Hamilton Academical 3 Queen’s Park 0

Bell doubled Hamilton’s lead nine minutes later when he timed his run perfectly to meet a cross from the right and smash the ball into the net from eight yards out despite a last-minute challenge from Cole Burke.

Queen’s continued with a slow methodical build up from the back, moving the ball side to side, looking for gaps behind the Accies forwards. But with Hamilton’s high press space was at a premium and moving the ball out of defence was difficult for the wee Spiders.

Half-time: Hamilton Academical 2 Queen’s Park 0

Queen’s started the second half much higher up the park and had their first real shot on goal in the 56th minute when Nathan Lees intercepted the ball inside the Accies box, played in Connor Falls, who shot from 16 yards out, only to see the keeper pull off a superb save, diving low to his left to block the shot.

The second period continued with Queen’s having most of the possession inside the Accies half, but not really testing the keeper. Sam MacLachlan was getting some space down the right and delivered some great crosses into the Hamilton box, but a well organised Accies back line cleared most of the danger.

In the 89th minute just as Queen’s were throwing everything forward to pull one back, they were caught on the fast break. The ball was played long out of the Accies defence for their number nine to step onto. He drove forward and squared the ball to Jack Bell who had the simple task of knocking the ball into the net for his and Accies third goal of the game.