TWEEDDALE once again had youth to thank as they romped to victory at Ancrum.

17-year-old David Lindsay scored three and Jamie Mackay, 16, got two as both continued their impressive early season form.

The win makes it three out of three for the Kerfield men, who sit top of the 'B’ Division table as the only team with a 100 percent record still intact.

And the input of the two scorers is a continuing trend.

Between them, Lindsay and Mackay have now scored 11 of the team’s 13 goals. Lindsay, who trained with St. Johnstone for a while last term, has seven of them – achieved in only three games. The striker turned down a move across to Peebles Rovers in the summer, and Tweeddale are reaping the benefits.

Mackay is playing his first season in adult football having made the move from boys club, and he has taken to it like a duck to water. He scored in successive pre-season games, and has continued to hit the net in competitive fixtures – notching in every game so far.

Ancrum actually made it harder than the score line suggests, scrapping and battling throughout. But they came up against a team on clinical form.

Mackay opened the scoring after a relatively quiet start to the game. Ancrum had the ball in the net first, but this was ruled out for offside. But there was nothing wrong when the youngster shot low and hard into the corner.

'The Crum’ were not just going to roll over though, and it did not take them long to equalise. The centre midfielder flicked a lovely ball over the top with the outside of his right boot, sending the striker clear through, and he made no mistake.

Against Linton Hotspur four days previous, Tweeddale had scored three goals in quick succession to race into a comfortable lead and they repeated that trick here. The similarities did not end there, with Lindsay at the forefront again.

The quickness of his play proved too difficult for both defences to cope with, and here he darted in between the defenders - almost slaloming - before tucking in at the near post.

His second was a thing of beauty, and would surely be up there if 'goal of the season’ was a thing in amateur football. With his back to goal and wide of the box, he flicked the ball over his own head and that of his marker. On the turn, he executed a perfect volley across the goalkeeper in a moment of remarkability.

And he wasn’t finished there. When Mackay was crudely taken out in the box, Lindsay stepped up to seal his hat-trick.

The pace slowed somewhat in the second half. Ancrum probably wondered how they found themselves so far behind so quickly, and Tweeddale seemed content to sit on their lead, although they were still on top.

Mackay rammed home that superiority when he rammed home with yet another accomplished finish, for his fourth in three games.

Tweeddale: Hall (Bertram), F Moffat, Rathie (Thomson), R Moffat, Macleod, McNaughton, Rogers, R Meikle, Collin (Sykes), Mackay (Russell), Lindsay.