Youngsters advance in Scottish Cup

DUMFRIES U16s had an impressive seven wicket T20 win over Ferguslie on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the U16 Scottish Cup. Two wickets from both Finley Trigg and Munro Cubbon stemmed the Ferguslie innings and three wickets by Danny Allsop kept the visitors to 73 all out.

Munro and Nairn Cubbon then batted maturely in a 40 run fourth wicket partnership for the win, with scores of 34 and 29 not out respectively.

Fresh from his Scotland U16 debut during the week, Munro was the Lions Club player of the match, and along with Munro, Macey Corbett-Byers also made her Scotland debut playing for Scotland U15s Girls in a series against the Netherlands. At home in Western Premiership One on Saturday, Vigilant Dumfries faced a big total by Prestwick of 322 for 6.

Ben Plowman took three of those wickets. The JC Roofing Dumfries player of the match Adam Malik was once more top scorer, with 30, but Dumfries were all out for 122 in reply.