Queen's Park 2-1 Dunfermline Athletic: Hosts end long wait for victory

Queen's Park ended a 15-game winless run in the Championship to beat Dunfermline Athletic at Hampden but remain bottom of the table.

Ruari Paton cracked the hosts in front early in the second half and a deflected Dom Thomas effort looped in.

Paton had been denied by a bad offside call during the first half, with the hosts on top for the majority of play.

Queen's Park were poised to overtake Arbroath on goal difference before Ben Summers struck a late consolation.

The injury-hit visitors, who remain fifth, almost grabbed an unlikely equaliser when Josh Edwards hit the side-netting.

• As it happened & reaction from Hampden

Queen's Park head coach Paul Nuijten: "Today is a good result for us and the players deserve that. They've worked so hard every week, for months.

"Togetherness has been there all season, but the last few weeks we emphasised it more instead of tactics. The players work so well together, and we tell the players they need to be hard to beat.

"We started a few weeks ago, focusing on the second ball. This is key for us. We get some luck with the deflection, but the main point is we got to the second ball."

Dunfermline Athletic manager James McPake: "Really poor. You can talk about injuries and people who were missing but, on the night, you need to be all together. For large spells, we didn't do that.

"I'll take Ben Summers out of that, playing with an injury, Craig Wighton again gave everything with an injury. But that's the disappointing thing. For me, it looked like Queen's Park wanted it more than us."