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Shaftesbury 1 (Pitman 79)
Westbury United 4 (Mortimer Taylor 37, Thorpe OG 45+2, Wakefield 68, Cross 84
By Avril Lancaster
Brandon Mundy leads the ‘Rockies ‘ as captain in the absence of Charlie Rayfield.
Photo – Simon Eckley
Shaftesbury’s hundred per cent record against the Wiltshire side disappeared as Westbury United put in a convincing performance to take all three points.
In horrendous conditions at Cockrams it was fairly even until the 37th minute when Cole Fleming was able to work his way across our box and found Eben Mortimer-Taylor at the back post to score.
A slice of fortune came the ‘Whitehorsemen’s’ way after they’ had very nearly doubled their lead when Leighton Thomas rattled the post. A first half injury time free kick was headed past Oscar Glover by debutant Saul Thorpe into his own net which left Shaftesbury with a lot to do.
Jensen Wakefield was on hand to finish a move to put Westbury 3-0 ahead with 68 minutes played even though Brett Pitman rasped in a Harry Morgan assist to reduce arrears for his 6th goal of the season past Joel Manning, it was Bevan Cross who found room wide slot in the fourth one miserable day for the “Rockies ‘
Shaftesbury – Glover, Ward (Whitfield 61), Wakeford, Pike (Redknapp 83), Thorpe, Mundy (Hughes 61), Hoey, Murray, Hewlett (Santos DAbadia 80), Pitman, Morgan
Westbury United – Manning, Restorick, Witcombe, A.Witchell, Thomas (Andrews 88), Wakefield (Jenkins 77), Fleming (E.Witchell 76), Graham, Mortimer- Taylor (Jordan 89), Cross, Bole
Match Officials – L.Kettlety, S.Harford, G.Dunn
Attendance – 220
The house that Jim built. Milligan pensive before the big game vs Frome Town.
Photo – BTR Media.
It was as you were in both camps as the second half began. It would be Greaves side that grasped the nettle first when Albie Hopkins got past our defence and did well to stay on his feet to shot fire past Taylor to put Frome Town into the lead after 51 minutes. George Dowling planted in the third going into the final quarter of the game and it looked like goodnight Vienna for us.
With Tom Hewlett and George Higgins on as substitutes we went at it.Milligan knew it was stick or twist time. We gambled to go at it and it paid off.
Holmes got inside the Frome defence to turn in his first getting past the Frome Town defence and clip the ball past Philips into the corner with ten minutes left. Game on and the Cockrams ground lit up.
Then in the 83rd minute Sonny Pike delivered a peach of a ball as two ‘Robins ‘ collided with each other and found Brown who put it on a plate for Holmes who put the chance away. 3-3! Could we win it?
Holmes is top of our scoring charts now with 18 goals and has really been on fire. With six minutes added on a downward header from Harvey Bradbury missed by inches which really would have been something. Still a point with ten men against quality opposition shows how far our club has travelled in recent years.
Shaftesbury- Taylor, Rayfield, Whisken, Pike, Burden (C), Brown, Ward (Hewlett 66), Mundy (Higgins 70), Holmes, Bradbury, Morgan
Frome Town- Philips, Lucas, Heal (Bullock 77), Teale, Dowling, Ferris, Drew (Holmes 55), Hopkins, Maidment, Feltham (Brabham 86), Dodimead (Duru 76)
Sent off – Rayfield (26),Booked – Bradbury (88), Pike (50), Hopkins (87)
Officials – A.Dunn, S.Wright, D.Bachelor
Attendance- 523
🌟 Star Man- Toby Holmes
🌟 Frome Town- George Dowling
Crediting Ben Chandler Photography 📸
Trungle Park- Mousehole AFC have risen from the Cornwall Combination League to pushing for a place in the Pitching In Southern League Premier Division South.
Mousehole AFC- Chenowith, Lewis (Konte 9), Barratt (Keverne 89), Ward, Turner, Calver, Nixon (Derham 78), Symons, Bernard (Ranalli Sousa 86), Fresenda, Massey (Sullivan 78)
Shaftesbury- Murphy, McKeown, Beard, Cocklin (McCann 68), Nixon (Wright 19), Davidson, Rogers (Thomas Young 72), Santos DAbadia (Satterley 64), Burbidge, Hoey (Almedia 86), Holmes
Officials – N.D’Arcy, D.England, C.Hancock
Booked – Beard 31, Satterley 79, Milligan (Technical Area) 45+3. Sullivan 90+4
Attendance- 199
🌟 Star Man – Toby Holmes. Worked hard all game and even though this was a game against a good side that finished well and are very good team you could see Holmes Southern League experience will help the team in the up coming games.
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Pitching In Southern League South results-Bemerton Heath Harlequins 1 Exmouth Town 0, Bideford AFC 1 Yate Town 1, Bishops Cleeve 3 Didcot Town 0, Bristol Manor Farm 0 Tavistock AFC 3, Cinderford Town 2 Thatcham Town 2, Evesham United 2 Cribbs 0, Helston Athletic 1 Larkhall Athletic 1, Malvern Town 5 Bashley 2, Melksham Town 3 Willand Rovers 0, Mousehole AFC 5 Shaftesbury ,Westbury United 2 Falmouth Town 1
Photos- Avril Lancaster, Tim Lancaster (Tim’s Ground Travels)
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