STONEHAVEN travelled to Dyce on Tuesday night searching for a badly-needed victory.
The first half was evenly matched with most of the play in midfield, Dyce having a slight advantage which resulted in two good chances which brought the best out of Stonehaven goalkeeper Michael Smith.
Stonehaven lost top goalscorer Martin Foy earl
y in the game to a bad leg injury to be replaced by Pirie.
On 35 minutes Stonehaven set up a rare attack and the ball fell to Martin Brooks who struck a fierce shot to beat the keeper but not the post.
Ten minutes later Dyce cleared from defence, and Nish scored to give them a half-time lead.
Stonehaven scored almost from the kick-off.
Nice interplay down the middle finished with Brian ROBB netting low in the right hand corner to make honours even.
Dyce stormed forward from the kick -ff and caught Stoney on the hop to score and regain their lead – after this Stonehaven lost impetus and Dyce finished the stronger and deserved the win.
Stonehaven entertain Turriff in the league at Glenury on Saturday at 2.30pm.
Final Score: Dyce 2 - Stonehaven 1
STONEHAVEN: Smith, Strachan, Craig, McGregor, Barbour, Sinclair, Brooks, Stephen Robertson, Foy, Glass, Robb. Subs - Pirie, Low, Burnett, Stewart.
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