Montrose extended their unbeaten run to six matches with an excellent 4-1 victory against Berwick Rangers at Shielfield in the only Irn-Bru Third Division game to survive the freezing weather.
Berwick made a promising start and opened the scoring after nine minutes when Damian Gielty crossed for Darren Lavery to fire past Sandy Wood in the Montrose goal.
Montrose responded resiliently and were level within two minutes as Alan Campbell's flick was swept home by Leighton McIntosh.
The visitors were soon pushing for a second and Jamie Winter's shot flew narrowly over the bar in the 13th minute.
Former Aberdeen midfielder Winter then went one better in the 22nd minute as his shot evaded Berwick goalkeeper Ian McCaldon after Lloyd Young's clever pass.
Winter and Young were both off target with subsequent chances, while Berwick almost restored parity in the 43rd minute but Lee Currie's well-struck free-kick was tipped past the post by the agile Wood.
After the interval, Currie missed another opportunity as his shot whistled wide from Lavery's cross before Wood reacted brilliantly in the 77th minute to push Dean Hoskins' effort wide for a corner.
Montrose then gave themselves some breathing space in the 80th minute – Scott Johnston heading in from a Paul Watson set-piece.
The visitors applied a touch of gloss four minutes later as Young drilled the ball past the isolated McCaldon to consign Berwick to their first home defeat of the season.
The victory moved Stuart Garden's Montrose into third place in the league table as they leapfrogged Queen's Park, whose match against Clyde at Broadwood was postponed due to a frozen pitch. The same fate befell the clash at Forthbank between the bottom two teams, Stirling Albion and East Stirling.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article