Snainton battle back for shoot-out victory
Division One side Snainton battled back for a 5-3 penalty shoot-out win at home to second division outfit
in an all-Newitts.com Beckett League tie in the
Duncombe Park Reserves Scarborough & District FA Junior Cup.
Park bagged a 2-0 lead just 15 minutes in as David Wallinger scored a fine brace. After some nice work down the right wing, Snainton were awarded a free-kick, Aidan McCallion’ssecondgoalintwo weeks halving the deficit.
Park added a third through Tom Davis just before halftime to give the visitors a 3-1 interval lead.
Afterthebreak,SamCooperpoppeduptoscoreaheader as the home side now started dominating.
Joe Milner was brought down and then stepped up to convert the penalty to level matters.
A penalty shoot-out followed, with Regan Hewitt fresh off his last penalty miss in the previous cup game, he stood up to take the first and slotted it home.
James King scored for Park, then Rob Holt made it 2-1 before Snainton keeper Tom Poor saved down low to hislefttopreventGeorgeBond scoring.
Then Dan Simpson stepped up and smashed his home with confidence, Davis scoredforPark,Milnerreplied for Snainton as did Josh LawsonforParkforthehometeam to lead 4-3, finally up stepped Fletcher-Varey who slid the ball into the goal to win the shoot-out.
Goal Sports toppled second division rivals Heslerton 2-1.
Heslerton were quickest out of the blocks with strikers Morgan Kendrew and Jack Pinder both testing the hosts’ keeper Max Creed.
The visitors went ahead on the half-hour mark. Rob Ruston was upended and a spot-kick was converted by stalwart Gareth Driver.
In the second half Goal Sports upped their game and the hosts drew level through Shaun Dolan.
The hosts would then grab the advantage with a spot
kick fired in by Josh Welburn with what turned out to be the match winning goal.
Both Kendrew and Pinder had fine efforts that were both saved or off target with Ben Flinton shooting straight at the keeper from four yards.
Man of the Match winners were Creed (Goal Sports) and Rob Ruston (Heslerton).
Second division Wombleton Wanderers hammered depleted Division One side Thornton le Dale 9-0.
David Thompson scored fourforWanderers,RyanRivis only got one goal but provided four assists, centre-back Curt Dickinson got a brace, winger Luke Quantock scored one and Josh Tateson also bagged a fine goal.
TheWombletonManofthe Match was shared between Dickinson and central midfielder Paul Cook, while centre-back Jack Mosley won the Dale award.
Second division leaders The Valley entertained Amotherby & Swinton Reserves in the league on Saturday.
The first half started in lightning fashion for Valley as Rafal Jackow was brought down in the area by Andy Rouph and a penalty was awarded. Rich Tolliday’s effort was saved by James Kerrison.
However,Valleycapitalised on the resulting corner with captain Jake Adams volleying
home.
Valley then scored three quickfiregoalsfromfinepassing moves, the goals coming from Harry Ward, and then a Tolliday brace, the second an overhead kick sublimely executedfromtheedgeofthearea intothetopcorner.Wardthen notched a second to make the score 5-0 at the break.
In the second half Amotherby tested the Valley keeper a couple of times and were unlucky that some good play didn’t lead to anything. But the Valley defence stood firm and Ward completed his hat-trick before sub Luke McNulty came on to add a brace and make the final score 8-0 to Valley.
The Valley Man of the
Matchwassharedbyhat-trick hero Ward and a solid display at centre-half from captain Adams, Nick Lock won the Amotherby & Swinton award.
Second-placed Sinningtonentertainedfourth-placed Goldsborough, the game finishing in a thrilling 1-1 draw.
Following a cross from Simon Taylor, Nathan Smurthwaite opened the scoring in what could be a strong contender for goal of the season, on five minutes.
The cross was slightly behind the centre-half who having adjusted well went for the spectacular overhead kick, he connected perfectly sending theballflashingpastthekeeper giving him no chance.
Goldsborough continued to dominate the next 10 minutes before a goal completely against the run of play got the home team back on level terms.
A deep free-kick was loftedintotheareaandwithPeter Diaz-Thomson slightly misjudging the flight of the ball hespilledandLukeBalderson reacted first to slam into the empty net.
A minute later and the home side could have had the lead, a long range effort by Archie Turner was heading in but Diaz-Thomson did brilliantly to palm over his crossbar.
Sinnington were now seeing much more of the ball and on 25 minutes had another chance, Balderson turned his man, the effort was saved again by Diaz-Thomson turningroundhispostforacorner.
The first big chance of the second half came Boro’s way. A ball played into the box took a couple of deflections before findingDamonCraigandwith an open goal was open, the angle was against Craig whose effort ended up going agonisingly wide.
On82minutesDiaz-Thomson saved a Dougie Brewster effort for the Sinners.
Man of the Match winners werecentre-backJoeJohnson (Sinnington) and Jonathon Morrison(Goldsborough),the lattermakinghisseconddebut for United