Football

Stonehaven Football Club parted company with manager Ian Esslemont on Friday.

Stonehaven Ladies edged a tense top-of-the-table clash at Links Park last Sunday in a game between two well-matched sides.

Stonehaven Ladies’ romantic journey towards a national cup final met with heartbreak in a pulsating semi-
final which was a credit to the women’s game.

Stonehaven Ladies are through to the SWFL Division 2 Cup semi-finals after a hard-fought quarter-final win at Bishopton last Sunday.

An injury-hit Stonehaven battled gamely but had to admit defeat in the end in their McBookie.com Superleague clash at Uniconn Park.

Stonehaven Ladies made it five wins out of five at the start of this season with a comprehensive League Cup victory at Mineralwell Park.

Stonehaven goalkeeper Fraser Stark saved two penalties in a shootout as the Hive edged out Kirrie Thistle in a seesaw GA Engineering Cup tie.

Stonehaven travelled up to Hall Russell United last Saturday for a McLeman Cup first round tie and eventually ran out convincing winners.

Stoney Ladies warmed up for their forthcoming league campaign with a comfortable 5-1 at floodlit Station Park against a Forfar development squad.

This truly was the game of all games with Stoney doing it the hard way, reversing a 3-1 half-time deficit with a stirring second-half comeback.

Pictured are Hillside Primary 4 football team proudly showing off their new football kit which was kindly donated by Portlethen Funeralcare.

Stonehaven Ladies’ final home game of the season was a footballing extravaganza against a competitive Ross County side.

Genetically modifying Scottish footballers isn’t what Scott Booth believes is required to alter the qualifying fortunes of the country. Change should be resisted on all levels in the Scotland set-up is the firm belief of the 22-times capped former SFA youth coach.

Windswept Mineralwell hosted two hardy squads of ladies on Sunday afternoon as Stonehaven’s extra quality comfortably saw off a more organised but mistake-ridden Buckie side.

Pictured are one of the two new Arduthie Primary school football teams in their new strips.

Pupils from Aberdeenshire’s secondary schools attended a special Young Ambassadors Conference earlier this month which was led by Scottish athlete Colin Gregor.