Cupar Eagles fielded a strong team against Six Regular Guys including new signing Gary Pryde, another product from the Eagles Youth Academy but Manager Marshall was out through injury. Played in atrocious weather conditions with the rain teaming down, a lot of passes went astray. Eagles seemed to conquer the conditions better and raced into a early lead with Halley holding of a defender before coolly despatching the ball past the Regular Guys stranded keeper. Number two followed with Beauchope racing clear and he made no mistake from twelve yards out. Back though came the Regular Guys and McGregor was beaten just before half-time.
With a torrential downpour at the start of the second-half mistimed tackles were flying in and there was some heated exchanges between some of the players as the match threatened to boil over. Regular Guys snatched an equaliser from a defensive error with ten minutes to go. Eagles heads never went down and as they battled to the end Halley scored the decisive goal that their overall play merited, with two minutes remaining amidst ecstatic scenes from the large contingent of Eagles supporters to secure the first three points of the season.
Final Score: Cupar Eagles 3 Six Regular Guys 2
1. Roy McGregor
2. Ally Syme
3. John Mullen
4. Gary Pryde
5. Craig Halley
6. Andrew Beauchope
Subs
7. Greg McLucky
8. Walter Martin
