Saturday 1^st September 2012

Wigginton Grasshoppers have established themselves as the early leaders in the York Minster Engineering Premier League having collected maximum points from their opening 5 games. Their latest success was a 4-1 win at newly promoted Selby RSSC Lee McQuade’s opening goal for Wigginton was cancelled out by Shane Caukill but the visitors were back in front within four minutes through Tom Coates and extended their lead further on the stroke of half-time as McQuade took his personally tally for the campaign to 8. In the second period Eddie Clapham completed the scoring with a penalty after Tom Coates had been brought down. Dunnington maintained their unbeaten start to the season with a 3-1 win at Riccall and in doing so inflicted a first defeat of the season on their hosts. Alex Lowe gave Dunnington an early lead and though Riccall must have thought that they were going into the interval on level terms when Darren Davis equalised on 43 minutes only for Scott Sullivan to restore the visitors lead within a minute.  Dunnington’s tenth game without defeat was confirmed by Tom Mathews in the final quarter-of-an hour. Old Malton bounced back from their surprise mid-week defeat with a 4-0 win at Hamilton Panthers. The game should have been over as a contest before the interval but the visitors missed a hatful of chances, the main culprit been Jon Newton,  so the match was almost an hour old before the deadlock was eventually broken and then Malton hit three goals in the space of five minutes.  The home keeper spilled a Richard Dunning cross into his own net to put the visitors in front and within a minute Newton finally found the back of the net from a Cooke cross with Scott Preston converting a penalty three minutes later. Newton atoned for his early misses when he latched onto a Cooke through ball to bag his second of the afternoon. Since winning Promotion to the Premier League Easingwold have never really got close to beating Huntington, they lost both fixtures 7-0 last season. so when Chris Dempsey met a Mitchinson cross after two minutes to put Huntington ahead and Gary Newton headed in their second after quarter-of-an hour,  another mauling looked on the cards but the hosts dug deep and before the break had reduced the arrears through Steve Aconley.  An Easingwold comeback was however denied in the second half as Newton converted a penalty with his usual aplomb before Dyson and Edmund both came off the bench to combine as the latter made it 4-1. Terrington Glory notched up their first home win in the Premier League as they defeated Rowntrees 3-1, Ben Richardson hit their opener with Mikey Brown adding a goal in each half. Poppleton picked up their first point of the season as they recorded their first draw in 15 matches as they shared 6 goals with Dringhouses. Two Danny Temple goals saw Pop deservedly lead at the break before ‘Houses drew level courtesy of an own goal and a Mike McKenzie effort. Luke Berridge restored Pop’s advantage before Craig McShane equalised ten minutes from time. After three successive defeats York RI were determined not to start the new campaign with what would have been their worst losing sequence since promotion to the Premier League but  a brace each for Mark Wood and Lee Powell,  both in the first half,  set RI on their way to a comfortable 5-1 win at York St Johns. Dave McNicol completed the nap hand for RI with Angus Jones replying for St Johns.