turriff opened the scoring on 26 minutes. Referee Craig
Napier blew up for what looked like a pretty soft free-kick against James
Pickles. Gary Harris struck the free-kick over the wall and into the back of
the net.
1 – 0
10 minutes later the hosts doubled their advantage through
Gary McGowan. Richard Macadie gave the ball away on the right touch-line to Aaron
McKenna who played the ball to the edge of the Academy box where it was
laid-off to McGowan and he shot across Gray into the bottom corner of the net.
2 – 0
Half Time – Turriff United 2 – Wick Academy 0
Academy made a change at the start of the second half with
Lukasz Geruzel coming on for Gary Weir, but it was Turriff who again found the
net after only 3 minutes after the re-start. A free-kick just inside the
Turriff half was taken by Stuart Cumming who picked out Gary Harris who taped
home with the simplest of finishes.
3 – 0
Academy kept fighting and pulled a goal back on 58 minutes.
Sam Mackay tried to play the ball forward into the Turriff box but it was
blocked. Cammy Bowden hesitate in going to pick it up allowing Mackay to nip in
to win the ball and he tucked it under the advancing keeper Coutts from a tight
angle.
3 – 1
Despite the Scorries having a foot-hold back in the game it
was Turriff who went on to score again with Gary Harris grabbing his hat-trick.
Hesitation between Alex Lamb and Alan Farquhar allowed Harris to pick up a long pass played up the right flank and he lifted the ball over Gray into the corner
of the net.
4 – 1
The final 6 minutes of the game were incident packed.
Academy won a penalty when Davie Allan was adjudged to have been fouled in the
box by Robert Allan who got booked for the tackle. Lukasz Geruzel took the
spot-kick and he fired home.
4 – 2
The game ended with disappointment when James Pickles was
given a straight red card for a tackle which looked a pretty harsh
call, and in the resulting melee Lewis Davidson also picked up a booking.
The match ended without further scoring and Turriff go into
the hat for the next round leaving Academy and a healthy away support with a long trek home.
Full Time – Turriff United 4 – Wick Academy 2
