— Results Round-up

In the last appearance here at Balmoral Stadium, we lost out to Dundee in a match of fine margins.

An even first half, during which Michael O’Halloran came closest to scoring for Cove, tipped in the visitors’ favour during stoppage time when Cameron’s long range shot took a wicked deflection and looped into the net. We put in a number of searching crosses, but failed to an unfortunate own goal, Morgyn Neill diverting a cross past Scott Fox with just twelve minutes remaining. capitalise, and Dundee sealed their 2-0 victory when Ashcroft hammered home from six yards on the hour mark.

Given that display, there was reason for optimism ahead of the trip to Kirkcaldy, but Raith Rovers were gifted an early opener, and from that moment on the afternoon went from bad to worse. There could be no complaints about the eventual 6-1 scoreline, our only consolation coming in the shape of Jackson Longridge’s first goal for the club which had briefly offered some hope of an unlikely comeback.

The players had six days to lick their wounds before more Friday night football and a final meeting of the campaign with an Ayr United side which had hammered in eight without reply in successive encounters at Balmoral two months previously.

Then came the first of three successive away matches, the Friday night encounter with league leaders Queen’s Park.

The players put in arguably their best performance of the season, pushing Owen Coyle’s team all the way, and Leighton McIntosh was desperately unlucky when hitting both the inside of the post and the crossbar with two headers. The side created other opportunities, but could not make them count, and we lost out to

Unfortunately, the run of defeats continued.

After a bright start for Cove, the home side took an early lead. Morgyn Neill appeared to be fouled in the build-up, but the referee waved play on, and O’Connor ran free to net the opener. Neill came close to equalising, but soon after, following slack defensive play, Akinyemi doubled Ayr’s advantage.

The manager made second half changes, but we could not find the breakthrough, and Mitchell-Lawson rounded off a 3-0 win in the latter stages of the match.