Reports from 9th March

9^th  March 2013

Wigginton Grasshoppers hopes of lifting the York Minster Engineering Premier League title took yet another knock as they failed to score for the third successive home game as they lost 3-0 at home to Dringhouses. Craig McShane headed Dringhouses in front and before the break Dave Watson had doubled their lead.  A Javier Shepherd header confirmed a third consecutive home defeat for the Grasshoppers.

Old Malton chalked up a fifth straight win in style as they hammered Easingwold 11-0 which include five goals from Dean Nuttall. The Ryedale tally was completed with a hat-trick from Jon Newton, a Darren Dunning brace and Dave Wilson who started the rout with the opening goal.   

The Poppleton revival continues as they recorded back-to-back away wins for the first time since September 2011 following their comfortable 5-0 win at Rowntrees. Nick Moss set them on their way with their opener after 18 minutes before Joe Dale,  scoring for the sixth game on the trot, scored twice in each half.

 

Two goals from Dave Heron helped Riccall to defeat Huntington Rovers for the first time in five attempts, Gary Collier and Danny Rodwell completed the Riccall scoring as they won 4-0.

 

Since Terrington Glory’s 15 match unbeaten away run finished they have failed to collect a point from their last three trips, the latest defeat was at the hands of hosts York RI who won 6-4. Lee Powell’s opener for RI was cancelled out by Ben Richardson before Carl Shepherd restored the home sides lead before the break.  In the second period Nick Hartley and a Craig Atkinson penalty extended RI’s lead and though the visitors responded through Andrew Park, Powell completed his hat-trick with Dave Bradshaw and Chris Leadham getting late goals for  Terrington. Selby RSSC achieved their first home win of the season as they thumped Hamilton Panthers 5-2. The Selby side raced into a five goal lead through Louis Blackwell (3),  Matty Muscroft and Dave Hullah before Panthers replied through Jonathon Ellis and Danny Farthing.

 

 

 

Amotherby & Swinton’s George Moore scored for the fourth game on the bounce when he put his side in front at home to Division One leaders Aviva but on the stroke of half-time Carl Barbero levelled for Aviva and after the restart Warren Lowe headed the visitors in front and Mark Benton  wrapped up the scoring as Aviva won 3-1. White Horse suffered their second successive defeat as they went down 1-0 at St Clements, Scott Nicholas scoring the only goal of the game. The defeat leaves the Church Fenton side needing maximum points from all their games in hand to mount a serious challenge for Promotion.

 

Sporting Knavesmire pushed their unbeaten home run to 5 games in Division Three as they beat Civil Service 4-2. Andrew Simpson with his fifth goal in as many games put Sporting in front with George Wilson doubling their lead, the visitors responded with goals from Chris Smith and Glen Thompson but late goals from Ali Brown and Tom Wilson confirmed the win for the hosts.  Two weeks ago Crayke celebrated their first away win in 14 games and they have followed that with their first home victory in 12 as they came from a goal down to beat Ouseburn 2-1. Mark Aconley turned the ball into his own net to put the visitors in front but Matty Dixon came off the bench to equalise and their first home win since December 2011 was confirmed five minutes from time by James Robinson.   Despite a Steve Gagen hat-trick Rufforth suffered their first home defeat in four games as they conceded three late goals to lose 5-4 to Selby Olympia. James Everhard hit Rufforth’s other goal. 

 

In the only Division Four fixture to go ahead League leaders York Acorn confirmed their promotion to Division Three with a hard earned 3-1 win over Selby Town Res. Lee Jacobs hit their opener with an excellent volley into the top corner with Leigh Dutton adding a goal either side of the break for the Acorns, Kyle Wilks replied for Selby. 

Defending Reserve A Champions Dunnington edged a step closer to retaining their title as they hit five past York RI for the second time this season.  Andy Rose,  who hit a hat-trick in the 5-1 win in September hit yet another to add to goals from Matty Phail and Dan Hall

The top-of-the-table clash in Reserve B went in favour of the League leaders and hosts White Horse who defeated Easingwold Town 4-3. The visitors goals were shared between Jordan Green, Andrew Metcalfe (Snr) and John Dey. Pocklington salvaged a point from their trip to Bishopthorpe as they snatched an equaliser two minutes from time as they drew 3-3, Andy Segas, James Mackie and Graham Vickers were all on target for Bish, it was Pocklington’s first away draw in 16 games, their last away draw was October 2011, at Bishopthorpe. Heslington eased their relegation worries as they ended an eight match winless run with a victory over York St Johns. The students led with goals from James Long and Daniel Tingay but a first home win of the season was secured for Heslington as they hit back to win 5-2 with a brace each for Shaun Allen and Alex Sutherland and one from Danny Topping. Amotherby are still looking for their first away win of the season after they recorded their fourth away draw of the campaign as they shared the points with Aviva in a 2-2 draw. Ross Turnbulls’ opening goal for the home side was cancelled out by Tom Everett and though Geoff Pinkney restored the lead for Aviva,  Adam Gray levelled for Amotherby ten minutes from time.

Jim Darlison hit a hat-trick for Selby RSSC as they remain on track for promotion from Reserve C at the first time of asking following their 4-1 win at Stamford Bridge. Kyle Pool added their fourth with Jamie Rank replying for Stamford. The Selby side were helped by the other results in the Division as two of their promotion challengers both suffered defeats, Poppleton held Champions-elect Malton & Norton to a goal-less opening half but succumbed in the second period as Branden Read hit a hat-trick to add to goals from Adam Cooke, Ed Marwood and Curtis Pickering as Poppleton lost 6-0. Third in the table Rowntrees led at Thorpe by a single Sean Stewart goal with 20 minutes remaining, but managed to lose 6-2. Byrom Summers led the turnaround has he netted three times in the final period to add to strikes from Dave Hawe, Adam Parnell and Greg Anderson and Stewart still had time to bag his second of the afternoon.

Reserve D leaders Civil Service extended their unbeaten home run to 9 games but they did it the hard way. Visitors Tadcaster Town led 2-0 and 3-1 before the break but eventually Civil Service took control to win 7-3 and need just one more win from their three remaining fixtures to secure at least promotion. Their goals were shared between Gareth Srain who took his tally for the season to 21 with his fourth hat-trick of the campiagn to add to goals from Ross Dixon, Mark Lund, Declan Parks and Ben Holding.  Ricky Mizzi helped to keep St Clements in the promotion race as he hit all his sides goals in their 3-1 win at Huby, Tom Horner replied for the hosts and Tom Dunning and Toby Bodycombe netted for Cliffe in their 2-1 home win over Rufforth.   

In the Junior Cup the clash between two of the promotion chasing sides in Division Three needed penalties to decide the outcome after Barmby Moor scraped a 2-2 at F1 Racing with a last minute goal. Earlier George Trifan gave F1 an early lead with a penalty which was cancelled out a minute into the second period by the visitors, Neil Yeowart restored F1’s lead but only until the final minute as Barmby levelled again, however F1 Racing won the penalty shoot out 4-3. Cliffe,  fielding a side with four 16 years olds,  earned a Second Round tie with Crayke as a goal in each half, the first from Kev Taylor, the second from with a Chris Jackson penalty, accounted for Elvington Harriers 2-0 and Fulford FC Utd defeated Melbourne by the same 2-0 score line with their goals from Jordan Siswick and Sam Harrison.

Tadcaster Magnets met Thorpe Utd for the third week running and the result, just like the two previous league encounters went in Tadcaster ‘s favour, John Crawley, Andy Kitchen, Phil Smith and Ben Wilson were all on target as Taddy won 4-0.