Airdrie United came off the blocks quickly and with only two minutes on the clock, Willie McLaren struck to give us the equaliser. Graeme Holmes sent a ball through the Raith Rovers defence that allowed McLaren to shoot past the keeper and the much-deserved equaliser was ours.
The match turned in to a mid-field battle and both teams had chances, Graeme Holmes gave us a lot of composure in the middle of the park and McKeown fought for every ball. McDougall ran and spun the Raith defence repeatedly but we still could not break the defence down. McLaren used his speed to our advantage but still nothing.
Then on seventy-three minutes, Garry Twigg made a decisive tackle just outside the Rovers penalty box. The ball broke to Graeme Holmes who slid the ball in to Bryan Prunty. Bryan circled the Brown in goals and slid the ball home from an acute angle. Making it two assists for Holmes, Bryan Prunty had his first goal of the season and a two - one lead for Airdrie United.
Airdrie United could have scored again will Willie McLaren found himself in plenty of space on the left, Holmes found McDougall and he sent a cross-field ball in to McLaren's path. Unfortunately, Brown was up to the task once again and the ball spun off him and out of play.
Raith Rovers were not out of the match yet and began battling for everything, sitting in the away stand we could not tell whether the Rovers fans had a legitimate claim for a hand ball in the box ruled out, but their players didn't complain to much when the referee gave a corner instead of a hand ball.
Most of the late pressure was generated by the home team towards the end of the game, desperate for a late equaliser, but it was not to be.