Hat-trick hero Kane Hemmings insisted that his team-mates created so many chances against Morton that he should have had more.
The former Rangers striker scored on three minutes then added two more in the 38th and 83rd minutes while strikes from Jordan Morton in the first minute and Greg Stewart (72) completed Cowden’s biggest Championship win of the season.
The 21-year-old brought his tally for the club to 14 goals in only 11 games but said that the work of his co-striker, Stewart, and the Cowden midfield gave him so many opportunities.
“I really should have had one or two more I had at least two bad misses,” he said.
“Greg is brilliant to play alongside. He does so much work by creating space and using his brilliant close control and the midfield guys were bang on form opening up the Morton defence time and time again.”
Boss Colin Cameron was pleased with the way his team created and finished chances to earn a result which moves them up to eighth and he praised Hemmings for his quality finishing.
“We brought the lads in a couple of hours early before the match and went out on the park and worked on a few things and they came out of the blocks fast scoring twice in the opening minutes,” he said.
“You could see the confidence rising and we continued to make a lot of good chances, but Dougie Imrie’s goal on the stroke of half-time to make it 3-1 was a bad one to lose.
“However, in the second half we really took control and scored twice and their keeper had a string of good saves so we could have had more goals.
“I was pleased with the way the defence played at set-pieces as that has been an area where we have shipped goals this season, but the work in our own box was first class and that gave us the base on which to build the performance.”
Morton boss Allan Moore said it was his worst result since going in to management, adding, “We seem to play well against the leading sides in the table and in cup ties but when we take on teams around us in the league we let ourselves down.
“We were poor in the first quarter but when we got the goal back on the interval whistle I felt we have given ourselves a lifeline, but we just got worse in the second half and continued to make bad mistakes.”