Published: Sunday, 17th August, 2008 12:30
Alloa get off the mark against Rovers
By Iain Robertson
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Alloa 1 v 1 Raith Rovers
Graeme Brown opened the scoring for Alloa.
ALLOA picked up their first point of the season after an entertaining one all draw with Raith Rovers.
Wasps gaffer Allan Maitland was happy with his sides second half showing, “Raith were excellent in the first half, we were better in the second half and thoroughly deserved to get a point,” he said.
The first chance of the game fell to Alloa’s Graeme Brown after seven minutes when he headed a Scot Buist cross wide of the post.
Raith started to dominate after that and would have been ahead in 21 minutes but for a world class save by Ray Jellema that denied Kevin Smith.
Smith did have the ball in the net a few minutes later but the linesman had his flag up for offside and the game remained goalless.
The Wasps Steven Mckeown nearly scored with a spectacular long range effort - with Raith stopper David McGurn stranded - but his 35 yard lob was just too high in 26 minutes.
It was advantage Alloa a minute later, though, when McGurn dropped Pat Scullion’s 30-yard free-kick allowing Brown to nip in and prod home the opener.
Smith had a chance to square it on the half hour mark when he had a clear site of goal but his shot was weak and wide of Jellema’s right post.
Indecision in the home defence gave Smith another chance after 34 minutes and this time he took it, stabbing home from close range.
Alloa started the second half brightly and Jamie Stevenson tried his luck from 25 yards in 51 minutes, but his shot was well held by McGurn.
Rovers Allan Walker hit a fantastic shot from fully 30 yards 10 minutes later that was pushed away by the finger tips of a diving Jellema.
Raith went closest to bagging all three points in stoppage time when Mark Campbell was denied by a goal line clearance from Dougie Hill.
There was drama on the final whistle when a clash between Raith’s Mark Campbell and Alloa defender Dougie Hill resulted in the latter getting a broken nose.
An angry Maitland said, “I’ve got an aggrieved player with a yellow card and a broken nose in there and that’s not right.”
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Alloa pick up first away point