Rutherglen 0 Glenafton 3

GREENVERSITY
RENEWABLES
WOSFL PremierMatch 20
Rutherglen Glencairn0 (0)
Glenafton Athletic3 (2)Mullen 2, Duncanson
Sat 21 Mar 2026KO 2:00 pmHamish B. Allan Stadium, Rutherglen

Glenafton made three changes to the eleven that started against Troon last Saturday with Jamie Low, Ross Lindsay and David Blyth making way for David Craig, Michael Mullen and trialist Ricky Little.

Glencairn kicked off only for Glenafton to open the scoring in the opening minute. Michael Mullen gathered the ball deep in the home side’s half and pushed forward before laying it off to Lee Duncanson on the overlap down the left, to take a touch before floating the ball into the goalmouth where Mullen outleapt Anthony Maguire to guide a header into the far corner of the net beyond the reach of keeper Ewan Henderson.  Rutherglen 0 Glenafton 1; 1 minute

Rutherglen then enjoyed a good spell of possession in the visitors half. Striker Ryan McManus deep in the box gathered a cut-back from the bye-line only for his low angled shot to be pushed away by keeper Ollie Ecrepont. Soon after, a shot from just inside the box whizzed inches wide of the post although the keeper had his goal covered. A corner from the left floated high into the box saw Maguire win the aerial battle to bullet a downward header into the six-yard box that bounced up and looking net bound only for Ecrepont to pull off a single-handed great save on his goal-line before and Duncanson cleared the loose ball.

The visitors replied with Ollie Rowe clipping a pass down the right for Brannan McDermott to beat Mathew Meechan to the ball before squaring it across the face of goal and although it slipped past David Craig it fell for Mullen only for his shot to fall safely into the hands of the keeper.

On 27 minutes Glenafton doubled their lead with a well worked goal. Craig gathered the ball on the right just inside the Glencairn half and laid it off to McDermott and although the planned one-two was intercepted, Shuggy Kerr won the race for the loose ball and with a defender tight on his back he slipped it back Mullen in space, who in turned rolled a perfectly weighted pass into the box for the incoming Lee Duncanson to meet it perfectly and guide the ball into the far corner of the net, past the advancing keeper. Rutherglen 0 Glenafton 2; 27 minutes.

HT Rutherglen 0 Glens 2

The home side were first to threaten after the break. A free kick was curled round the right-hand side of the Glens wall on the 18 yard-line only for Ecrepont to get down low and push the ball onto the base of the post and out for a corner kick, which came to nothing. Soon after another free kick from 20 yards saw Lewis Bruin curl the ball round the left-hand side of the wall and Ecrecpont at full stretch again managed to touch the ball onto the post which was then booted clear by Craig McCracken.

Back came Afton in lethal fashion. Jamie Wilson gathered the ball deep on the right flank and slotted a pass up the line to Kerr just inside the Glens who quickly laid if off to McDermott to burst up the wing and skip past one defender before squaring a cross along the 18 yard line to Michael Mullen, in acres of space,  lined up a shot and fired the ball between the narrow space of the diving keeper and the goalpost and into the net. Rutherglen 0 Glens 3; 67 minutes.

Afton continued to press to add to their tally, while Rutherglen finished with the closing chance of the game, which was foiled once again with another save by Ecrepont to secure a clean sheet.

FT Rutherglen 0 Glenafton 3

Report courtesy of Glencairn T.V. match highlights.

GLENAFTON ATHLETIC
1. Ollie Ecrepont 2. Lee Duncanson (12. Jamie Low) 3. Ricky Little 4. Craig McCracken 5. Ollie Rowe 6. Jamie Wilson 7. Brannan McDermott (15. Cammy Ross) 8. David Craig 9. Hugh Kerr (captain) (16. David Blyth) 10. Michael Mullen (17. Sam McKee) 11. Callum Wilson.
Subs Not Used: 12. Callum McFadyen
RUTHERGLEN GLENCAIRN
Ewan Henderson 2. Aidan Shields 3. Mathew Meechan 4. Anthony Maguire 5. Ben Hobbs 6. Sean McGuire 7. Anthony Brady 8. David Leadbetter 9. Ryan McManus 10. Ryan Carlin 11. Lewis Bruin. Subs 23. Aaron McTaggart (gk) 12. Boris Melingui 14. Joshua Gemmel 15. Michael Foley 16. Allan Woodhouse

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