Towners up to second

Pitching In Isthmian Premier brought us a North London derby, as Wingate & Finchley welcomed Enfield Town to the Maurice Rebak Stadium. The hosts had won three in a row prior to their narrow defeat against Dulwich Hamlet last Tuesday night, and knew that another win would take them above their visitors and into third place- but turning that hope into reality proved rather difficult, as the Towners had other ideas. Reece Beckles-Richards put the visitors ahead after only eight minutes, finishing a pass from Marcus Wyllie, but the hosts were level eighteen minutes later, Elliot Long with a tap in after Rhys Forster parried the initial effort on his goal.

After the break the match was rather one sided. Wyllie went from provider to scorer, his thirteenth of the campaign arriving eight minutes after the restart, and just after the hour it was three-one to the visitors, George Sykes putting away a Mickey Parcell free kick. Seven minutes from time Sam Youngs continued his rather prolific season, getting his eleventh goal- and scoring for the third successive match- to clinch a four-one win and send his side up to second.

That’s one win in nine for the Blues against the Towners.

Image from Tom Scott- more here.

Reposs Isthmian Women’s Cup

Whilst Haringey Borough’s mens side were on the road in Cup competition, their women were at Coles Park, and welcomed Billericay Town in the second round of the competition. Borough’s women’s side have had a fine start to their season, and indeed defeat against Wroxham last time out was their first of the campaign, whilst their visitors reached the Final last season and were rather unlucky on the night, losing a scintillating match on penalties- and Town will hope they are on the way to another crack at silverware after wining a tight match by two goals to nil.

Substitute Janaye Beaufort opened the scoring in the fifty seventh minute, only twelve minutes after coming on, and the second, decisive goal arrived soon afterwards, Che Thomas scoring only four minutes later.

Velocity Cup

Billericay Town had defeated four Pitching In Isthmian North sides in cup competitions this season prior to the visit of Bowers and Pitsea last night- and two late goals took that tally up to five. Bowers resistance was finally broken sixteen minutes from time, Alfie Cerulli- who had only been on the field for three minutes- opening the scoring. Bowers remained firmly in the match until almost full time, when another substitute, Lewin Browne, made it two. He’d only been on the field for eight minutes.

Ipswich Wanderers put their recent progress to the test against Pitching In Isthmian Premier opposition, Haringey Borough making a slow, regularly delayed and rather frustrating journey to Suffolk. The visitors were rather frustrated for much of the first half, too, falling behind to a Kie Dyer goal on thirty six minutes- but once they equalised just before the break the road to success suddenly became clearer. Nadum Melvin-Lambert got that opener, and the Borough number nine added two more after the break to claim the match ball, scoring on the hour and seven minutes later. His second was Borough’s third, as Matthew Young got his twelfth of the season to make it two-one ten minutes after the restart.

Three Bridges saw their unbeaten league record end with a bump as Lancing hit them for four at the weekend, and hoped that result was a one-off as Pitching In Isthmian Premier side Chatham Town came to call. The Chats had lost to South East opposition in the FA Trophy on Saturday, and had only one win from five in all competitions, but after a hard-fought match eventually triumphed by four goals to two. Bridges went ahead after just two minutes, Camron Lawson getting his fifth of the campaign, but the Chats turned the game around quite quickly, Dean Beckwith levelling and Ben Allen putting them ahead. On twenty five minutes Ibrahim Jalloh levelled for the hosts, taking his tally to five goals in six matches, but the Chats got the decisive goal midway through the second half, veteran striker Danny Kedwell making it three-two. Seven minutes from time Kareem Isiaka added as fourth for the visitors, ensuring their progress.

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