Penicuik Athletic
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Match Report
Penicuik vs Peebles 2.3..19
2nd Round King Cup
Penicuik 5 Peebles 0 Penicuik Athletic: Cordery, Sproule, Baptie, Caddow, Williams, Notman, Somerville (c), Jones, McIntosh, Crabbe, Ponton Subs: Sampson, McCrory-Irving, Young Peebles Rovers: Kerr. McKenzie, Gettle, Lamb, Forrest Smith, Robertson, Dodds, Smith, Sclater, Zavaroni Subs: Hall, Lindsay, Hain, Brown, Sterricks The teams met for the third time this season with Penicuik winning the previous two games. Penicuik started brightly and had the ball in the net in the eleventh minute, but the referee ruled the goal out because of a hand ball. However, seven minutes later Penicuik opened the scoring when Wayne McINTOSH slotted home after a deflected pass fell kindly to the striker. Penicuik continued to dominate and created chances for McIntosh and Baptie but the visitors defence held out well. Penicuik doubled their lead in the 29th minute when McINTOSH drilled the ball into the far corner of the net from the edge of the box. Minutes later a deep cross by Ponton to the back saw a Jones volley dip over the crossbar. Just before half time keeper Kerr was brought into action brining off an excellent instinctive save for a corner. From the corner McINTOSH popped up at the back post to make it 3-0 and complete his hat trick. Half time: Penicuik 3 Peebles 0 Five minutes into the half and Penicuik continued to control the game. A through pass was picked up by McIntosh, he rounded keeper Kerr but was unable to finish off the move. In the 56th minute an inch perfect Somerville cross picked out McINTOSH who tapped home for his fourth goal – the third time this season he has achieved four in a game. In a rare Peebles attack, the resulting corner kick saw keeper Cordery require to attempts to save. Immediately afterwards Penicuik attacked at pace and Somerville’s cross forced Kerr to rush from his line to nip the ball off the toe of McIntosh. In the 79th minute, Ponton drove in on goal and opted to cross the ball rather than have a shot. McIntosh gathered the ball in and his strike went wide of the target with Somerville begging for a pass. The scoring was completed in the 83rd minute when substitute SAMPSON was set up by Crabbe’s defence splitting pass to drill the ball through the legs of keeper Kerr. Final Score: Penicuik 5 Peebles 0