There were serious doubts the day before that the fixture would go ahead due to the heavy rain that fell over the previous days but after an inspection at 9.30 a.m. the pitch was deemed playable.

Bonnyrigg made two enforced changes from the team that faced Tayport last week, with Woodburn and Harvey unavailable it meant starts for Manson and McDonald.
Sauchie settled earliest and they had the better of the opening exchanges, which their best chance coming on seven minutes after a good cross into the box was headed over Patarek’s goal.

Bonnyrigg gradually came into the game and on twenty minutes a diagonal ball over the top of the defence to Currie was cleared well by Sauchie for a corner.
Roseburgh’s inswinging corner was headed only partially clear and the ball fell to Manson, whose quick feet in the box drew a foul and the referee pointed straight to the penalty spot. Currie stepped up to take the kick and had no problem dispatching it high to Halliwell’s right to put The Rose ahead.

On thirty minutes Sauchie were reduced to ten men when an untidy sliding challenge from Bonnes given the conditions left Gemmill writhing on the ground.

Gemmill was fouled again in a similar position two minutes later and the ball came to Manson just outside the box. His shot was drilled low to Halliwell’s right which the keeper did well to parry, and even better to keep out Archibald with the rebound which injured the Sauchie no. 1 in the process.

Bonnyrigg doubled their lead five minutes into the second half when Manson took the ball down his left side as far as the Sauchie corner flag, playing a pass inside to McDonald who beat one Sauchie defender but as he was about to cross the ball he was bundled over in the penalty box. The referee pointed to the penalty spot for a second time and the outcome was exactly the same, the only difference that Currie put it to Halliwell’s left.

The numerical advantage was beginning to tell and Bonnyrigg were finding a lot of joy down Sauchie’s right side. A McDonald cross found Manson in the box on 53 minutes and only for a brilliant save by Halliwell with his feet kept the score at 2-0. This was only temporary however as from the resultant Roseburgh corner the ball was only cleared as far as Mckenna who headed the ball high back towards the corner taker. He passed the ball into the box to Renton whose cross went right across the small rectangle and found White who cooly slotted away his second goal in two games.

Bonnyrigg made it 4-0 five minutes from time when a ball over the top was controlled by Manson whose low shot beat Halliwell on his inside left post.

That is nine victories on the spin for Bonnyrigg and was will please the management team equally as much is that seven of those nine wins have been clean sheets. Next up for Bonnyrigg is a visit from Ballingry to New Dundas Park

Bonnyrigg: Patarek, Horne, White, Archibald, Roseburgh, Manson, Gemmill McDonald, McKenna, Currie (King), Renton Subs not used: Hay, Grady, Burrell

HT 0-1 FT 0-4