Buckie Inflict Academy�s Second Defeat In A Week

17th April 2011

Buckie Thistle....4.......Wick Academy...1 (half-time 1-1)
Reporter - Noel Donaldson

ANOTHER painful result for Wick Academy players and fans might be forgiven if they wished that the season was over.

With a makeshift side, minus several key members, you would never have gone a bundle on the Scorries to win, if you were a betting person, particularly after Wednesday�s disaster against Nairn, and even a draw forecast would have been long odds.

Buckie opened strongly and forced a series of corners which eventually had to produce something, Lewis Mackinnon heading home strongly from the cross with only eight minutes on the clock. Give Academy their due, they didn�t take it lying down and countered, a few minutes later, through a superb effort by Garry Weir. Despite being under pressure from a defender he managed to dispatch the ball, as he fell to the ground, past the defender and the Jags keeper into the corner of the net.

One all, it remained at the break... but not for long into the second period. Buckie stepped up a gear and Donny tapped in No 2, from close in, in the 63rd minute. A couple of minutes later he did it again, with a fine longer-distance volley.

Buckie were running things, now and Wick appeared to have no answer to their defence-splitting wing play.

Martin Charlesworth sealed Academy�s fate with a fourth goal, to keep the Victoria Park side�s title challenge alive, only a single point behind 66 points Deveronvale at the top of the table.

At the other end, Wick are now languishing fourth from the bottom and earlier season hopes of finishing in a respectable mid-table position have all but evaporated.