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Last updated : 27 March 2007 By Alex Horsburgh

story by Alex Horsburgh of www.internetfootball.co.uk

Cowdenbeath showed they were serious about Division 2 safety by hammering play-off favourites Stranraer at a ground that has in the past proved to be a bit of a bogey for the Fifers in the past.

Pat Clarke's five goals had the statto's reaching for their handbooks on a Sunday afternoon when the Cowdenbeath Supporters Club slashed travel costs to just a fiver for the trip to Wigtownshire. Anyone who took up the offer was rewarded with one of Cowden's biggest away wins in recent years.

JR Smith with 7 v Vale of Atholl in the Scottish Cup of 1922 is still the club's record holder for most goals in a match while four Cowden players (Willie Curle, John McKeown, Rab Walls and Duncan Lindsay, who managed it twice) have netted double hat tricks but Clarke was the first to net five for Cowdenbeath since George Watson in the 2nd Division against Dumbarton in 1935 while Andy Todd (1891 v Linlithgow in the cup), Willie Philp (1914 v Dundee Hibs in Division 2) and Willie Paterson (1920 v East Stirling in the Central League) are the others who have gone nap.

Now it's onto Greenock and league leaders Morton for Cowden this Saturday. The Ton fired in four without a reply at Forfar on Sunday and even had the luxury of missing a penalty.

A hat trick in ten minutes and an opening goal in 13 seconds for Clarke also completed Stranraer's day of misery and their achiles heel this season has been slow starts. Their failure to launch was given maximum exposure by a Cowden side who seemed to have done their homework and made a whirlwind start.

Scullion got the 'Beath's other goal while Michael Moore's consolation won't be enough to keep the pressure off Gerry Bitton. Cowden have already seen Ayr's Robert Connor and Forfar's George Shaw sacked this season after defeats by the Central Parkers.

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