Right royal thumping at Dunipace ends Hawick Royal Albert United's hopes of further progress in King Cup
Hawick Royal Albert United’s hopes of offsetting a woeful East of Scotland Cup qualifying campaign with further progress in the King Cup were shattered by Dunipace on Saturday.
The Borderers were beaten 9-0 by their East of Scotland Football League first division conference A hosts in that third-round tie.
Marty Wright and David Grant got four goals each, with Sam Colley adding another.
That was the conference B basement side’s third defeat by that margin or more in their last three games following a 10-0 thumping by Tranent Juniors the weekend before and 9-0 loss to Syngenta seven days earlier in their league cup pool.
Next up for United is a trip to Fife for a league game away to third-bottom Lochgelly Albert this Saturday, with kick-off at 3pm.