Turriff United will meet Inverurie Locos in the final of the Morrison Motors (Turriff) Aberdeenshire Shield, most probably at Christie Park at Huntly on a date to be decided, after their 1-0 win over Cove Rangers in last night’s semi-final.
Aaron Shand’s seventh-minute strike settled the issue.
But in the 90th minute Cove were awarded a penalty when Scully was brought down in the box by McCaffrey, but the goalkeeper redeemed himself by brilliantly saving Jonny Smith’s spot-kick.
The pair met for the second time in the shield semi-final last night after the first game in the middle of February, which Cove won 2-0, was ordered to be replayed by the Aberdeenshire FA’s management committee.
That decision came after both teams had fielded ineligible players.
Since the original fixture both teams have parted company with their managers.
Turriff sacked Mark Simpson last week after an eight-game losing streak, while Cove’s Kevin Tindal resigned his post after last week’s 0-0 draw at Lossiemouth.
Tindal’s assistant, Graeme Mathieson was in the home dugout while fellow caretaker manager Roy McBain was on the right side of midfield. Turriff United caretaker Mike McKenzie, the former Deveronvale and Cove forward, took his seat in the away dugout.
Turriff had an early chance when James Brownie fired in a low cross from the left, it eluded home goalkeeper Craig Reid but as the ball was about to cross the line Stirling Smith booted it clear.
However, the visitors did take the lead in the seventh minute.
Gary Harris played in Aaron Shand and, as Reid advanced off his line, the former Buckie Thistle forward calmly slid the ball past him.
Cove almost equalised when Eric Watson powered in a header but Lewis Davidson was handily placed on the line to hack the ball to safety.
In the 33rd minute the Cove defence opened up and Shand powered his way through but he shot weakly at Reid from 12 yards and the chance was gone.
A minute later Harris had an ever better chance for United but Reid stood tall and blocked the forward’s point-blank effort.
Five minutes from the break Harris went even closer with a curling 25-yard drive from wide on the left but his superb effort shaved the crossbar with Reid struggling.
Six minutes after the restart the home side should have equalised but former Don Chris Clark’s four-yard header came back of the face of the crossbar with Kierin McCaffey in the Turriff goal beaten.
Clark went closer in the 58th minute but McCaffrey got down well to smother the midfielder’s well-struck 25-yard grounder.
In the 70th minute McCaffrey did well to hold a Watson header.