No cup shock for Berks County

BERKS COUNTY were unable to pull off a shock as they were dumped out of the Reading Senior Cup by Reading City.

There are two divisions between the sides and the gulf in class showed at the Rivermoor with Hellenic Premier City running out 4-0 winners with all the goals coming in the first half.

Also in cup action were WOODLEY UNITED ROYALS, who were beaten 4-0 at Slough Heating Laurencians in the Berks and Bucks Intermediate Cup.

In the same competition HURST lost 5-2 to Wallingford Town Reserves, despite goals from Benjamin

Anderson and Marc Jones, while AFC CORINTHIANS were thrashed 5-1 by Lambourne Sports at Cantley Park.

HARCHESTER HAWKS DEVELOPMENT were knocked out of the Reading Diamond Cup with a 5-2 defeat at Henley Town Development with Thomas Rowing scoring twice for the visitors.

There were also some Thames

Valley League games with struggling WOKINGHAM AND EMMBROOK RESERVES losing 2-0 to Burghfield in the Premier Division.

HURST RESERVES are up to fifth in Division Two after beating Phoenix Old Boys with goals from Andrew Herbert and Matthew Lambert (2).

Meanwhile WOODLEY UNITED A also won 3-2, away at Goring United Reserves in Division Three thanks to Timothy Green’s brace and a Conor Clarke strike.

BERKS COUNTY ROVERS were thrashed 8-2 at Datchet Village in Division Four to be knocked off top spot.

Bracknell Town and District Sunday League -

Premier Division: Athletico Forest 0-1 Golden Farmer Rangers, Crowthorne Inn 2-1 Raglan, Wokingham and Bracknell 1-1 Panthers

Division One: Finchampstead Athletic Reserves 3-2 Crowthorne Old Boys, Wokingham and Emmbrook TMW 2-0 Woodley United

Division Two: Golden Farmer Rangers Reserves 1-0 3M, Ashridge Park v Sandhurst FFC (away walkover), Woodley Saints 8-0 Silver Birch Dynamos Division Three: Winnersh Town 1-1 Bracknell Saint-Germain

Division Four: AFC Crowthorne Old Boys 2-8 Crownwood Dukes

Reading and District Sunday League

Division One: Woodley United 4-7 Aydin Division Two: Park Villa 2-3 Wokingham and Emmbrook Division Three: Theale 1-3 Shinfield Park United

Division Four: Calcot 0-6 Borussia Teeth, Shinfield Rangers 0-2 Sanctuary Strikers