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The Scottish trophy officially kicks off next week but Hole in the Wa started their journey a week early as they travelled to face Lochgreen, but were behind after 3 minutes and 4.0 down by half time. Some second half changes saw them give a better account of themselves and two goals in two minutes around the hour mark from Kris Shannon and Dale Talaszko gave them hope but with ten minutes to play Lochgreen hot a fifth on the break to wrap up the tie. It rounded off a bad week for the Wa who slipped to defeat against Palmerston Colts midweek. Colts opened the scoring through Ryan Beattie on ten minutes and added a second on the quarter hour mark with Mark Carruthers on target. Five minutes form half time Jordan Barker broke to add a a third and the Wa keeper saw red for his remonstrations, Colts added a fourth before the break with Jordan barker getting his second. Two early second half goals from Brad Henderson and Ellis McLachlan put Colts out of sight before Eddie McKeand pulled one back fro the Wa. A Darren Kerr penalty added to Colts tally, with Islam Kadyrov netting a consolation for Wa a couple of minutes later but a second Brad Henderson goal and another Darren Kerr penalty in the last two minutes gave Palmerston a thumping victory. Colts picked up another three points at the weekend as Ellis McLachlan grabbed an early goal and Chris Nelson netted twice before Lewis Lamb pulled one back for Dumfries Athletic. Chris Nelson completed his hat trick with the last kick of the game. Those wins leave Colts tucked in behind the top two, Five Arches Bombers and Scaur who drew on Thursday night. Gary White netted for the Bombers before with Rab Menzies levelling for Scaur, who top the table on goal difference thanks to a thumping victory over Crichton Campus with four goals for Rab Menzies, a hat trick for Jamie Rae and doubles for Rees Brown and Matt Coleman and goals from Matty Thomson, Mathew Godridge and Kieran Hair. Chris Bailey grabbed a treble in response for the Campus. The Bombers weren't as convincing but they picked up three hard earned points against a strong Nithside. Kenni Dinnel, Tam Coles and a goal from a trialist gave Five Arches the win in a ding dong battle, as Michael McGhie and Sandy Kennedy netted for Nithside, Annan Town may currently sit fourth but they are the only team with a 100% record. They won the midweek Annan derby with goals from John Campbell, Craig Smith, Ian MacDonald and Liam Grimley and a brace from Stuart Holmes; Chris Norval and Dion Irving replied for FC Annan. Town recorded a third straight win as they saw off Summerhill by four goals to two thanks to John Campbell, Dale Muir, Craig Smith and Andy Shannon. Summerhill responded through Danny Heron and Stuart Hannah. Summerhill did pick up three points midweek at the expense of Dumfries with Liam Watson and Ryan Harper scoring the goals. Ruthwell Rovers picked up two wins in a week, Callum Sloan opened the scoring midweek before Chris Bailey and Jordan Brown put Riverside ahead. Rovers came back and equalised through Jamie Robson from the spot and Josh Davidson scored to give them all three points. On Sunday Luca Pagani and Owen Brown had Ruthwell two up at halftime against Riverside, John Dalgliesh, Jamie Robson and Paul Otway put them further ahead before Luke Broadhurst pulled one back. Fynn Turner made it six but Luke Broadhurst got a second for Riverside before Paul Otway rounded off the scoring. Riverside did pick up three midweek points as Luke Broadhurst grabbed a hat-trick, Jonny Richardson bagged a brace and Stewart McMillan scored as Scott Milne and Dougie Rae replied for Normandy Star. Normandy's tough start continued on Sunday as they travelled to Beattock to face a rampant Moffat team who saw Julian Mills hit a treble, Craig Smith a double and Damon Campbell, Andy Dempsey, Jamie Carlyle, Robert Telfer and Jon Muir all on target as well as an own goal, with Corrie Henderson grabbing a consolation for Star. The final game to report on was a six goal thriller between Morton Thistle and FC Annan. Ewan Buchanan opened the scoring for Morton before Dion Irving levelled. Jordan Gilmour pounced to send Morton in ahead at the break and scored again on the hour mark. Brady Irving pulled one back with ten minutes to play and Dave O'Connor smashed home a 92nd minute equaliser to earn a point.