RHU Amateurs' Colts team carried on their excellent early season form with a thumping weekend win over league rivals Southside United on Saturday.

The Saturday morning side remain in third place in the BOCA Championship table after stretching their unbeaten start to this campaign to nine games with a 6-3 victory over their Glasgow opponents - despite falling behind after a matter of minutes at Ardenconnel Park.

As in the majority of their games this season a slow start from the hosts saw the visitors take the lead within two minutes when a loose pass out of defence was picked up by the Southside forward who rattled it into the net.

Once again though they managed to reply in quick order with Ross Jeffrey's confident strike from the penalty spot sending the keeper the wrong way after the striker was upended in the box.

Ten minutes later Jeffrey was on target again to put the hosts in front when he latched on to a through pass from Molloy to slip the ball past the advancing keeper.

The game switched from end to end as both teams put on a good show and both came close to scoring again. Molloy rattled the bar from 25 yards out and keeper Steve Lewis had to pull off an excellent save to deny the visiting forward.

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However, it was Southside who struck next when they equalised with 15 minutes of the half to go but with no further goals the first half came to a close.

The local lads came flying out the blocks at the restart and found themselves two goals clear within 10 minutes, Jordan Molloy finding the net with two goals in as many minutes which rocked the visitors.

The second was a well worked goal involving some really good work by Court and McConnell.

They increased the deficit soon after through an own goal after a Jack Young corner was headed into the net by a Southside player.

Credit to Southside, who recovered from the body blow of losing the three quick goals and drove forward trying to get back into the game.

For the most part the Rhu defence kept them at bay but with just under 10 minutes remaining they managed to pull one back. However, any chance of a comeback was wiped out when Molloy scored Rhu's sixth and his own personal hat-trick with a couple of minutes remaining.

Manager Jamie Kjorstad was a happy man afterwards.

He said: "It was another very good display from the lads although we need to look at how we start games as we can't keep giving teams a goal of a start.

"However, that being said I thought we handled a very experienced Southside team very well and this will hopefully keep up the lads' momentum going into a run of difficult away games."

Squad: Burch, Brown, Lewis, Court, McConnell, Jeffrey, Molloy, Moy, Milton, McKenna, Adams, Bone, Henry, Scullion, Young, Shields, Kjorstad, Black.

Rhu's Caledonian League squad, meanwhile, had to settle for a point on Saturday after drawing 2-2 at home to Gartcosh United.

Rhu are scheduled to face St Roch's AFC away this Saturday, November 2, with kick off at 2pm.