LILYWHITES INSPIRED BY DWYER
AARON Dwyer produced a dazzling display as
Mossley downed Colwyn Bay 3-2 in an enthralling encounter at Seel Park to move into second place.
Dwyer was the star of the show for Mossley, having a hand in each of his side’s goals, assisting two and scoring one.
Mossley raced into a two-goal lead inside just 15 minutes. Keenan Quansah fired in from 20 yard, before Mason Duffy had a simple tap-in following a superb cross from Dwyer to double Mossley’s advantage.
Moments later, Will Bell grabbed one back for Colwyn Bay in a frantic opening 20 minutes which saw three goals.
On the stroke of halftime, Dwyer got the goal his performance deserved and rose high to head home Mish Fish’s corner and marked his first goal for the club.
Colwyn Bay dominated the second-half and applied plenty of pressure on the Mossley defence. They were awarded a penalty which was scored by Josh Brizell, but it would be to no avail and Mossley would hold out for all three points.
Mossley now sit just three points of the top of the table and have a game in hand on Runcorn Linnets. Skelmersdale United remain bottom of the division following their seventh defeat of the season as local rivals
Widnes triumphed 1-0. The defeat marks a torrid start to the season for Skelmerdale, who have only managed to pick up six points from their opening 11 games, winning just one of those.
The game was closely fought at Volair Park but a goal for Widnes debutant Jack Dunn would be enough to secure the points for Widnes.
The number 10 charged down a clearance from the Skelmersdale defence and rounded keeper Terry Smith to roll into an empty net after 33 minutes.
Davie Moore went closest for Skelmersdale in the first half, but his shot was well saved by Widnes goalkeeper Ryan Nelid.
Skelmersdale came agonisingly close to an
equaliser on 54 minutes but his side-footed attempt from 35 yards went just fractions wide of an empty Widnes net as Nelid was caught way out of position in the Widnes goal.
Phil Mooney then saved Skelmersdale from going 2-0 down after he was onhand to clear an effort off the line after Smith was chipped from outside his penalty area.
Skelmersdale finished the game strongly however they could nofind their elusive equaliser with the Widnes defence holding strong to ensure a clean sheet and the three points.
Trafford now sit fifth in the table after they beat 15th place Clitheroe 2-1 at Shawbridge thanks to goals from Aaron Burns and Ross Davidson.
Clitheroe’s new signing James Boyd started and scored in first-half added time to give his side the lead.
The forward did well to read Jamie Rainford’s disguised dummy and fire Clitheroe ahead.
Within seven minutes of the restart, Trafford drew themselves level. A brilliant diving header from Aaron Burns levelled the game to undo all of Clitheroe’s first-half work.
With the game in the balance, both teams went in search of a winner.
With five minutes left to play, a fantastic strike from Ross Davidson beat Clitheroe keeper Cameron Terry to make it 2-1 to Trafford.
The strike fired past Terry from around 25 yards and earned the points for Trafford in what was a tightly-fought contest.
That last-gasp goal condemned Clitheroe to their sixth defeat of the season.
That leaves the side only two points adrift of the teams at the bottom of the table.
On the other hand, that fine result for Trafford leaves them four points off top of the table outfit Runcorn Linnets but they do have a game in-hand over their early-season title-rivals.