Doonhamer Bistro Trophy heats up

The games came thick and fast in the Doonhamer Bistro League Cup Group stages, with a full programme last Thursday night as well as Sunday. Group C was predicted to be cutthroat and looks like shaping up that way. Palmerston Colts lead the way after seeing off Loreburn Thistle 6-2 thanks to an Andy Gilston hattrick and efforts from Craig Kerr, Darren Kerr and Andrew McNair. Lee Taylor and Rees Brown were on target for Loreburn. Colts followed that up with another six goals on Sunday; Arron Callendar and Greig Lawrie bagged braces and Darren Kerr and Aaron Currie also chipped in with Kelloholm Arms managing a consolation goal. Loreburn Thistle were on the wrong end of a 6-2 scoreline twice in a week as Jordon Barker grabbed a treble for Morton Youth, Islam Kadyrov, Sean Kirk and Graeme Holmes were also on target with Lee Taylor and Connor Docherty replying for Loreburn. It was the second time Morton had hit six after an Islam Kadyrov double, Sean Kirk, Ben Dempster, Ian Christine and Craig Wilson scored to put Park Thistle to the sword midweek. Park were also knocked for six on Sunday although Jamie Simpson had them ahead, Mark Montgomery scored from the spot for Queens Bar then a Ewen Buchanan brace put them in control. Robbie Simpson scored for Park before a Paul Trainor hattrick sealed the win for Queens despite a late effort from Chris Mitchell for Thistle. It was Queens Bars first points after they lost 4-2 to Kelloholm on Thursday, the Queens goals coming from Logan MacDonald and Alister Baird. Group B is also on a knife edge with three teams on seven points. Moffat Thistle and Scaur shared eight goals on Sunday, though Scaur had raced into a 3 goal lead through Chris Gibson, Chris Cloy and Sandy Bowie before Darren Hunter pulled one back for Moffat but Josh Notman restored the cushion. The second half belonged to Moffat though as Niki Frame, Justin Borthwick and Billy Amritage scored to earna share of the points. Moffat had beaten Black Bull on Thursday with goals from Damon Campbell, Adam Kerr, Aiden Wallace and brace from Dale Talaszko, Dean Gallimore was on target for Black Bull. Scaur had a tighter midweek game with a Chris Cloy double and Ally Woods edging out Nithside whose goals came from Mark Carruthers and Stevie Green. Annan Town top the section on goal difference after they dropped points in a five all draw with Nithside, Mark Carruthers, Sean Potts, Ross Kane, Michael McGhie and Thomas Nicholson were on target for Nithside with four goals for Shaun Bell and a Mark Rogerson counter earning a point for Annan. Town had won the midweek derby with FC Annan with a Shaun Bell double, Carl Crosbie, Kane White and Darren Watson scoring to see them through as Dion Irving, John Campbell and Jamie Nixon scored for FC Annan. FC Annan picked up their first points in impressive fashion with Chris Norval helping himself to five goals, John Campbell grabbing a hattrick, Dion Irving a double and Rikki Ogilivie and Corey Bell also on the scoresheet as Shahid Ali, Macauley Smith and Jon Muir scored for Black Bull Rovers. Two wins for Hole in the Wa see them lead the way in Group A, a comfortable 7-2 win at Summerhill on Thursday courtesy of four Terry Jardine goals a Nicky Paton double and a strike from Sean Peat, with Chris Watson and Declan Ramage countering, was in contrast to the late win they had against Dumfries Athletic on Sunday. Despite taking the lead through Mikey Devlin the Wa were being frustrated and an Alan Milligan free kick looked like earning Dumfries a point before Sean Peat popped up late on to smash home the winner. Five Arches Bombers sit joint second after 14 unanswered goals in their two games as Greg Rice and Duncan Smith hit doubles and Alan Bidsall and Chris Ross were also on target against Dumfries Athletic, then Duncan Smith grabbed a hattrick, Graeme Jamieson, and Neil Sturrock scored and a Chris Ross penalty as well as two own goals made up a bad afternoon for Ruthwell Rovers. Normandy Star are also in good shape after they saw off Ruthwell midweek thanks to braces from Mark Cravens and Willie Beattie and an Aaron Halliday strike, Ruthwell goals came from Andrew Shannon and Josh Adams. Mark Cravens went on to bag a hattrick at the weekend as did Kris Shannon and Dylan Irving with Bobby Green and Jordan Patterson also scoring to add to Summerhill woes.