Shinty round-up - Saturday June 8 2024

Glasgow Mid Argyll 6 
Bute 0 

 

Glasgow Mid Argyll (GMA) won through to the Artemis Macaulay Cup semi-finals with a comfortable 6-0 victory over Bute in their 1.30pm-throw up at Peterson Park.

 

GMA’s Finlay Ralston returned, having missed the previous week’s game as a result of work commitments, but Cailean MacLeod and John McNulty remained out through longer-term injuries. Bute’s Scott Harvey completed his three-game ban.

 

Craig Anderson gave GMA a 2-0 interval lead with strikes on 11 and 24 minutes. 
Calum McLay added a third a couple of minutes into the second half, whilst man of the match John Sweeney made it 4-0 on 63 minutes. 

 

Calum Morrison on 75 minutes and Ruairidh Ralston in the final minute completed the scoring. 

Mowi National Division 

 

Inveraray 3 
Col Glen 2 

 

Familiar foes Inveraray and Col Glen met at the Winterton,  with the hosts holding off a Col Glen fightback to win 3-2. 

 

Inveraray’s Ruaraidh Graham was missing and he could be out for the rest of the season. 

 

Graham needed five stitches to a knee wound following the previous week’s win over Kilmallie and an x-ray later confirmed a fractured kneecap. Recovery is expected to be between three and six months. 

 

Col Glen’s Scott Symons began a two-game suspension.

 

Campbell Watt scored the only goal of the first half on 36 minutes, with Ewan Donnan adding two more on 50 and 60 minutes. 

 

Scott MacVicar pulled a goal back on 65 minutes, with Sam Bulloch making it 3-2 five minutes later. 
The win lifts Inveraray to third in the table. 

 

Mowi South Division 1 

 

First played third as Lochside Rovers faced Kilmory at Ganavan, but it was a first league defeat of the season for the Oban side who went down 2-1. 

 

Lochside were still without the suspended Scott MacMillan whilst Calum MacMillan was injured, Fraser MacMillan was unavailable, and Craig Macmillan was with the first team. 
Jamie Anderson returned and was Lochside’s best player on the day. Kilmory’s Craig Taylor began a two-game ban. 

 

Lochside started with the wind in their favour, but it was Kilmory who led at the break through Sandy Leiper on 29 minutes, punishing the Oban side for not clearing their lines. 

 

Euan Gilmour added a second with a penalty into the top corner of the net five minutes after the re-start. 
Lewis Buchanan pulled a goal back on 63 minutes and Lochside went on to have their best period in the match but couldn’t find a way past the excellent Steven Gilmour in the visiting goal, so Kilmory took both points. 

 

Lochside were due to travel to Peterson Park this Saturday to play the Glasgow Mid Argyll second team in the league but GMA have a rearranged HIS Sutherland Cup tie against the Newtonmore second team. 

 

Lochside assistant manager Duncan MacMillan said: “We just didn’t play well and maybe the result will come as a bit of a reality check. 

 

“We can’t just turn up and expect to win games. We need to show more than that. I know we were missing boys, but we certainly had enough to win the game.

 

“We had a reasonable shout for a penalty in the first half but it would have been against the run of play. The better team won but the league title is still in our hands. 

 

“With this week’s game now rearranged, it doesn’t look as if we’ll have a match until Saturday July 6.”  

 

The Glasgow Mid Argyll juniors beat the Kyles Athletic juniors 4-1 at Tighnabruaich. 

 

Dunkie Kerr scored for the home side but Ryan MacKenzie’s double and efforts from Donald Fletcher and Mark Bain gave GMA the win and they are now just two points behind leaders Lochside. 

 

Ballachulish won 4-0 against Aberdour at Silversands. 

 

Lewis Moran scored on seven  and 37 minutes, either side of a Pat MacLean goal on 34 minutes. Grant Symmers made it 4-0 on 73 minutes.

Mowi South Division 2 

 

The Inveraray juniors lost in the league for the first time this season, going down 8-2 to Tayforth in their noon throw-up at Peffermill. 

 

Tayforth gained the earliest of advantages with former Lochcarron player Niall Arnott scoring on one and three minutes. 

 

Alex Burton on 15 minutes and Donald MacInnes on 21 minutes made it 4-0. Niall Arnott completed his hat-trick on 34 minutes to make it 5-0 at the break and Steven Stewart added a sixth on 55 minutes. 
Gerard McKinlay pulled a goal back on the hour and a second from Donald MacInnes on 71 minutes and a fourth from Niall Arnott made it 8-1 on 76 minutes. 

 

Inveraray’s Andrew McMurdo had the final say when he made it 8-2 on 82 minutes. 

 

The Bute seconds beat the Aberdour seconds 3-0 at the Meadows. David Whitelaw scored two early goals on 14 and 18 minutes with Aaran MacFarlane making it 3-0 20 minutes from time. 

 

Strachur-Dunoon defeated Uddingston 5-0 at Strachurmore. 

 

Angus Campbell bagged a brace on 12 and 32 minutes, either side of efforts from Rhys Campbell on 15 minutes and Cairn Limbert five minutes later. Andrew Rossi scored the only goal of the second half on 66 minutes. 

 

The sides also contested the Colin Cameron Memorial Quaich which remembers shinty stalwart Colin Cameron, the founder and first manager of the Strachur-Dunoon senior team, who died in June 2022. Strachur-Dunoon were the holders having beaten Uddingston 6-2 in the inaugural event last year. Strachur-Dunoon captain Ollie Adrian lifted the trophy.

Women’s Camanachd Association

 

Mowi National Division

 

Dunadd 8 
Ardnamurchan 2

 

Dunadd secured their first league win of the season, beating Ardnamurchan 8-2 in their 1pm throw up at MacRae Park.

 

Rosie Hetherington scored four times for Dunadd with Rhian McCuig adding two more and Eilidh Cameron and Abby Anderson getting the others. Sally Paterson and Layla Orr MacIntyre countered for Ardnamurchan.

 

Glasgow Mid Argyll 7 Aberdour 1

 

Glasgow Mid Argyll defeated Aberdour 7-1 in their noon throw-up at Peterson Park.
Beth MacLellan grabbed a hat-trick whilst Millie MacRae, Joan Nicholson, Ali MacVicar and Rachel McCafferty got the others.

 

Mowi South Division 2

 

Tayforth stay top of the league after beating Inveraray 4-1 at Peffermill. 

 

Siobhain Lane volleyed Tayforth into the lead with the only goal of the first half. 

 

Jayne Young equalised but Siobhain Lane got her second before Liz Brown beat her marker to make it 3-1.

 

Siobhain Lane completed her hat-trick to round off a good day for the hosts. 

 

All throw-ups were at 2.30pm unless the match report states differently.