North junior football: Burghead Thistle end Buchanhaven Hearts winning run, Rothie Rovers close in on leaders
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Burghead Thistle returned to winning ways in North Region Junior football's Championship with a fine win over on-form Buchanhaven Hearts.
The Peterhead visitors to Forest Park had won each of their previous four league matches to climb the table, but found Thistle a tough nut to crack.
The Moray side took the lead through Finlay Nicol's eighth goal of the season, taking a throw-in and beating his marker before firing into the top corner.
Leading 1-0 at the break, Burghead were on the scoresheet again early in the second half.
Good lead-up play by Rorie MacLeod and a driven ball by James Fraser was finished off by Kelvin Mackenzie - his seventh of the campaign.
Victory was secured in spectacular fashion by Andrew Stewart, celebrating his return to the club by bulleting a 25-yard free kick into the top corner to clinch a 3-0 victory.
Dufftown are still looking for their first Premier League win of the season and lost 5-1 at home to Montrose Roselea, Finlay Stables getting the Toonsers' goal.
Sunnybank lead the way in the Championship after a 5-1 win at home to Forres Thistle.
The Aberdeen outfit started well and opened the scoring through Kevin Robertson after 15 minutes.
Forres livened their game immediately and five minutes later a little chip through to Brandon Hutcheson allowed him to sidestep the goalie to equalise.
A screamer by Josh Petrie restored the home advantage and Robertson added his second from the penalty spot to make it 3-1 before half time.
Robertson netted with a rocket shot for his hat-trick and Adam Reid curled in a fine free kick near the end to seal a convincing win for the Bankies.
Rothie Rovers won 2-0 at Deveronside to record their seventh straight Championship win - the last six without conceding a single goal.
The rampant Rothienorman side sits just a point behind leaders Sunnybank with two games in hand.
First half goals by Craig Smith and Shaun Faskin earned Rovers the full points in Macduff.
A goal by Brodie Christie wasn't enough to avoid defeat for Islavale as they went down 3-1 at home to Banks O' Dee.
New Elgin are going through a difficult spell and made it ten defeats in a row when they lost 3-0 at Aberdeen University.
They sit joint bottom along with Lossiemouth United, who were defeated by the same scoreline at Glentanar.
