6th March 2010 -HL Cup - Preliminary Round	Harmsworth Park, Wick
Wick Academy F.C.	2 (Stewart Ross 59, David Allan 120)
Team:  Alan Bokas, Shaun Sinclair, Gary Manson(Ross Allan 94), Alan Farquhar, Stewart Ross, Craig Shearer(Bryan McKiddie 38), Martin Gunn, Sam Mackay, David Allan, Richard Macadie, Gary Weir.  Subs: Bryan McKiddie, Andrew Macleod, Alex Lamb, Ross Allan, James More.
Huntly F.C.	1 (Ritchie Taylor 24)
Team: Neill Hastie, Myles Brownhill, Simon Scott, Martin Skinner(Alan Redford 80), David Booth, Mark Gray, Russell Gould, Michael McGinlay(Andrzej Kleczkowski 82), Michael Ewen, Ritchie Taylor(Ross Bremner 82), Colin Robertson. Subs: Andrzej Kleczkowski, Ross McKenzie, Stuart Soane, Alan Redford, Ross Bremner.
Referee:	Craig Sim
Bookings:	Simon Scott (Red) 36  David Allan 36  David Booth 44  Gary Manson 69  Sam Mackay 85  Martin Gunn (Red) 90+1
Match Sponsors Man of the Match:	Stewart Ross

The Harmsworth crowd were treated to a classic Cup tie today, with David Alan sending the Scorries through to the next round with the last kick of the ball. The game had everything; excitement, controversy, two red cards, a screamer of a free-kick and the inevitable last gasp winner.

Academy started the game on the front-foot and within a minute Manson chipped the ball over the top of the Huntly back-line. Macadie picked it up at the right hand corner of the box but blazed his right foot attempt over the top of the Huntly net.

Ritchie Tayor thought he was in on goal for Huntly a minute later but Gunn threw his body on the line with a great tackle to deny the striker a crack at goal.

Shearer was the next to try his hand in the 22^nd minute when he had a long-range attempt but it flew straight into the arms of keeper Hastie.

Ritchie Taylor and Colin Robertson combined with 24 minutes of the tie played to give the visitors the opener. Robertson supplied the cross and Taylor ghosted in un-marked and nodded home past an out-stretched Bokas.

0 - 1

Academy should have levelled the tie 2 minutes later. Mackay provided a great ball into the Huntly box and Weir was millimetres from getting a toe on it to knock it into an empty net.