A young Rangers team were much too strong for St. Cuthbert Wanderers on Sunday afternoon, running out comprehensive 5-0 winners at St. Mary's Park, Kircudbright.
The match was a joint testimonial for long-serving Wanderers Mark Baker and Rodney Niven, and was the Ibrox club's first-ever visit to the ground on the banks of the Solway Firth, some 500 spectators braving the bitterly cold temperature.
Just one member of the visitors line-up had first-team competitive experience to his name - Alan Lowing.
Rangers took the lead in 25 minutes when Borja Lazaro cleverly netted following a neat build-up from Dean Furman and Andy Little.
That would prove to be the only goal of the first-half, but the visitors stepped up the pace after the interval, Little converting a Lazaro flick three minutes after the restart.
By the hour mark the Ibrox youngsters had chalked up two further goals - in 57 minutes Furman fed Little on the right, the latter's cross being converted by Jordan McMillan, then two minutes later Little raced clear on a long through-ball to rifle home number four.
There was just one more to come - Light Blue captain Dean Furman making it 5-0 in 77 minutes.
ST. CUTHBERT WANDERERS Hutchinson; Cairnie, Cameron; Niven, McMillan, King; Gordon, Baker, Chambers, Maxwell, Milligan SUBS Cairne, Lowe, Corson, Mason, Brock, Currie, Davis, C. Anderson, L. Anderson,
RANGERS Reidford (Weir 65); Park, Donald; Lowing, Van Den Broek, Furman; Cherif (Campbell 58), McMillan, Little, Lazaro (K. Naismith 65), Forbes (Wylde 65)