Edinburgh City U19's saved their poorest performance of the season to exit the Scottish Youth cup at Dumbarton.

Dumbarton went ahead with only 5 mins on the clock after the City defence failed to clear a Dumbarton attack. The ball was played to the edge of the box by the Dumbarton forward for the onrushing midfielder to smack home the ball from the edge of the box.

City almost equalised from a corner by Danny Denholm which was met by the head of Shaun Harrison whose header crashed of the bar and over to safety. Worse was to follow after 20 mins, when City were caught out in possession on the edge of their own box and the Dumbarton winger skipped passed 2 challenges to swing in a cross from the left hand side of the box to the far post for the Dumbarton forward to head home.

City pulled a goal back when Robbie Dunn broke into the box and was upended by the big Dumbarton centre half. Dunn coolly slotted away the resultant penalty to make the score 2-1 at half time.

After the restart City found themselves 3-1 down when a neat Dumbarton move punished slack marking in the City defence for their forward to slip the ball past the City keeper Craig Strong. City almost pulled a goal back when Peter Stenhouse found himself with space in the box only to see his shot crash against the Dumbarton bar. City thought they had scored a second goal when Danny Denholm met a cross from the right hand side to power a header in to the net. To everyone's disbelief the goal was disallowed by the referee as Denholm was adjudged to have fouled the Dumbarton defender.

City scored a second goal from a corner with an acrobatic overhead kick from Ian McFarland to make the score 3-2. Unfortunately, it was all too late as the final whistle sounded the end of the match. Good Luck to Dumbarton in the next round as the best team won on the day and City can have no complaints about the outcome.