Double six gets Saints surging
WEST LANCS LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION HAS ST MARY’S .............. 6 BURSCOUGH RICH ......... 0 STEVE BAYES
PLAYING their seventh game in 14 days, Haslingden St Mary’s continued their surge up the table with their second 6-0 drubbing of Burscough Richmond in the space of a week.
The match started scrappily with both teams struggling with the hard bumpy pitch, but on eight minutes the opening goal when a great ball found Jamie Hart out on the right side and as two defenders and the keeper came rushing out to him he fired the ball past them all into the unguarded net from a narrow angle.
Burscough moved the ball forward well but were met by a well organised St Mary’s defence, and right on half time a bad back pass by Burscough was seized upon by Lewis Hanley, he was forced wide by the keeper but he fired home from a narrow angle to double St Mary’s lead.
St Mary’s controlled the second half and on 52 minutes they scored a third goal when a fierce Hart shot was blocked but Hanley picked up the rebound and swept the ball under the keeper.
On 63 minutes a good ●● Scott Wylie football goal when the ball was played forward to Hanley who played it inside to Scott Wylie, he held it up then played in Tom Hulme who side stepped a challenge and fired home into the corner.
As the match entered the final 10 minutes the ball ended up at Hulme’s feet 40 yards out, he looked up and saw the keeper off his line and launched a spectacular shot over the Burscough defence and the keeper into the net for a great finish. Two minutes from time Wylie controlled a long ball forward evaded two strong challenges and fired home to complete the scoring.
A great team perfor- ●● Tom Hulme mance brought another well deserved three points that sees St Mary’s move up to tenth place in the table, and with their current form and still four games to play their expectations for a higher finish are well founded.
St Mary’s are at home on Saturday to Vickerstown with a 3pm kick off, followed by a home game on Tuesday against Southport Hesketh with a 7pm start.
St Mary’s reserves’ late charge up the table continued as they moved up to fifth in division three after a 4-3 home win over Milnthorpe Corinthians Reserves with goals from Henry Hindle, a couple from Matt Read and one from Callum Hector.