Inverurie Locos 1-2 Brechin City

Cairns (15′) Armour (11′) Findlay (52′)

Mitchell Findlay’s second-half strike lifted Brechin to third place in the Highland League against Inverurie Locos.

Brechin City found themselves ahead early on through on-loan Kilmarnock man, Ben Armour, heading the visitors ahead.

Locos quickly responded with a ball into the box, where there appeared to be confusion between the players in the box, the ball fell at the foot of Ethan Cairns, who fired home.

Both sides had a great range of attacking play, with Locos having the best of the chances but failing to convert a second.

Brechin started the second half brightly, dominating the ball, but was unable to create many clear-cut chances.

The Hedgemen did find a way to go ahead with a ball into the box, which was tapped into the net by Findlay.

Locos injected a lot more energy into the squad following a handful of changes, but were unable to find a second equaliser.

The win moves the visitors up to third with the Broch suffering defeat at Banks O’ Dee. Locos drop down a spot into fifth.

Inverurie Locos: Ellis, Reid, Ochmanski, Robertson (Buchan 72’), Chapman, Souter, Smith (McKenzie (63’), Halliday, Cairns (Bolton 63’) Duncan (Gray 72’), Skea (Ward 63’)

Brechin City: Hepburn, Sweeney, Klimomek (Farquhar 79’), Hutchinson, Spark (Baird 24’), Taylor, Watson, MacLeod, Armour (Tosh 61’), Findlay (McGrath 61’), Moreland