Stewartry cemented prime spot in Tennents West Division One with a thumping win in opposition to lowly-placed Lenzie.
It stretched their lead over second-place Garnock to eight factors, each side having performed 14 video games. Nonetheless, Allan Glens are lurking in third spot, 11 factors behind the Blacks however with three video games in hand.
So April 29 might see the conflict of the season when Stewartry head to Bishopbriggs for what's shaping as much as be the league decider.
The Blacks took simply 5 minutes to open the scoring on Saturday, a breakaway ending with Ty Wilson crashing over and captain John Picken including the extras.
Stevie Hogg’s charging run was stopped simply in need of the attempt line however Picken was readily available to scoop up and dive over to make it 12-0. On 11 minutes the Blacks have been penalised for a excessive sort out and Lenzie bought on the scoreboard, 12-3.
9 minutes later Robert Austin completed off a high-quality transfer by the backs with the third, 17-3, earlier than Scott Milligan bought the fourth bonus level attempt after good work by Maxwell, Wilson, Armstrong and Austin, 24-3.
Quickly after Armstrong needed to depart the sector for ten minutes after a head conflict with Murray Wright approaching.
With the interval approaching Rory Porteous after which Nicholson added two extra tries with the Blacks nearly taking part in seven-a-side rugby.
Lenzie remained on the fallacious facet of a pummelling within the second interval with Dave Maxwell ending a very good transfer began by Ty Wilson and involving Picken, to notch up 39 factors earlier than Picken himself touched right down to make it 46-3.
Nonetheless, Lenzie discovered contemporary vitality with 20 minutes left and good play noticed them rating on the posts, 46-10, however Archie Nicholson quickly restored the differential, Picken including the conversion, 53-10.
Porteous added attempt quantity ten, transformed by Picken. However in the previous couple of minutes Lenzie had the final phrase discovering some area, when Stewartry took their eye off the ball, to interrupt for an unconverted try to a remaining rating of 60-15.
Stewartry squad: J Picken (c), T Wilson, R Austin, M Yates, S Milligan, D Armstrong, A Nicholson, M McCulloch, Okay McGuire, I McMorran, D Maxwell, J McCulloch, C Root, R Porteous, S Hogg, C McGuire, T McLean, H Carson, M Wright.