Yellows remain in title race after keeping up hot streak
Caithness Seconds continued their Caley North 3 hot streak as they made it three wins out of three in 2025 at home to Dyce.
They ran in 11 tries in a 75-12 victory in a game which was reduced to 10-a-side after the visitors travelled short-handed.
Dyce were competitive throughout in the narrow channels but struggled when the Yellows moved it wide.
The Caithness mix of experienced campaigners and promising tyros gelled from the off and they regularly put together some incisive, swashbuckling attacks.
The opening score with less than two minutes gone was from the prosaic playbook, with Lachlan Jardine doing the initial heavy lifting before Tommy Sutherland drove over.
The Evergreens prop conserved energy judiciously but featured in several vignettes, including an audacious back-handed feed while serving as emergency scrum-half.
Further tries by Shane Campbell, Hamish Coghill, Scott Mackay and Jardine, all improved by Jamie Mowat, had the home side 35-0 up at the interval.
Dyce’s closest riposte was a penalty shot from Cammy McIntosh near the turnaround which came up just short.
Touchdowns from Calum Clark and Will Oag had the Yellows 49 points to the good before the visitors got on the scoreboard with a breakaway try from lock forward Craig Philip, converted by McIntosh.
Caithness responded with a second try for Clark closely followed by one from his brother Cameron, the latter from a deft offload from debutant Torin Simmons.
A well-worked second try from Dyce number eight Reese Melling reduced the leeway but the Yellows stretched away again with closing tries by Connor Allan and Oag’s second.
Mowat was deadly off the tee, converting 10 of his 11 kicks.
Saturday’s win puts Caithness third in the league, with their cause having been hit by a total of seven points deducted for non-fulfilments of away matches versus Turriff and Peterhead.
The Yellows remain in the title race as, though they trail leaders Turriff by nine points, they have played three fewer games.
Turriff took over top spot from Huntly after Saturday’s 47-22 home win over their near neighbours.
Peterhead remain rooted at the bottom of the league after their 59-26 defeat at Fraserburgh.
The Yellows lock swords with Dyce again on Saturday, this time at the Central Park home of the Granite City outfit.
