ST IVES TOWN 1 TIVERTON TOWN 2

THE GALLANT ten men of St Ives put in arguably one of their best performances of the season and were hugely unlucky to take nothing.

The game hinged on a 12th-minute clash between the hosts’ keeper James Goff and Tivvy centreforward Jordan Rogers. Rogers just won the race to a ball over the top and Goff, who had come to try to head the ball clear just outside the box, found his momentum taking him into the striker.

The ball rolled past the post, but the two players collided with a sickening clash of heads which left both in a heap. Goff recovered sufficiently to be brandished a red card, but Rogers was carried off with serious facial injuries.

Ives continued to look the better side and they took a deserved lead in the 26th minute as Ben Seymour-Shove got above his marker to head home.

The visitors went three at the back a few minutes later, but still struggled to find a way through. They grabbed an unlikely equaliser in 45th minute as Owen Howe held off Brett Longden to prod home.

Tivvy continued to look bereft of ideas in the second period and Ives broke dangerously at every opportunity. But the game was decided in the 81st minute when Howe grabbed his second running onto a through ball by Levi Landricombe and finishing low past stand-in keeper Lewis Hilliard.

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