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As we celebrate the club playing its 150^th league game in the SPFL last weekend, the second of our special features puts the focus on the goalscorers, with one man head and shoulders above the others when it comes to hitting the back of the net.

It will shock no-one to learn that Mitch Megginson has been Cove Rangers’ top scorer across our SPFL journey; his total of seventy league goals has the skipper well clear of the chasing pack. Rory McAllister and Jamie Masson are the only two others to have climbed into the twenties, although Rumarn Burrell will surely join them in the coming weeks.

TOP LEAGUE SCORERS

Mitch Megginson	70
Rory McAllister	24
Jamie Masson	22
Rumarn Burrell	19
Fraser Fyvie	15

Only three other players, Leighton McIntosh (14), Connor Scully (14) and Harry Milne (12) have amassed double figures in the league.

Mitch was top league scorer in each of our first three seasons with 24, 14 and 18 goals as we climbed up into the Championship. McIntosh took the honours last season with 8 while Burrell’s 19 has him odds-on favourite to finish this campaign on top.

Up until this season, Mitch Megginson had also recorded the hottest scoring streak of any Cove player in the SPFL when between December 2019 and January 2020 he netted in six successive games, finishing that campaign by scoring in nine of our last ten matches. That record stood until last winter when Rumarn Burrell was successful in eight straight games.

Mitch is the only player to have scored in each of the five seasons since we stepped up from the Highland League, having netted more than a quarter of the 259 total we have amassed in Leagues One, Two and the Championship.

Surprisingly perhaps, we have achieved just four hat-tricks during our time in the SPFL. Unsurprisingly, it was Mitch Megginson who got the first, with Rory McAllister and Rumarn Burrell, twice in the space of three weeks during the run mentioned above, following in his wake.

HAT-TRICKS

Mitch Megginson	5-2 v East Fife	14.08.21
Rory McAllister	3-1 v Alloa Athletic	02.10.21
Rumarn Burrell	3-1 v Stirling Albion	18.11.23
Rumarn Burrell	3-1 v Annan Athletic	09.12.23

*Look out for more features here on the website and on our social media channels this week as we celebrate SPFL150!

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