PONTEFRACT KEEP LEADERS IN SIGHT
Collieries stay in Morpeth’s rear-view mirror
PONTEFRACT Collieries made the most of Morpeth Town’s lack of action as a 6-2 hammering of Carlton Town helped them keep pressure on the East Division leaders. Morpeth’s clash with Pickering Town fell victim to the weather and the onus was on Collieries to close the gap at the top to eight points.
They did so sumptuously, scoring four before the break, despite going behind early on.
Long throws caused early danger for them and Carlton made them pay just two minutes in, Tyler Blake opening the scoring with a header.
That was emphatically eclipsed before the break, Jack Greenhough’s cross floating all the way in before the same man turned provider for Gavin Rothery two minutes later.
Greenhough scored yet another effort from out wide, before Chris Jackson’s double and Nick Guest’s goal wrapped up proceedings.
Pontefract weren’t the only high-fliers to prevail, with all the play-off contenders victorious by the end of the day.
Among them were thirdplaced Brighouse Town, who put mid-table Lincoln United to the sword with a 4-0 win.
Zeph Thomas’ 20-yard thunderbolt made it 1-0 before the break, with the game put to bed 12 minutes from time when Aaron Martin rolled the ball home.
Late goals from Iwan Heeley and Tom Robinson added gloss to proceedings for Brig’s 17th win this campaign.
Joining them on 17 victories were Tadcaster Albion, 3-0 victors at home to Spalding
United – despite being held 0-0 at the break. The deadlock was broken on the hour, Aiden Savory curling in from 12 yards, before the same man swept home soon after.
They weren’t done as Joe Lumsden had the simple task of tapping home his 22nd goal of the season from a perfectlyexecuted short corner.
Ossett United are back in the play-offs after making the most of Sheffield dropping points, leapfrogging them into sixth with a 3-1 win over Frickley . Adam Priestley, an own goal from Adam Liversidge and Aiden Chippendale were on the mark for Ossett, with Ousman Cham replying for Frickley on his debut.
Goals from Karl Demidh, on the stroke of half-time, and Ryan Robbins with 17 minutes to go gave Loughborough
Dynamo a 2-0 victory over visiting Belper Town at the ADT Stadium.
Belper’s best moments came in the opening half and they retained hopes of a point until Robbins sealed matters.
Dynamo are now just four points behind their rivals in mid-table.
Bottom-side Gresley have had little to cheer this season, but they were certainly celebrating on Saturday, picking up just a seventh win of the season
with a 2-1 success over Wisbech.
All three goals came in the first half, Matt Smith and Devante Reittie grabbing the vital scores to narrow the gap to Stocksbridge Park Steels to just one point.
With just two games possible in the West division, Atherton
Collieries’ lead at the top remains at four points, with each of the top four teams having played 30 games.