St Mirren U18s booked their place in the next round of the Scottish Youth Cup with an emphatic victory over Caledonian Braves at The SMiSA Stadium.
Goals from Struan Thompson, Evan Mooney and Innes Clark saw the Saints race into a 3-0 lead with just 13 minutes played. Thompson, who opened the scoring in the previous round, slammed home from 12 yards after getting on the end of Mooney's cut-back.
16-year-old Mooney, just two days on from making his first-team debut, added his name to the scoresheet on 11 minutes. He finished low into the net after meeting Thomas Falconer's pass from the left. And it would get better for Saints just two minutes later when Clark headed in Thompson's corner.
Theo McCormick added a fourth on 40 minutes when he swept home inside the area to give the young Buddies a 4-0 advantage at the interval.
Half-time substitute Lewis Marshall's header made it 5-0 just five minutes into the second-half, with a deflected strike from captain Carrick McEvoy adding a sixth four minutes later.
Luke Douglas, who replaced Thompson just after the hour mark, scored a brace inside three minutes with his goals coming on 73 and 76 minutes to cap off a brilliant night for the young Saints.
Full-Time: St Mirren 8-0 Caledonian Braves
St Mirren: Tamosevicius, Penman (Stoddart 55), Clark, McEvoy (c) (Lavery 62), Hutchison, Hunter, Mooney (Farquhar 55), Turner, McCormick (Marshall 46), Thompson (Douglas 62), Falconer
