Stenhousemuir 2,

Forfar Athletic 3

IAN Heddle hit a late double at Ochilview to take Forfar through to a

third round tie against his old club, St Johnstone.

Stenhousemuir were first to threaten when a Lytwyn drive was well held

by keeper Thomson. 'Muir were looking dangerous, and after 15 minutes,

they should have been a goal up when a Mathieson shot came back off a

post and was cleared by a defender.

At the start of the second half, McLafferty took the place of

Clouston, and after 67 minutes, Stenhousemuir took the lead when Lytwyn

headed home from a corner kick. Straight from the restart Forfar

equalised when McIntyre shot home from 20 yards.

Stenhousemuir again took the lead after 79 minutes when McLafferty was

upended in the box by Heddle, and the kick was converted by Hallford.

Three minutes later, Forfar were back on level terms when Heddle shot

home. And two minutes from time, Forfar went into the lead for the first

time. Heddle again was the scorer.

East Stirlingshire 3,

Vale of Leithen 2

(after extra time)

EAST STIRLINGSHIRE began brightly and looked as if they would run Vale

of Leithen off the park. However a goal almost came at the other end,

and 'Shire's Steve Barclay had to look sharp to clear an Eliot Gray

header off the line.

The let-off spurred 'Shire to greater efforts and the Vale defence

made a terrible mess of dealing with a cross ball and big Paul Roberts

forced his way between markers to head home.

'Shire eventually paid the penalty for dilly-dallying when Vale

equalised with a powerful header from George Hogarth.

The home team produced their best football of the night to go in front

again within two minutes. Brian Kemp fed Des Walker who picked out Mike

Geraghty inside the box and he side-footed the ball into the net.

Vale fought back to run the 'Shire ragged before Gavin Selkirk

equalised.

Paul Roberts spared his team a penalty shoot-out by heading the winner

with four minutes left in extra-time.

Arbroath 2, Gala Fairydean 0

ARBROATH finally earned a place in the third round of the Scottish

Cup, and now go on to meet Morton after having defeated plucky Gala

Fairydean at the third time of asking.

The teams drew 1-1 in the first match, and then Arbroath saw a three

goal lead wiped out last week when the match was abandoned at the

interval. But last night Gala, had no answer to the striking power of

the second division side.

The first half was close, but neither keeper was troubled.

But three minutes after the break Arbroath opened the scoring through

Kenny Macdonald. After 59 minutes, Arbroath sealed the game. This time

Macdonald was the provider for Kevin Tindal to score.

Alloa Athletic 1, East Fife 1

(after extra time)

East Fife won 6-5 on penalties

BOTH sides were prepared to attack in this match at Recreation Park,

but in the first half, no-one could hit the target.

It was the same after the break when first Willie Brown tried his luck

from long range, and then Fifer Burns headed straight at keeper Jim

Butter.

With 72 minutes gone, substitute Gavin Tait headed Bennett's corner

against the bar and McAvoy pounced to put Alloa ahead. East Fife hit

back strongly and equalised through Brown. There was no more scoring

until it came to a penalty-kick decider, which the Fifers won 6-5.