Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

Highland League leaders Fraserburgh defeat Huntly to continue unbeaten start

Fraserburgh's Sean Butcher, left, and Huntly's Cameron Booth battle for the ball
Fraserburgh's Sean Butcher, left, and Huntly's Cameron Booth battle for the ball

Leaders Fraserburgh remain unbeaten in the Breedon Highland League after a 4-0 victory against Huntly at Bellslea.

Goals from Sean Butcher and Paul Campbell had the Broch two up at half-time with Campbell netting again and Scott Barbour adding a fourth in the second half.

The result means the Buchan side have taken 22 points from their first eight league fixtures and sit top of the division.

Fraserburgh manager Mark Cowie made five changes to side which lost to Banks o’ Dee in the Evening Express Aberdeenshire Cup on Tuesday night.

Lewis Davidson, Ryan Cowie, Grant Campbell, Paul Campbell and Butcher were restored to the line-up with Owen Cairns, Ryan Sargent, Gary Harris, Lewis Duncan and Kieran Simpson dropping out.

Huntly boss Allan Hale made four alterations to the team that was defeated by Formartine United in the Aberdeenshire Cup in midweek.

Glenn Murison, Angus Grant, Gavin Elphinstone and Reece McKeown dropped out with Cameron Heslop, Caiden Imbert-Thomas, Daniel Critchard and new signing Joel Macbeath coming in.

Home side on top

The Broch started purposefully and looked to pen the visitors in.

Butcher was first to threaten after quarter of an hour, heading narrowly wide from Lewis Davidson’s right wing cross.

However, five minutes later Butcher did open the scoring.

Paul Young found space on the right flank and picked out Scott Barbour with a chip to the back post, although Huntly goalkeeper Euan Storrier did well to claw Barbour’s header off the line Butcher was on hand to knock home the rebound from close range.

Midway through the first period the Black and Golds threatened for the first time.

Fraserburgh’s Sean Butcher, right, tries an acrobatic effort against Huntly

Elgin City loanee Macbeath got in behind the home defence from Alexander Jack’s long pass, but the striker’s first time effort was turned round the post by goalkeeper Paul Leask.

In the 37th minute Huntly lost midfielder Cameron Booth to injury with McKeown sent on in his place.

A minute before half-time the Fraserburgh lead was doubled with Paul Campbell taking Barbour’s lay-off in his stride and lashing a right-footed shot into the net via the left post from 25 yards.

Broch add to their lead

The hosts didn’t let up at the start of the second half with Ryan Cowie just failing to connect with Paul Campbell’s cross from the right shortly after the restart.

But in the 54th minute Paul Campbell notched his second and Fraserburgh’s third.

Butcher’s cross from the left was only cleared by Michael Clark as far as Campbell 16 yards out and he side-footed the ball into the bottom left corner.

The Broch were now in complete control and having plenty of pressure around the Huntly penalty area.

Willie West dragged an effort wide and then Butcher headed over as the home side pressed on for a fourth.

In the 65th minute Storrier made a good block to deny Campbell his hat-trick after Ryan Cowie’s corner broke back to the striker.

Fraserburgh’s Scott Barbour, left, and Huntly’s Greg Buchan in action

At the other end Huntly had another effort with Imbert-Thomas teeing up Greg Buchan, who curled over the bar from 20 yards.

But shortly after Barbour notched Fraserburgh’s fourth firing home from 14 yards after exchanging passes inside the box with sub Lewis Duncan.