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Tuesday 10th November 2026
Shaftesbury 0
Tim Sills young charges produced some scintillating football to progress to the 2nd Round of the Dorset Senior Cup with emphatic win against our side that saw a number of our Dorset Senior League side make their first team debuts.
Dorset Senior Cup 1st Round
Shaftesbury 0
Wimborne Town 6
(Graham 16, Bethell OG 39, Khallouqi 45, 69, Lencina 75, Collett- Carr 90+3)
By Avril Lancaster
Tim Sills young charges produced some scintillating football to progress to the 2nd Round of the Dorset Senior Cup with emphatic win against our side that saw a number of our Dorset Senior League side make their first team debuts.
Shaftesbury manager Jim Milligan gave Miles Fielding, Tom Oliver, Finley Moncrief, Harry Jordan first team gametime against the ‘Magpies ‘ on a night where the weather really set in the two sides delivered a decent game as the visitors as a club had celebrated in drawing former Premier League Bradford City in the Emirates FA Cup 2nd Round.
Fielding made two outstanding saves in succession on his first team debuts and really couldn’t be faulted with for any that did pass him. Tom Oliver was on as a substitute early on for Saul Thorpe and it must be noted that we had players in the side that played at Step 8 of the pyramid.
No one was expecting to see any of the Wimborne Town team that defeated Crawley Town on Sunday. They really deserved the night off after their FA Cup heroics and Sills had a good look at the younger players in his overall squad that I certainly wouldn’t think would look out of place at a higher level.
This was a game for both managers to get the minutes in and it was a simple header by Jasper Graham following a corner and an unfortunate own goal by James Bethell that ran up a two goal lead for the visitors who all but secured their passage into the next round.
Faras Khallouqi added a brace with Tomas Lencina on target for the fifth and Jake Collett-Carr scoring on full time to complete an emphatic victory for the ‘Magpies’. For us Harry Jordan and Finley Moncrief got a full games and could well find themselves in the first team squad again.
Shaftesbury- Fielding, Murray, Bethell, Moncrief, Thorpe, Santos DAbadia (Capt), Whitfield, Hoey, Burbidge, Hughes, Jordan
Subs Used – Pitman, Oliver, Hewlett, Mitchell.
Wimborne Town Squad – Rodwell, Barbosa, Graham, Edmonson, Wilson, Jenkins, Toghill, Lencina, Khallouqi, Carmicheal, Collett-Carr, John, Wilson, Loader, Igenski
Officials – C.Benin, P.Moore, M.Chinnock
Attendance- 162
Ollie Hughes, Jack Hoey and Luke Burbidge prepare for a night in Senior Cup action.
📸 Photo – Simon Eckley
Shaftesbury ended a three match losing run with a Brett Pitman goal in the 67th minute ending the ‘Rockies ‘ recent bad luck in the Pitching In Southern League Division 1 (South). It was however the visitors who took the lead when Joshua Parry got clear of Sonny Pike to fire past Alex Rutter to give ‘Barum’ the lead with a well hit strike into the far corner of the net.
Shaftesbury had an early Brandon Mundy strike and later one from Luke Burbidge ruled out for offside. The visitors were denied a second as Rutter made an outstanding double save from Parry in the first half.
It was however Tom Hewlett who dug the ball out into to Pitman’s path for the striker to turn the defence and slot in his seventh goal of the season. Both sides had chances to win the game with Jack Hoey incredibly managing to hit both posts and the ball agonisingly was cleared away from danger by the Devon side and the points were shared.
Shaftesbury- Rutter, Hewlett, Pike, Smith (Thorpe 74) Wakeford (Hoey 46), Mundy (Capt) Santos DAbadia, Burbidge, Whitfield (Hughes 67), Pitman, Morgan
Barnstaple Town- Hamon, Grigg, Rogers (G.Rogers 58), Moyse, Hill, Gardener (Capt), Mortimore (Knight 87), Watson, Elliott, Parry (Bowker 50), Montague
Match Officials- A.Vacher, J.Biddlecombe, W.Wright
🟨 – Thorpe (82)
Attendance- 241
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.
See highlights of this game – Way Out West (YouTube) and also featured on https://youtube.com/@footballtravel-k4s?si=6_-wa1sUQKlNR4l9
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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