Swaffer hits milestone goal
Maidstone
Nigel Swaffer hit his 750th goal for the club in Maidstone 5ths’ 5-2 win over Anchorians 4ths in Kent Open Division 3 on Saturday.
And just to highlight the age spectrum in the side it was made by 13-year-old Cameron Brown, one of his three assists.
Mark Gibbons and Dylan Collie, also 13, made it 3- 0 at half-time before Anchorians got two back in the second half.
Collie and Gibbons then added one each to complete the win.
The men’s 1sts top Kent/ Sussex Regional 1 going into the mid-season break but finished the first half of the season beaten 4- 0 at Eastbourne.
They trailed inside the opening five minutes and conceded two more before half-time.
The Sussex hosts added a fourth early in the second half but the score reflects a poor display and lessons need to be learned.
Goalkeeper Mark Burrows was named man-of-the-match.
The ladies’ 1sts went down 4-1 at home to St Albans in East Women’s League, Division 2 South East. They conceded two before half-time and while concentration and communication improved in the second half, St Albans added two more goals after the break.
Jess Cremin pulled one back with a neat finish inside the far post as the curtain came down on a frustrating first half of the season.
They will hope to improve on seventh place when the season resumes in mid-January.
The 4ths lost 6-1 at Cliftonville in Kent Division 5 after being forced to play one short due to travel problems. They were 3- 0 down before player-of-the match Wendy Carter scored just before half-time.
A battling second-half display failed to earn any reward, as Maidstone conceded three more goals, with the scorenot reflecting how many chances they created.