Green shoots down AEK Boco

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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AEK Boco 3 Bristol City JSC 0

Jack Green's double strike and a Tommy Winstone's goal earned AEK Boco Under-11s a 3-0 Division A win against Bristol City JSC.

Green put his side on the road to victory with a super individual first-half goal, racing through the City defence and placing his shot wide of the keeper.

Some fine through balls from Bradley Wheadon and Josh Kellet Butt, and a series of precision crosses by Georgina Lacey, kept Boco on the front foot and City had to work overtime to reduce the threat.

With the wind behind them in the second half, Boco powered forward and two further goals from Green and Winstone, the latter with a classic poacher's finish, wrapped up the win.

The points were awarded to Boco despite the fact that the miserable weather meant the game was ended early.

It was the same story in the Division A match between Mangotsfield United A and Warmley Rangers, which was abandoned 15 minutes into the second half with Rangers ahead 3-0 courtesy of goals from Callum Carter, Jay Vile and George Kellow.

Division A leaders Bitton swept to a 6-0 victory over Yate United.

A well-taken goal from Jordan Cribb, following a lovely through-ball by Seli Prenci, opened the scoring.

A carbon-copy finish from Prenci, thanks to a great Jak Griffiths pass, made it 2-0 and Cribb struck his second goal of the match as Bitton led 3-0 at half-time.

After a strong run from Connor Griffiths, Luke Saward fired the first of a second-half brace before Harry Sutton struck the sixth to complete the scoring.

With keeper Charlie Cains and his defence maintaining yet another clean sheet, Bitton comfortably picked up another three points in their quest for the title.

St Nicholas stole the honours with a hard-fought 2-1 victory in an entertaining Division B encounter with local rivals Yate Rangers.

A mistake by the Yate keeper let in Harry Phillips to give Saints a 1-0 lead. But, as in previous weeks, Yate came back strongly and their never-say-die attitude brought them level when a long-range effort by Matty Isles curled in at the far post to make it 1-1 at half-time.

Saints' winner came when a long ball fell into the path of Phillips, who looked a yard offside but ran on to score. With star performers Joe Wood and Isles leading by example, Yate kept battling in the worsening conditions but were unable to get the goal – and share of the points – they deserved.

Coalpit Heath proved too hot for Bradley Stoke as they swept to a 5-1 victory in Division B.

Playing with a different formation and a couple of positional changes, Heath started in positive mood with Jack Thomson and Matthew Bligh going close.

Thomson grabbed the first goal following good approach play before James Cooper's cracking first-time shot into the roof of the net gave them a 2-0 half-time lead.

Bradley Stoke began the second period in determined mood and Bradley Pearce scored with a great shot from outside the box.

But Ali Mitchell showed remarkable composure to finish with his wrong foot to restore Heath's two-goal advantage, Thomson scored his second from a tight angle and Aaron Blake's superb left-wing cross was deflected into the net for the fifth.

Ashton Boys ran out 4-2 winners against a strong Whitchurch team in another Division B clash.

Ashton twice took the lead through Wilf Styles' lob and a long-range strike by Ryan-Lee Williams, but Whitchurch hit back to equalise and set up an exciting finale.

Ashton finally nosed in front as Dan Crouch scored with a powerful header and Adam Preece sealed the game with a fine solo run and finish.

Fry Club Colts produced an excellent performance against Bristol Rovers JSC, only to fall to an unlucky 2-0 defeat in another game which had an early finish.

Rovers capitalised on some scrappy defending to take an early lead. Louis Heitzman fired what he thought was Fry's equaliser just before half-time only to see it ruled out.

Fry's refused to be disheartened and came out fighting in the second half, but defenders Jack Sheehan, Cameron Summers, Callum Lee and Will Matthews were caught unawares as Rovers notched a second goal.

In Division C, Sam Farrow scored his first goal of the season as Whitchurch B squeezed home 4-3 in a top-of- the-table clash against Oldland Abbotonians.

Whitchurch went in front when left-back Farrow scored with a wind-assisted lob after collecting a pass from Reece Phillips, and some incisive passing between Warren Russell and Jordan Sargent enabled the latter to make it 2-0.

Oldland pulled one back, Charlie Millard scoring with a clever chip from a tight angle, only for Whitchurch to restore their 2-0 cushion as Kyle Salcombe's cross found Louis Belleara in space to score with a diving header.

Despite Aron Farqharson and Anthony Brown clearing up most things that came their way, Oldland came storming back to level up at 3-3 with an own goal and Ryan Langdon's header.

But Josh King snatched victory for the hosts from Salcombe's corner to end Oldland's six-game winning run.

Connor Griffin's fine hat-trick helped Broadwalk to a 5-2 victory over Warmley Rangers B in Division C.

Kevin Pearce and Michael Lee-Nash scored the other two goals against a Warmley side who battled hard throughout.

Callum Loud and Callum Whiting netted their consolation goals.

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