Injuries and red card see Shipyard stumble.
The Shipyard slumped to a 2-0 home defeat against Easthouses Lily at Recreation Park on Saturday, with two second half goals sealing their fate. A second yellow card for Ethan Bauld on the hour mark only exacerbated the Shippy’s problems, especially as fellow centre back Iain Millar had limped off a few minutes earlier, just after the visitors had taken the lead. Liam Taylor replaced the suspended Ben Anthony and Elliot Jowitt was a late replacement for Daniel Brockie who pulled out in the build up. Unfortunately, young Taylor took a whack to his knee just short of the half hour mark and he had to leave the field in some considerable pain, curtailing his comeback.
Easthouses had a chance in the fourth minute; however, Ryan Couser was quick off his line to avert the danger. Shipyard had a great chance to take the lead in the 10th minute when Mikey Gibb broke clear, but he slightly overran the ball and Easthouses’ keeper Tom Angus was able to save. Shippy did have the ball in the net two minutes later following a flowing move which was well finished by Tony McAndrew, only for the referee to deem him offside. Taylor got caught by a poor challenge that had the youngster in obvious distress and the shouts of abuse he took from the visitor’s technical area were disgusting and uncalled for. Bauld responded to some of the shouts which he was cautioned for, something that would later come back to haunt him. Couser got down low to his left to save a shot from around twenty yards before Shippy almost broke the deadlock through Gibb. A Jordan Galloway free kick was headed back across goal by Millar and Gibby went close as his attempt went just wide. Cammy Bell was also unfortunate as his angled drive drifted wide.
Easthouses opened the scoring in the 56th minute through Logan Imrie when he drilled a low shot into the corner of the net after Shippy had failed to clear the ball from their box. Millzy was hurt in the lead up to the goal and was replaced by Blair Kerr before the match resumed. A couple of minutes later Bauld received his second yellow for a foul midway inside the Shipyard half and unfortunately had to walk. A Galloway snapshot was just wide as Shippy searched for an equaliser; however, it was the visitors who scored again, this time from the penalty spot after Couser was penalised for his challenge while grounded in his area. Neil Janczyk made no mistake from twelve yards. Shipyard had a chance to reduce the arrears late on as Gibb broke through but once again, he was unable to beat Angus from inside the area.
We are at home again next week as Vale of Leithen visit for another league match. Kick-off is at 2.30pm.
Burntisland Shipyard: R. Couser; M. Robertson; E. Jowitt; E. Bauld; I. Millar (B. Kerr 57’); M. James; C. Bell; D. McBay; L. Taylor (J. Galloway 30’); A. McAndrew (K. Crielly 70’); M. Gibb. Unused Subs: D. Brockie; K. Beard; C. McBay; K. Ritchie.
Easthouses Lily MW: T. Angus; J. Murray; R. McQueenie (D. Waugh 74’); A. Garland-McGlynn; R. Kearney; A. Elliot (M. Gilfillan 81’); L. Sives; N. Janczyk; C. Dyet (D. Leslie 81’); L. Imrie (J. Devlin 74’); S. Thomson (L. Marko 81’). Unused Subs: D. Simpson & R. Comerford.
Referee: A. Brown.