Buckie Rovers reach welfare cup final with penalty shoot-out victory over Aberlour Villa
Buckie Rovers reached the final of the WJ Tewnion Cup with a penalty shoot-out victory against Aberlour Villa.
After a disallowed Aberlour Villa goal, Rovers opened the scoring in last Friday night’s semi-final in the fourth minute through Kris Murray.
A red card for Buckie’s Matthew Henderson early in the second half allowed Villa to pile on plenty of pressure.
That pressure paid off in the 93rd minute when Kelvin Main got the end of a corner and forced the game to penalties.
But Buckie Rovers held their nerve and fired themselves into the WJ Tewnion Cup final with a 7-6 spot kicks victory.
Rovers will take on the winner of the other semi-final, which is between Portsoy and Cullen on Friday.
Last night (Tuesday, July 23) Hopeman went 1-0 up against Seaforth in the 17th minute on as a Chris Cooper free-kick was curled into the top corner from 25 yards.
The coastal side doubled their advantage on 39 minutes when Matthew Herley’s blocked shot well in the direction of Logan Urquhart who turned and fired home from 18 yards.
Seaforth were awarded a penalty two minutes after half-time when Scott Mathieson upended Mikey Paterson.
Kyle Murdoch stepped up and struck a decent penalty low to the keeper’s left but Kyle Rowe, with an excellent record in penalties, made yet another telling save and parried the ball clear for a corner.
It was 3-0 before the hour mark. Youngster Liam Petrie hit a strike from 30 yards which keeper Chris Old did well to tip onto the bar - however he was very unfortunate to see the ball come off the bar and hit his back and go in.
The scoring was finished in the 90th minute when Liam Petrie beat a few defenders and played the ball to Iain Lunan, who swivelled and fired into the corner for a final 4-0 score.
