Moray welfare: Lhanbryde United beat Rothes to climb off bottom, perfect ten for RAF Lossiemouth and FC Fochabers maintain winning run
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A perfect ten out of ten on the victory front has maintained RAF Lossiemouth's position at the summit of the Moray welfare league.
The airmen played host to a Craigellachie side buoyed by three consecutive wins.
It took the airmen half an hour to get on the scoresheet but they hit a purple patch to build up a 3-0 interval lead.
Harry Williams slotted an opener into the bottom corner and ten minutes later, top scorer Callum Devine tapped in from Dean Stevenson's pass across goal.
Jamie McDade then headed in his first of the season from a Henry Jordan free kick to give the servicemen a third right on half time.
Craigellachie could have lay down and accepted defeat, but instead they produced an impressive response at the start of the second half.
Five minutes in, Colin Coutts fired low into the net from the edge of the box to reduce the deficit.
And it was certainly game on when Jordan Gray lobbed in his fourth of the season from 20 yards to pull Craigellachie back to 3-2.
However, RAF Lossie, who tasted defeat for the first time last Friday in a cup penalty shootout with Fochabers, refused to let victory slip away.
On the hour, Dean McKellar weaved his way past the visiting left back and squared across goal for Williams to finish well on the six yard line.
A freak goal put more daylight between the teams, Jordan's corner being turned into his own net by the Craigellachie keeper in an attempt to clear his lines.
The scoring was completed five minutes from time, Devine finishing sublimely on the volley from an Isaac Webber cross.
Lhanbryde United climbed off the bottom with their second win of the season over Rothes A, who replaced them at the foot of the table.
United had got off the mark with a 4-3 success over the Speysiders in May, assisted by a Jordi Mackie double.
The rematch in Rothes was equally tight and Mackie was again the difference, netting his fifth brace of the campaign to secure a 2-1 United success.
Reece Davies grabbed his third goal of the term for the home side's counter.
Champions Fochabers made it four wins on the spin with a 3-0 victory at home to Portsoy.
Declan Clark scored for the second game running with a powerful header from a corner midway through the first half.
Jordan Clark added his fifth of the season before half time, cutting in and slotting home nicely.
Portsoy battled hard in the second half but came undone in unfortunate circumstances when a J Clark free kick hit the post and rebounded in off the goalkeeper's back.
