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Sunday 5th September 2010
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Matches played Saturday 17th October 2009
Cross Keys head into next round of League Junior Cup.
Cross Keys Cottingham are heading into the second round of the Amateur League Junior Cup after a seven goal contest against West Hull United – and do so after the first three of their four goals were headed home.
The opening goal of the game came as early as the second minute when a well delivered corner was headed in by Wayne Kirk, and 20 minutes later Ollie Purcheon used his head to record Keys second goal, and secure a comfortable half time lead.
Cross Keys’s third goal was nodded home by Rich Hook who rounded off some fine team work down the right hand side, but this signalled a fight back by West Hull and Izunna Uzokwe pulled a goal back.
Keys looked to have made the tie safe when Wayne Kirk added his side’s fourth goal – unusually by way of his foot!!
West Hull had by no means thrown in the towel, and Tony Longden pulled a second goal back, before Keys despatched substitute Liam Carter into the action with instructions to ‘get stuck in’.
Unfortunately Liam took his orders too literally and, with five minutes remaining, floored a West Hull player in the penalty area, and up stepped Uzokwe to score his second goal.
Cross Keys retained their now narrow lead through to the final whistle, and in fact, almost added to their tally when, with almost the final touch of the game, Mark Delves came within inches of glory.
Swiss Cottage were playing their first ever game in the League Senior Cup and looked to face a difficult first round task against The Lair at Hull University, but believed in their own ability and from the off, took the game to The Lair and were rewarded with a great strike from the in-form Ben Bassett which he hit from 25 yards out and all that the Lair keeper, Rich Boynton, could do was watch the ball fly into the top corner of the net.
Swiss were winning the battle in the centre of the park, and with nice play down both wings, looked like going into the interval at least a goal up.
Failing to take easy chances can come back to haunt you, and did just that, when, seconds before the break, the Lair mounted a nice passing movement down the left and a pin point cross from the winger found the head of Scott Pickering who guided the ball over the advancing John Scott - and the scores were level at the break.
When the second half resumed – with The Lair having reshuffled to cover for an injury caused by a late tackle – the pattern of the Lair mounting attacks continued, but they could not find that killer finish, and Swiss came back into the game and began to dominate and when substitute Jack Wheelhouse came on and into the attack, his first touch of the ball brought a brilliant diving save from The Lair keeper. The resulting corner found Jack Wheelhouse unmarked in the box and hammered the ball home to give Swiss the lead.
Swiss passed the ball around with confidence and on the hour, Shaun Scotthorne latched on to a Ben Bassett pass to place the ball past keeper Boynton.
The Lair now had to throw caution to the wind and pushed up to try and salvage something from the game but Swiss capitalised on this and with 10 minutes remaining, a brilliant long pass deep out of defence split the Lair wide open and Jack Wheelhouse scored his second and Swiss's fourth to put them safely into the 2nd round of the cup.
Eddie Beedle’s first round game was a home tie against old rivals Kingburn Athletic,Reserves and in good playing conditions the opening exchanges were pretty even.
In the 15th minute, the first good chance of the game fell to Kingburn, but Beedle keeper Danny Hill made a great triple save to keep them out.
Following this scare, it was the Beedle who recorded the opening goal, when Chris Tooley flicked the ball home from a corner just before the break.
After half time, Beedle stepped up a gear and created more chances and Craig Copley added to the score within minutes of the resumption.
The width of the cross bar prevented Matty Carr, who found himself in space from a corner, further adding to the lead……and away went Kingburn to pull a goal back!
This setback possibly acted as a spur to Beedle who shortly afterwards made the score 3 – 1 with a well taken goal, neatly slotted into the corner of the net by substitute Mark Dixon, for his first ever goal for Beedle.
The score advanced to 4-1 when Craig Copley was awarded a penalty following a tackle from behind, and he picked himself up to coolly slot the ball home.
With 5 minutes remaining on the referee’s watch, the hard working Matty Carr grabbed the final goal of the game to extend Eddie Beedle’s unbeaten record
in all league and cup competitions this season.
Pinefleet Wolfreton made a dream start to their cup clash with Quaddy Rangers, aided by two defensive slip-ups.
Five minutes into the action, Pinefleet’s Liam Stafford took a free-kick which he sent into the area, and the ball eluded everyone and found the bottom corner of the net.
If this set back was not enough, after 15 minutes, Pinefleet increased their lead when a misunderstanding between the Quaddy centre half and keeper Mark Foster resulted in Andy Pegden sliding the ball into an empty net.
There followed a period where both teams were breaking away but missing chances.
Pinefleet were unnerved in the 35th minute when Quaddy ‘s Dave Bettney appeared to go in late on keeper Dean Brown, and even more so, when eight minutes later an apparent case of mistaken identity led to a penalty being conceded, but Dean Brown righted any potential wrongs when he pulled off a great save from Mark Thompson’s spot kick.
With Pinefleet still elated at Brown’s save, they did not switch back on and Bettney scored a deserved goal for Quaddy from the corner, which in reality, had been coming for the several minutes.
The second half started off pretty much in the same vein as the first ended with Quaddy pushing forward a lot but unable to break down the Pinefleet defence, for whom Dave Fee who was playing at centre half for the first time, and being only a little over five feet tall, was outstanding in the air against much bigger rivals.
As the game went past the hour mark, Quaddy missed a couple of golden chances to equalise and paid the price when Pinefleet broke away, and the pace of Andy Pegden saw him go clear and try to round keeper Mark Foster who just missed the ball and brought him down, resulting in a dismissal for a professional foul.
Gareth Monkman then stepped up and put the ball past stand-in keeper Rich Wilcox, to make the score 3-1.
The last twenty minutes saw pretty much a case of stalemate with Pinefleet content to play out the remaining minutes until they hit Quaddy, who had to press forward, on the break and this time Andy Pegden made no mistake to ensure Pinefleet’s progression in the competition.
AFC Hull suffered several late withdrawals for their Senior Cup match against Cavalier Wanderers, and a reshuffled side saw midfielder Sean McFaul and striker Sam Nicholson filling in at the back, while the reserve team's Lee Carron stepped up to the first team bench.
AFC Hull almost got off to a perfect start when Nathan Nuttall squared the ball to Tony Tummon, whose chipped shot was saved under the crossbar by Wanderers' keeper John Batte.
With eight minutes played, Cavalier almost opened the scoring themselves, when AFC Hull's makeshift defence allowed a forward to steal into the area but keeper Craig Lindley's quick reflexes denied the forward any reward.
With just over a quarter of an hour gone, Mark Friston danced through the Cavalier defence before laying the ball off to Tony Tummon, who picked his spot and placed the ball into the back of the net for his first goal of the match, and less than two minutes later, Tummon netted again, this time Nathan Nuttall threaded a ball through to his fellow striker, who blasted the ball home from close range.
Despite concerns about the defensive line, Nicholson and McFaul were working well at the back in conjunction with usual defenders Callum Harrison and Damon Brookes.
In particular, Sam Nicholson's strong tackles and pace broke up many of Cavalier's forays forward and provided a good platform for counter-attacking.
Having found his shooting boots, Tony Tummon's confidence was sky high and with nine minutes of the half remaining, AFC Hull were awarded a free kick twenty five yards from goal. The set piece found Tummon eight yards out with his back to goal, and he elected to try a bicycle kick but only found the waiting arms of Wanderers' keeper John Batte.
As the half wore on, AFC Hull continued to carve out chances, and a one-two between Ian Tuttle and Nathan Nuttall broke through Cavalier's defence, but Tuttle's blasted shot went narrowly wide of the upright. Sixty seconds later, Tuttle's pass found Tummon who put the ball past Batte to complete a nineteen-minute hat-trick.
As the half wore on, AFC Hull continued to carve out chances, and a one-two between Ian Tuttle and Nathan Nuttall broke through Cavalier's defence, but Tuttle's blasted shot went narrowly wide of the upright.
AFC Hull went into the second half in buoyant mood and Nathan Nuttall almost added his name to the score sheet thirty seconds after the restart, but Batte did well to stop the forward's shot. Seven minutes later, an excellent Nuttall cross found the head of Liam Lewis at the far post, but Lewis couldn't quite direct his header on goal.
Determined to score his first goal for the club, Nuttall blasted the ball goalwards from twenty-five yards a little after the hour mark, only to be denied by an excellent save from John Batte.
Nuttall finally scored a well-earned first goal in the seventy-ninth minute, placing the ball past a sprawling John Batte and AFC Hull continued to look for more goals as the clock ran down - a Sam Nicholson pass found Ian Tuttle in space, but Tuttle's shot was deflected by a swiftly retreating Cavalier defender for a corner.
With only five minutes remaining, Ian Tuttle again found himself in space and brought another excellent save from Cavalier’s man of the match John Batte. Cavalier were unlucky to catch AFC Hull on the day the side rediscovered their form.
The League Junior Cup match between AFC Piper and AFC Malt Shovel was delayed by the non-arrival of the appointed official, but went ahead when Malt Shovel Secretary Phil Liversedge took the whistle, and did an excellent job, aided not least by two very sporting teams who deserve credit for their honesty and attitude.
It was ironic that this was one of the day’s two games which went to extra time, after two Malt Shovel goals from Tim Pearce and Lee Kenny were cancelled out, but two further strikes within minutes of the start of extra time by J Jackson, who came on as substitute, decided the tie in Shovel’s favour.
Queens County have hit a good run of form in their league campaign, but found themselves under considerable pressure from Grassroots Sports (BHE) with a few shots flying goal ward from Grassroots top scorer Bryn Moore.
The score line remained blank until the last 10 minutes of the game when Grassroots keeper Danny Donnely gave away a silly penalty which proved decisive as it was expertly put away and two minutes later the keeper crowned a disasterous match finale with an another blunder, dropping the ball into his own net. Who would be a goalkeeper??
Okapi FC built up a three goal lead against Orchard Park United, and appeared to be cruising into the next round of the Cup, but a headed response from Anthony Graham immediately after the restart, followed quickly by a second goal from Ryan Prescott put a different complexion on the game.
A penalty, considered to be dubious by Orchard, was converted by Okapi to re-establish a two goal advantage, but again Anthony Graham again struck for Orchard, and all was back in the melting pot.
A last minute goal for Okapi, produced a final, more comfortable score line, but the last minute strike was also disputed.
Paull Wanderers won their first trophy last season, and are determined to hang on the silverware and gave a five star show in their first defence of the Junior Cup against Kingstown AFC.
Four changes from the previous week, saw first starts of the season for Mark Rigione, Dave Brennan and manager Mark Sexton, and after only three minutes had elapsed at least on of the changes had made his mark as Karl Smith’s pass found Mark Sexton with time, inside the box, and he put the ball under the keeper for his first goal in over a year.
This was just the encouragement Paull needed, and after 15 minutes another barren spell was ended when last season’s top scorer Terry Thompson found himself in space and ran with the ball before shooting into the back of the net for his first goal of this campaign.
Five minutes later, a good long ball from defender Danny Meyerhoff found Tommy Donnelly who was one-on-one with Kingstown keeper Sean Wright, with Karl Smith in support, but opted to lob the keeper and found the top corner with ease.
A twenty minute spell, during which time James Sexton and Thompson should have scored, passed before Paull eventually recorded their fourth goal, James Sexton making no mistake from Donnelly’s pass.
Paull made halftime substitutions which changed the balance and rhythm of the side, and though a fifth goal was scored by Karl Smith after 65 minutes following a good pass from Mark Sexton, Kingstown were much more competitive in the second period, closing down many of Paull’s previously effective moves.
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