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5§ • Pertinent News for the Discerning Wizard • Sunday . 12 November 1999
MONTROSE MASTERS FALL CLASSIC: SCOTS RIVALS BRING BEST IN FIRST CONTEST
By: Margaret Urquhart
The Montrose Magpies won the Fall Classic 310 to 90, defeating their long-time rivals, the Pride of Portree in a short but exciting game at Montrose's home pitch. Scottish National was filled to the brim for this regional rivalry match, featuring some of the most exciting quidditch seen so far this season.
Portree brought an exciting new lineup featuring recently announced Canadian Seeker Pip Parkinson and led by returning Captain Lorna MacFusty, the legendary Beater who took the place of the incomparable Oighrig MacDonald. Montrose played a standard lineup with one exception: the debut of reserve Beater Kal Sharma, replacing the injured George Peppard, whose future remains in doubt after a bludger to the head in Montrose's match against Ballycastle.
Montrose played a heavily defensive game, relying on both their beaters and their chasers to keep Portree's front line away from the hoops. There was vigorous jockeying between Buchanan and King and Scrimgeour and Sharma, the latter of which resulted in Sharma's ejection for Cloving near the end of the game and a return foul for Scrimgeour for Cantankering. Angus Campbell of Montrose took a bludger from Lorna MacFusty but played out the match, and the only other foul was Buchanan for Pantsing.
The match bodes well for the teams' series in the spring, toward the end of this rebuilding season. Following the Classic, commentators expect both Montrose and Portree to build on their strengths for the 400th anniversary Golden Neep contest.
Portree brought an exciting new lineup featuring recently announced Canadian Seeker Pip Parkinson and led by returning Captain Lorna MacFusty, the legendary Beater who took the place of the incomparable Oighrig MacDonald. Montrose played a standard lineup with one exception: the debut of reserve Beater Kal Sharma, replacing the injured George Peppard, whose future remains in doubt after a bludger to the head in Montrose's match against Ballycastle.
Montrose played a heavily defensive game, relying on both their beaters and their chasers to keep Portree's front line away from the hoops. There was vigorous jockeying between Buchanan and King and Scrimgeour and Sharma, the latter of which resulted in Sharma's ejection for Cloving near the end of the game and a return foul for Scrimgeour for Cantankering. Angus Campbell of Montrose took a bludger from Lorna MacFusty but played out the match, and the only other foul was Buchanan for Pantsing.
The match bodes well for the teams' series in the spring, toward the end of this rebuilding season. Following the Classic, commentators expect both Montrose and Portree to build on their strengths for the 400th anniversary Golden Neep contest.