Aberdeenshire Cup: Formartine United oust Buckie Thistle again, Inverurie Locos beat Turriff United and Banks O'Dee dish out heavy defeat to Keith
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BUCKIE Thistle, Keith and Turriff United have exited this season's Aberdeenshire Cup at the first hurdle.
The first ties of this season’s competition saw four first round ties contested on Wednesday.
Buckie hosted Formartine United, who had defeated them three weeks earlier in the semi-finals of the same tournament which had been unfinished from last season.
Jags lost out on penalties after a 0-0 draw on that previous occasion in Pitmedden and were ousted 2-1 on home soil this week.
United got off to a good start, scoring through Graeme Rodger after eight minutes.
It stayed 1-0 to the visitors until half time and when Jags conceded a penalty a few minutes into the second half, Jonny Smith converted to double Formartine’s advantage.
Buckie were thrown a lifeline 15 minutes from time when United defender Jonny Crawford put the ball into his own net, but Formartine held on to book a quarter-final tie at home to Huntly in two weeks time.
Keith became the latest Highland League victims of formidable juniors Banks o’ Dee, who posted a 6-1 win at Spain Park.
The Maroons were two down inside five minutes when Lachie MacLeod and Michael Philipson scored for Dee. Two Robert Armstrong strikes and another from Philipson took the score to 5-0 after 37 minutes.
Przemyslaw Nawrocki pulled one back for Keith before Armstrong completed his hat-trick to earn Dee a home tie against Inverurie Locos, who won 4-1 at Turriff.
All the goals at The Haughs came in the final half hour.
It was 0-0 after 63 minutes until Callum Dingwall broke the deadlock for Locos, with Andy Watt adding a second ten minutes later.
Turriff heads went down and former player Rob Ward came back to haunt them, netting his third goal of the season for Inverurie on 78 minutes.
Murray Cormack's first-ever Turriff goal gave the home side a glimmer of hope which was quickly extinguished by Kieran Adam's decisive fourth for Locos.
Dyce beat Hermes on penalties after a 2-2 draw in an all-junior tie, earning a visit to Deveronvale in the last eight.
Ex-Buckie Thistle striker Sam Robertson got both Dyce goals, sandwiching strikes by James Cairns and ex-Keith man Luke Barbour for Hermes, who had Grant Mitchell sent off when they trailed 1-0.
