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Tuesday 7th September 2010
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Matches played Saturday 26th September 2009
Super Shield Successes.
The representation of the East Riding area in the Yorkshire Old Boys’ Shield remains relatively strong, but the number of entrants from the Amateur League has declined as teams have elected to ply their trade in different environments, but the first games this season, in both the Preliminary and First Rounds, produced encouraging results for the league’s entrants, with all three teams securing convincing wins.
AFC Preston have entered the competition, which enables teams to face different opponents from all over Yorkshire, for the last few seasons, but without much success.
It may be that Preston, who notoriously start the season slowly, find the matches arrive a little too early, but on this occasion they travelled to, and glided past Western Juniors OB (Leeds) by a comfortable 5-2 margin in the first round.
Another first round winner was The Lair who were sampling the competition for the first time, and accounted for another Leeds team, Shadwell by a 4-0 scoreline.
The Lair put their visiting opponents under pressure from the first whistle, dominating possession and Shadwell only managed an odd break or long ball attempt.
The Lair started testing the opposition keeper with shots from in and around the penalty area but initially failed to hit the target.
The breakthrough came after 15 minutes following a corner taken by Andy Waller, and after a scramble in the box, and at the second attempt, Paul Matchett managed to put the ball into the back of the net.
After the restart, the Lair, though back in control, conceded a corner, but quickly won the ball back, and launched a counter attack which saw Liam Khan put a 40 yard ball through to Rob Hunter who outpaced the Shadwell defenders and calmly beat the keeper, placing the ball into the bottom corner for the second goal, and the score remained unchanged to the break.
Shadwell began the second half with a much more determined attitude, and enjoyed a greater share of possession than previously, though the Lair’s continued failures in front of goal may have contributed to this.
The Lair introduced substitute Joe Baxter after 55 minutes, and began to regain control and a quarter of an hour later, Baxter had the ball in the back of the net, again after Khan again set up the chance.
The final goal of the game was scored in the 80th minute after John Longthorn headed a ball through to Steve Penrose who in turn headed in from close range.
Eddie Beedle FC have one round further to progress through, having been drawn in the preliminary round of the competition against Old Centralians (Leeds), but also made home advantage count to run up a comfortable 5-1 winning margin.
On the league front in Division 1, it was something of a red-letter day for Cross Keys (Cottingham) as it is a long time since one of their players scored has scored a hat-trick but that was achieved by virtually the youngest player in their squad, Ollie Purcheon, in a game which was largely dominated by opponents Paull Wanderers!!
Games between the two clubs have been closely fought affairs in recent times, but this game bore a different complexion early one with Cross Keys taking a two goal lead inside the first two minutes courtesy of Purcheon who rifled the ball home with style and accuracy, having firstly taken advantage of really poor defending, and then a half clearance, and this comfortable opening led Keys to believe they were in for a romp.
Acknowledging their abysmal start, Paull realised that they had to dig deep, and began to dominate play, and forced a succession of corners which were cleared until one clearance was swiftly returned into the path of Tommy Donnelly who hammered the ball goalwards, only to see his shot saved but the ball ran into the path of Danny Wilbor who planted it into the back of the Key’s net.
Other chances fell to Paull before the break but were not taken and the attack minded home side were reminded that Keys should be shown respect when their keeper Liam Smith was forced to make a good save to prevent his side falling further behind.
The start of the second half was almost a replica of the first, but keeper Liam Smith did just enough to prevent a Keys forward heading his side further ahead.
Paull felt they were denied a penalty after 49 minutes after a foul on James Sexton, but pressed on and went close when Dan Meyerhoff headed against the bar from a corner, followed by Karl Smith volleying over.
Paull finally got the equaliser they deserved when Keys keeper John Hawkes fumbled and Donnelly was on hand to tap the ball in.
The half became very tense and Keys lost captain Rich Murphy and back four mainstay James Brash to injury, but the substitutes battled well and the game was turned upside down again when more poor defence by Paull allowed Ollie Purcheon to head his hat-trick goal.
Paull were shocked to be back in this position and bombarded the Key’s goal, only to see goalmouth clearances and the bar rattled, and worse of all, around 77 minutes, the failure of top scorer Tommy Donnelly to convert a penalty, when he shot straight at keeper Hawkes.
There are times when football seems unfair, as perhaps demonstrated at Paull but even greater injustice occurred at King George V, on Cottingham Road where AFC Piper played Spring Bank Tigers.
The game itself was highly competitive, and played in a good spirit, and while the Spring Bank team playing some delightful football, but their moves were, at times, matched by the visitors.
As half time loomed, a goal-less first half seemed inevitable, until a snap shot from outside the area by a Piper forward rocketed into the net.
The score went from bad to worse for Spring Bank as Piper doubled their lead after the break, but still Spring bank refused to give up, and the more the game continued, the more they got on top.
It seemed that a goal would never come, but with only a couple of minutes left, a breakthrough was achieved when Daria Shaker finished sweetly, slipping the ball beyond the keeper.
A frantic last few minutes saw Piper withstand all the efforts of Spring Bank who had played supremely well despite missing several key players.
Orchard Park United are still trying to find their feet in Division 2, and faced a Kingstown side who were also looking to record their first points.
The game really hinged on the few minutes before and after half time at which point Kingstown were awarded a penalty, which was successfully converted, and moments later, still before the break when a second was added.
The restart saw Orchard Park United awarded a penalty when Ryan Prescott was brought down in the area, and he converted the kick but the solitary response was insufficient, and the scores remained unchanged until very late on, when Kingstown added a third and decisive score.
Neighbours AFC Orchard on the other hand, have really found their feet after steady improvement over a couple of years yet started their game against the Duke of Wellington in a very nervous fashion, conceding a lot of the early possession which could have proved very costly, had the Duke’s players worn their shooting boots!!
Duke’s inability to find the net came back to haunt them midway through the first half when Orchard were awarded a free kick just outside the area following a foul on Chris Jopling and Nathan Atkinson stepped up to curl the ball around the wall and into the net, leaving the keeper no chance.
Not wishing to be out done, Jamie Lamplough tried an audacious lob from nearly forty yards out and left the Duke keeper clutching thin air, as he increased the half time score an ‘against the run of play’, two goal advantage to Orchard.
In the second half the Orchard team pushed on and began to get control of the game creating more and more chances, but just as things appeared to be were working smoothly Duke’s Khan Fullard latched onto a sloppy clearance and hit an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net - leaving Brian Coulson in goal with no chance of stopping the shot.
The setback – the first goal conceded by Orchard this season – spurred the side on and it was not long before they had wrapped the game up with two more goals from Chris Jopling and Nathan Atkinson’s second which capped off a fine display from the young player - although prior to these two goals, Graham Hoff had seen his penalty saved by the Duke keeper.
In the Premier Division, Kingburn Athletic Reserves scored through Nick Foster after 25 minutes against Sutton Fields Rangers, and the single strike was all that divided the teams at the break.
A 53rd minute penalty was conceded by Kingburn and this enabled Lee Jones to bring the scores level, after which the action switched from end to end, as neither team managed to gain the ascendancy.
Sutton Fields should have taken the match spoils when awarded a second penalty, but Kingburn keeper Ben Hamilton produced a superb low save diving to his left hand side and reflecting later, with points shared, both sides seemed content.
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