Date	Wednesday, 04 January 1989
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Ross County 1:0 Brora Rangers
Venue	Victoria Park
Referee
Ross County
Manager	Robert (Bobby) Wilson
Starting 11	1: John Sutter, 2: Christopher (Chris) Somerville, 3: Scott Lemmon, 4: David MacRae, 5: Dave Bellshaw, 6: Don Cowie (SNR), 7: Keith (Billy) Ferries, 8: Alex (Nero) McDonald, 9: Davie Jackson 1, 10: Gordon Connelly, 11: Albert Allan
Bench	0: John MacDonald
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Ross County 1 Brora Rangers 0 ANOTHER large crowd was present at Victoria Park, Dingwall, for their second “holiday” fixture on Tuesday of this week, when Brora Rangers were the attractive visitors. There was a first-class gesture on the part of the players and management at the outset of proceedings, when team members went among the crowd and presented elderly supporters of their choice with a “miniature” of whisky. It was an excellent public relations exercise, and it was sealed with a hard-earned but deserved three points, bringing a full measure of nine for the three Festive Season games. The “preliminaries” to Tuesday’s match included the presentation of a cheque for £100 to striker Davie Jackson to mark his hat-trick against Caley the previous week. The donor was Mr. Donald Ross, Torvaig, Cullicudden, one of the County’s keenest fans, who was delighted with Davie’s achievement, especially against Caley! The presentation was wildly cheered. Throughout the game, Davie endeavoured to repeat the feat, and it was not for the want of trying that he was unsuccessful. He ran himself into the ground before he was substituted in the last ten minutes, and he scored the only goal of the match early in the second half. He might have scrambled a second, when Nero Macdonald missed a Ferries cross shortly afterwards. Davie scored in the 56th minute, when Scott Lemmon pushed a ball across to him, and he hit it home. Again, County turned on a fluent team display with the defence rushing forward in support of the front-field runners, enduring no end of heavy tackles in a fast, open game, taking play to Brora from start to finish. Graham Stewart, the former County goalkeeper, gave another confident display, often taking the sting out of a promising period of pressure with a timely save. Brora were always dangerous and could never be taken for granted, especially in the closing quarter, when John Suttar twice pulled off dramatic, instinctive saves to prevent scores as he touched the ball away. Perhaps the most spectacular effort of the afternoon was a brilliant diving header by Albert Allan from a Nero Macdonald cross, which deserved a better fate than simply flying past the upright. Albert made perfect contact with the cross, and had it been on target, it would certainly have bulged the net. Again, it was County’s day, and any other result would have been an injustice.