Almondsbury stay in third spot

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Monday, April 20, 2009
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Almondsbury Town stayed in third place in the Hellenic League Premier Division despite being held to a 2-2 draw at mid-table Hook Norton that ended their unbeaten run of 10 successive victories.

Table-topping Hungerford Town were 2-1 home winners over Wantage Town, while second in the table Shortwood United were without a game and fourth-placed Witney United beat Milton United 3-0.

Almondsbury manager Paul Weeks said: "It was disappointing. After a poor first-half performance, we dominated but didn't put away our chances."

Brad Andrews' through-ball opened up the Hook Norton defence to put Adam Cole clear and he gave Almondsbury a14th-minute lead.

Hook equalised midway through the half when defender Lee Bridson failed to cut out a free-kick to leave Peter Vaughan with the chance to score.

Another Almondsbury mix-up then allowed Vaughan to make it 2-1 early in the second half.

Cole was denied an equaliser when his header was cleared off the line by a defender, but Almondsbury's pressure finally paid off when Danny Haines broke into the penalty area and was brought down.

Kane Ingram scored a deserved equaliser from the penalty spot.

Almondsbury kept up the pressure with Sahr Kabba and John Lock both hitting the woodwork, while Cole was unlucky to see his header cleared off the line.

In Division One West, seventh- placed Winterbourne United went on a goalscoring spree with a 6-0 victory at Cirencester United, who are just one place off the foot of the table.

Leading scorer Jimmy Potts gave Winterbourne an early lead with Sam Vile adding a second goal before the interval.

James Mainstone hit a hat-trick in 20 minutes in the second half to make it 5-0 before Potts completed the scoring late in the game.

Hardwicke, who had already clinched the Division One West title, were comfortable winners over visiting Tytherington Rocks who held them to a goalless opening 45 minutes before going a goal down early in the second half.

Tytherington failed to defend a long throw in to leave Andy Varnom with the chance to score the only goal of the game.

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