Tuesday 18 April
Huntly 2 Lossiemouth 1

A remarkable second half fight-back saw Huntly come from a man down and a goal down to claim all three points at Christie Park writes Grant Turner.
The home side were still missing some key players and called up Robert King and Stuart Allan from the under 21 side. Lossie were without the services of 19 goal striker Craig Morrison who was suspended.

The game was only 12 seconds old, when home keeper Ryszard Gorski was forced into saving David Hendry's dipping shot.

The first real chance for the home team saw Steve Dunn make a comfortable catch from

With 18 minutes gone there was a major blow for the home side when defender Lee McGregor withdrew with a suspected broken nose and was replaced by Neil Reid.

After much early pressure, it was the Coaster's who opened the scoring just before the half hour mark when Kyle Stewart's shot was blocked by the Huntly keeper only as far as Tony Ross who opened the scoring with his first goal for the club.

Huntly hit right back and Steve Dunn did well to deny Jerry O'Driscoll by getting a leg to the striker's header.
The visitor's came close to doubling their lead 4 minutes later when Gorski was made to stretch for a Steven Ellis shot from 25 yards.

Huntly's luck took a turn for the worse when they were reduced to 10 men, eight minutes from the interval when Gary McGowan was shown a straight red card by Cammy McKay for an incident only the Referee seemed to have picked up on.

The home side passed up a chance to draw level in 40 minutes when Matty Gairns went on a great run only to fire over despite having O'Driscoll in space at the edge of the area.

Half Time: Huntly 0 Lossiemouth 1

Huntly turned the momentum of the game with two goals in the space of three minutes.
With only 4 minutes of the second half played, the home side got themselves back into the game.
From a corner on the right, Jerry O'Driscoll headed the ball on to the back post and it fell kindly for Neil Reid to blast home from a tight angle for his first strike of the season.

Huntly didn't look like a team down to ten men and they were denied a second goal only by the woodwork. Graham Green looked to have tucked away a shot beyond of the advancing Dunn only for his effort to come back off the post with the keeper beaten.

The black and gold's forced themselves into the lead on 52 minutes after neat play by Richard Craig sent Jerry O'Driscoll bearing down on goal and the calmly slotted the ball past the advancing Steven Dunn for his 13th of the term.

The former Dundee striker almost grabbed a second from long range when his cross from deep on the left wing seemed to heading into the far corner only for an acrobatic stop from Dunn.

Lossie battled back and a ball forward by Ellis in 69 minutes was laid off by Dougie Coull onto the on-rushing David Hendry who saw his low drive trickle past the post.

With the game heading to injury time, Ryszard Gorski made a excellent block on the goal-line to deny sub Stephen McIntosh as Huntly hung on to move ahead of Forres Mechanics into fourth place.