Division Three: Corsham Park Rangers heaped more misery on bottom of the table White Horse FC who for a second week running played a match with only 10 men and unsurprisingly suffered a 5-1 defeat. Rangers Kelvin Stewart followed up Martin Perrett's shot to put his team one up, Martin Perrett met John Parsons cross to make it 2-0. Andy Field halved the deficit in the second half for the White Horse before Nick Perrett's great individual effort made it 3-1. Martin Perrett slid home his second of the game and Rangers fourth in the 70th minute and Steve Goulding combined with Jake Marshall to slot home number five 12 minutes from time to earn Rangers their second triumph of the season.
Biddestone White Horse claimed their sixth victory of the season and with other results going in their favour it allowed them to open up a three-point lead on the chasing pack at the top of Division three. Biddestone hosted Blue Circle (Sunday) and even though Biddestone only led by the odd goal at the interval they were always on top in a match that neither team really hit top form. Tamlyn Goodrich played a staring role in Biddestone's win. He set up the first goal for Edward Jones, and scored the second himself before he had an assist in another goal for Jones. Two further goals from Scott Fleming made up the five before Wayne Bristow hit the cement boy's consolation.
Little George FC defeated their bitter rivals AFC Melksham in a fiercely contested affair at Christie Miller, Melksham which referee Maurice Chilcott did well to control as things threatened to reach boiling point. Little George leapfrogged Melksham and took second spot thanks to their 4-0 success and although Melksham had two players sent off in the second period the game was already as good as won. Having postponed against AFC Bell, last weekend, Melksham knew that they couldn't afford to call off against so manager Mike Rogers fielded an under strength side against their Chippenham based opponents who welcomed back Nat Auckland to the starting 11, but other than Auckland Little George were also missing a few players but they managed to keep their discipline while Melksham were losing theirs'. Little George eventually eased to what was a comfortable win thanks to a virtuoso display from Jack Couthope who netted all four goals for the winners. Chris Dore and Raf Whitcher received their marching orders for Melksham after they both picked up two yellow cards.
Bromham (Sunday) finished their match against Pack Horse Rangers with two more points to their tally but with another player sent off. Bromham won 2-0 thanks to goals from Steve Moxham who drove home a beauty from 25 yards and Sean Kingsbury who was returning to the side after a suspension. Rangers missed many chances with Gary Duguid and Phil Clark being guilty of missing more than one each and with no recognised keeper Rangers did well to keep the scored down to two with deputising shot stopper Chris Ferris having a good game. The low point of the match came in the 56th minute when match referee Chris Morris booked Bromham's Rob Sandiford for unsporting behaviour which was quickly followed by a second yellow for dissent which led to a red card much to the announce of Sandiford who then was alleged to have shoved referee Harris who suffered no ill effects and to his credit completed the match.
Karl Hatala might only be in temporary charge of The Crown FC, but the acting manager will have good news for his number one Mark Adamson when he returns from his holiday after he kept the Devizes based sides revival going with a five 4-0 success over Chippenham West End Club for who it was their first loss in four matches. Jack Fisher scored the Crown's opener from the penalty spot on 37 minutes. Nick Harford scored his teams second in the 66th minutes and two minutes later the points were made safe when John Oram scored the third of the game before Neil Fletcher stroked home the Crown's second penalty of the match in the 76th minutes to complete the scoring.
Westbury Rangers B and Churchill Arms were involved in a five-goal thriller which Rangers edged 3-2 thanks to a winning goal deep into injury time, but had it not been for Churchill's keeper Mike Burton the game would have been won by Ranger's long before Ian Standing bagged the winner. Neil Gordon put Rangers in front, but his effort was cancelled out by Shaun Warren who levelled matters. Rangers then introduced substitute Ian standing and he had an immediate effect as his first touch saw him put Rangers back in front. Churchill fashioned an equaliser for the second time in the game and Jeff Jenks first goal for the West Lavington based side looked to have earned them a share of the spoils until Standing scrambled home the winner just before the final whistle sounded.
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