Date	Saturday, 12 October 1946
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Ross County 5:4 Lossiemouth
Venue	Victoria Park
Referee
Ross County
Manager	The Management Committee
Starting 11	1: Fred Newton, 2: Adam Forsyth, 3: Jock Finlay, 4: Alistair MacDonald, 5: John Patience, 6: Frank McGrory, 7: Frankie MacBeath, 8: Charles (Chic) Ogilvie 2, 9: Rossie MacMahon 1, 10: Alick Ferguson 2, 11: Tommy Urquhart
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Ross County 5 Lossiemouth 4 Lossiemouth started at a great pace and for the first ten minutes gave the County defence a hectic time. Patience, Forsyth and Newton rendered yeoman service and it is to their credit that the eager Lossie forwards were kept back. When Ross County did get going they retaliated strongly and in the 12th and 14th minutes they registered twice, Ogilvie being the successful man on both occasions. They were picture goals. Urquhart lost the ball but recovered and sent it across to Macbeth, who centred to Ogilvie. The latter calmly lofted the ball into the corner of the net. Ogilvie's second was a replica of the first. Goalkeeper Gillanders ran out to meet the advancing Ogilvie, who, with great deliberation, lofted the ball over Gillanders' head into an empty goal. At this period County were well on top and both Ferguson and Urquhart had good tries which Gillanders was lucky to stop. A little coolness would have seen County well ahead. Again Lossiemouth took the offensive and Newton had a busy time, but was fielding the ball confidently. When Stewart did beat him it was the result of a miscalculation. Newton apparently thought the ball was going bye, instead it went inside the post while Newton looked at it. Following some end to end play, Ferguson put his side two up again. It was a glorious shot from 30 yards, which spelt goal all the way. Gillanders was helpless. At half-time Ross County deserved their lead of 3 goals to 1. Upon resuming the visitors again opened strongly and Stewart scored a second. Good work by Patience let Macmahon away, but he tried to make too sure and the ball glanced off the goalkeeper for a corner, which proved fruitless. A few minutes later Urquhart followed Macmahon's example. The latter, however, retrieved his reputation, when after a solo run he easily beat Gillanders. Lossiemouth had many dangerous rushes. They recognised the County's weakness on the right and developed it cleverly and effectively. After a collision between Newton and Stewart on the goal line, in which both were slightly injured, the referee, much to everyone's surprise awarded a goal to Lossiemouth. Presumably Stewart was the scorer. With only one goal up Ross County again took the offensive and Ferguson once again came to the rescue with a goal scored close in. Lossiemouth did not lie down and just before the final whistle brought their total to four. All over the better team won, but a similar display next week will not be good enough against Peterhead. It was a scrappy game throughout. On occasions the combining of the halves and forwards and the positioning of the players and short passing went like clockwork. But this only came in spasms. More often the men were at sixes and sevens. Newton made one mistake—a vital one. Findlay was not as good as his partner. Little fault could be found with the halves, and the forwards were good, bad and indifferent in succession. Macmahon is a forceful leader; a little coolness in front of goal will make him more effective. Lossiemouth's weakness was also in defence. The refereeing, to say the least of it, was "unusual.