Queen’s Park caused an upset as they beat promotion hopefuls Arbroath 2-1 at the City Stadium to climb off the bottom of the William Hill Scottish Championship.
Partick Thistle had scored a stoppage-time equaliser to draw 2-2 at leaders St Johnstone on Friday night, handing the Red Lichties an opportunity to close the gap on the top two.
Arbroath got themselves in front through Scott Robinson in the 19th minute.
Aidan Connolly, though, soon equalised for the Spiders and Seb Drozd completed the turnaround just before half-time following a swift break.
Ross County slipped to the bottom of the table after losing 2-1 at Morton.
Eamonn Brophy put Morton in front after 19 minutes and Michael O’Halloran’s goal in the 67th minute made sure of the points, with County getting a late consolation through Alex Iacovitti.
Fourth-placed Ayr moved to within five points of Arbroath after they beat Raith 2-1 at Somerset Park.
The Honest Men went ahead in the 28th minute through a free-kick from Ben Dempsey with Anton Dowds firing home a second just before the hour. Lewis Vaughan’s header pulled a goal back for Rovers in the 77th minute.
Airdrie won 2-0 at Dunfermline, who played most of the second half with 10 men.
Euan Henderson’s free-kick gave Airdrie a 14th-minute lead.
Dunfermline defender Chris Hamilton was shown a straight red card in the 55th minute for a foul on Chris Mochrie as the Airdrie striker went through on goal.
Lewis McGrattan fired in a second for the visitors with eight minutes left.
