The game, played in torrential rain throughout at
Mossfield Park, found the Ibrox youths eventually
overcome the local team who had acquitted themselves
well in the first-half.
It took the visitors fully half-an-hour to open the
scoring, although goalkeeper Lee Robinson almost did
so spectacularly in fourteen minutes when his long
ball from just outside his own penalty area sailed
over everyone's heads, narrowly missing the target.
The goal when it arrived came from Brian McLean who
drove home a slide-rule pass from Mark Kalenga.
With the home side tiring as the game progressed,
Rangers stepped up the pace midway through the
second-half, John Douglas making it 2-0 with a 25-yard
drive in 66 minutes.
Two minutes later it was three when substitute John
Johnstone was upended in the penalty area, Ross
McCormack converting the resultant spot-kick.
Johnstone notched two more in the dying minutes -
firstly in 87 minutes when he went through to slot the
ball home, then when he turned the ball over the line
after Andy Dick's curling cross had come back off the
crossbar.
Team: Robinson; Neilson, Dick; Campbell (McMillan 45),
Vintner, Kalenga; McLean, Douglas, McCormack (Crooks
68), Boyd (Johnstone 65), Gebbie