Alan Gow’s under 19s side continued their flying start to the campaign with another six goals and three points against Bonnyrigg Rose at the Albert Bartlett Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Anthony Harris and Dylan Baldwin made their Diamonds debuts in a heavily rotated side, with Jamie White, Adam Aird, Max Heggie and the Williams twins all missing. Burchill and Nimyel also started after not featuring against Ayr United.

Ronald Nimyel started the match brightly for the Diamonds, surging into the box between defenders but firing wide in the end after 5 minutes.

Three minutes later, Mason Chisholm used his physicality to shrug off an eager Bonnyrigg forward, as it initially looked the visitors would go through on goal.

In the 10th minute, Airdrie took the lead – Ronald Nimyel marking his first appearance of the season with a goal after his whipped corner curled all the way into the net with several players, including the Rose goalkeeper, battling inside the six-yard-box.

Just two minutes later, Nimyel struck again - zipping the ball into the top corner in an inch-perfect free kick on the right-hand side of the box, leaving the goalkeeper with no chance.

Although stunned by Nimyel’s quickfire brace, the away side put some pressure on Liam Prunty’s goal. Mason Chisholm was forced to clear the ball off the line as the visitors launched an attack straight from their kick-off, before Prunty was called into action two minutes later when he made a strong stop from close range.

On 24 minutes, midfielder Euan Hamilton was set for a shot by a Nimyel pass from the corner flag, but he couldn’t keep his shot down in the end.

Airdrie grabbed a well-deserved third goal in the 26th minute, when Hamilton drove the ball into the box where it was swept home by Divine Iserhienrhien for his first goal of the new season.

The Diamonds were hungry for more, but Jack Smith’s header was cleared away as it looked to be on target.

36 minutes in, Nimyel came inches away from a first-half hat-trick – gliding into the box from the left wing but thumping the ball off the underside of the crossbar from an extremely tight angle on his weaker foot.

Liam Prunty was helped by Mason Chisholm 41 minutes into the match, when the pair managed to block a goal-bound shot between them to preserve the Diamonds’ three-goal advantage.

On the stroke of half time, Airdrie did get a fourth. This time it was debutant Anthony Harris who fired home from just inside the box, after a good McQueen cut-back set up the midfielder for a shot in a crowded penalty area.

Gow looked to his bench at the break in order to rest legs for Tuesday’s clash with Dundee, making four changes at half time: Walczak, O’Brien, Bonad and Adam Smith replacing Hamilton, McQueen, Iserhienrhien and Jack Smith.

Jacob Bonad almost made an instant impact from the bench within less than a minute of the second half, but his shot was beat away by the goalkeeper.

A Rose defender almost scored past his own goalkeeper when his attempted clearance whizzed just past the post from the edge of the box.

Szymon Walczak would be the next man to find the net for Airdrie, as he took advantage of the goalkeeper being grounded by another shot – taking a tidy touch to beat a defender and smashing into the net from close range to make it five for Airdrie in the 51st minute.

Jacob Bonad almost got in behind the Rose defence six minutes after Walczak’s goal, but the goalkeeper managed to win a duel with the winger to prevent a certain goal.

Dylan Baldwin almost managed a debut goal of his own, but a defender got to Robbi O’Brien’s cross before the midfielder after 58 minutes.

The visitors continued to push for a consolation goal, but Prunty was equal to a good effort as he dove to parry the ball away and protect his clean sheet.

As we entered the final quarter of the match, the Diamonds found the net again. Anthony Harris grabbed a debut assist to go along with his goal, poking the ball in behind the opposition defence where Burchill was waiting to slip the ball past the goalkeeper for Airdrie’s sixth.

Lewis Burchill almost scored an identical goal from kick-off, but his chipped effort this time was wide of the target.

With 15 minutes to go, Mason Chisholm unleashed a defence-splitting pass through to the pacey Nimyel, but he couldn’t beat the goalkeeper who had raced out to meet him.

The away side almost found the net in the 79th minute, but their header skewed just over the bar from the middle of the box.

Lewis Burchill thought he had his second of the match when he smashed the ball in off the post from the edge of the box, but the referee had blown the whistle for a foul against Bonad.

Adam Smith found himself in behind as we entered stoppage time, and he heard the shouts of his teammate Nimyel who was storming in to help him. Smith squared to Nimyel, but the Airdrie winger was put off by the goalkeeper and couldn’t direct the ball towards the net as he looked certain to score.

The referee put Bonnyrigg out of their misery soon after, as Airdrie sealed another impressive demolition job in the CAS Performance Under 19s League with yet another six goals.

Alan Gow’s side will travel to Forfar to face Dundee on Tuesday 2nd September, in what will undoubtedly be a much tougher test, but one the Diamonds will be hoping to win.