Match Reports - Week 15

By Ant Barlow

Saturday 10th December 2011

Fred Ford Cup
Witney Royals hosted Charlbury Town in the Fred Ford Cup. The result reflected their league positions with the hosts winning 6-3. Matt Thompson scored a hat trick with Ryan Colleton, Jack Kennedy and Nathan Chadwick getting the others. Matt Smith, Mat Holloway and Sean Gilbert scored the goals for Charlbury.

Hailey are through to the next round after seeing off Spartan Rangers 5-1. Goals from Joel King (2), Dean Mays (2) and Sean King gave the visitors an unassailable lead as Andrew Shaw’s consolations strike was the visitors only response.

Jack Busby Cup Quarter Finals
High Flying FC Chequers Reserves were brought down to earth with a bang by Hanborough Reserves after a 6-2 thrashing. Two quick goals in each half undid the hosts as Joe Burgess, Rob Keylock and Scott Akers each bagged a brace for Boro. Doug Mulvihill and Tom Gonzalez replied in vain for Chequers.

North Leigh B moved into the semi-finals after seeing off Freeland B 2-0 courtesy of two goals from Pawel Bronk.

Ford Davies and Stuart Morrison put Hailey reserves in the next round as their strikes earned the hosts a 2-0 win over West Witney.

Premier Division
Kingham AB picked up their first win of the season and in doing so, moved off the bottom of the table. They beat FC Chequers 2-1 with goals from Dan Davies and Sam Philpott. Mo Semlali got the goal for the visitors.

Hanborough picked up another 3 points after a 4-1 win over neighbours Combe. The goals were shared amongst Craig Johnson, Paul Rose, Aston Leach and Lewis White. Jamie Fisher replied for Combe.

North Leigh A moved into third courtesy of a 4-2 win over Ducklington. Will Smalden helped himself to a hat trick with Jason Lonsdale getting the other. Ian Peedle and a Paul lewis own goal were all Duck had to show for their efforts.

Division One
AC Finstock had 3 players sent off as they went down 6-1 to Minster Lovell. The hosts took advantage of their numerical advantage as Nathan Harris bagged a hat trick. Scott Thompson scored two with Ian Wright getting the other. Darren Tasker’s goal was the highlight for Finstock prior to the dismissal of Jordan Beck, Matt Eaton and Jason Blackman on his debut.

Aston picked up all three points in a comfortable 6-1 win over Ducklington Reserves. Ryan John scored for the visitors, but a hat trick from Matt Brown and further goals from Darryl Kew, Phil Caswell and Pete Saunders in a second half rout secured the win for the home side.

Tony McLemen scored twice in West Witneys 4-2 win over Brize Norton. Carl Dodds and David Hamill netted the others as Mark Sollis and Pay Crowley scored for Brize.

FC Mills picked up 3 well-earned points in their 3-2 win over FC nomads. Rob DeBanks, Steve Lyon and Alex Dyakowski scored the goals in the first half for Mills. Nicky Bowles and Mark Thomas scored for Nomads in the second half but it was not quite enough for a point.

Andy Jackson and George Woodcock scored for Stanton Harcourt as they went down 3-2 to Chipping Norton. Mark Corbett bagged a brace with Warwick Thompkins getting the other.

Division Two
David Jeynes (2) and Rob James scored the goals in Milton’s 3-1 win over Bampton. The hosts scored through Jack Goodchild in the match that saw Milton move into second.

Ducklington A moved into third after a closely fought, 4-3 win over Middle Barton. Harvey Butler and Tom Madden each scored twice to earn the points with Nick Pickup (2) and Ashley Scearce netting for Middle Barton.

Witney Wanderers picked up all three points after a narrow 3-2 win over Wootton. Martin Jones (2) and Charlie King scored for the hosts. Not even a Jason Ludlow strike and a Dave Pratley thunderbolt could bring parity to the score line.

Brize Norton Reserves finally got their first win of the season courtesy of a 6-2 thrashing of Charlbury Town Reserves. Steve Morgan (2), Shaun Rawlings, Craig Brce, Ollie Puddle and Chris King all got in on the act before Mark Good and Garry Jones hit back for Charlbury.

Division Three
Carterton Pumas beat bottom-placed Kingham AB Reserves 7-0 with Kai Merritt and Darren Davenport each bagging a brace. Kyle Drummond, Ryan Maddison and Dean Matthews scored the goals.

AFC Marlborough and Minster Lovell Reserves took a point each from their epic 4-4 draw. The hosts scored through Steve Gorman (2), Nathan Kelly and Sam Bodingham with Cody Davies (2) and John Forteath (2) replying for Minster.

A single second half goal from Matt Britt was enough for all three points in Aston reserves 1-0 win over Tackley.

Witney Royals A slipped a place nearer to the dreaded relegation zone after going down 2-0 to FC Hollybush. Dan Tasker and Neil Haines scored the winning goals.

Division Four
Corinthians good form continued as they beat Spartan Rangers A 4-0. Darren Mobey, Richard Meredith, Gary Forest and Richard Harries scored the goals for the hosts.

Brad Snell and Ben Jackson each bagged a brace in Ducklington B’s 7-0 thrashing of Wychwood Foresters. Steve Townsend, Gary Forest and Richard Harries got the others.

Combe Reserves went down 6-0 to Greystones with Rocky Burton (2), Peter Lee, Keyth Bonner, Gary Calladine and Pete Guy getting the goals.

Where next?

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