Midweek Commencing Monday 16th August

In the Premiership Chester Hiilda  Park Entertained Sacriston Cricket Club

This was another hard fought contest with both sides having there opportunities to win the match.,with 17 mins to go Hilda Park got into the Cricketers half and won a throw in which was fired into the  box and the Hilda Park player got a good glancing header onto the ball which went into the corner of the net.This goal was totally against the run of play at that time and we battled hard to get our game going again but the goal had given Hilda Park the lift they needed and the game was effectively over on 86 mins when after a good challenge by John Robson 25 yards out we conceded a free kick which was well struck near the top corner of our goal where Hall got a good hand to it but couldn’t stop it going in.Even then we still created chances in the final few mins to score but it wasn’t to be and we came away with a 2-0 defeat despite having a very strong side and bench available to us.

 Full credit to Hilda Park who played very well at times and I think they will do very well this season particularly on their own pitch and the two forwards and Smith the centre half were outstanding.
Credit goes to the referee Terry Metcalfe as well who kept his cards in his pocket for the whole game despite a number of fouls given in the game which were hard honest tackles and he kept up with the play at all times and was very approachable throughout the game. The best referee we have had in years.

Other results from the premier league Thursday 19th August 2010.

Langley Park WMC 2 Pelton RAOB 6
Kelloe WMC 2 Sedgefield St.Edmunds 1
Hetton Lyons CC 3 Brandon Bay Horse 0
Newton Aycliffe WMC 4 Ferryhill WMC 2

 Pelaw Grange Dogs fC opened their home game with a good 4-2 win over Pittington FC on Tuesday night. By half time they were 3 nil up with goals from Chris Hawkins, Paul Curry from a header and Neil Worley. In the second half Pittington pulled one back but then Chris Hawkins made it 4-1 before Pittington made it 4-2. Craig Bain was replaced by Peter Snowball and Gary Ryan came on as well. Later in the game Anthony Nicholson came on for the last 10 minutes.

Shadforth Plough Climbed  to second in the table with a confident performance over new boys Witton Gilbert Wmc , The Plough  from the first whistle 3 points were from taking and they got the ball down and played it around confidently, unlike Sunday we kept hold the of the ball and didn’t try to force it and it worked to good effect. The Plough opted for the 3 – 5 – 2 again, Stu Coxon moving into centre midfield and Simpson up top with Moore.

Stu Coxon opened the scoring to make it two from two for him this season, and it was exactly what he deserved, showing persistence pays off he closed down the keeper, who played it off him, Stu ran to the touch line and fired home from a tight angle, 1 – 0 to the Plough.

 We then kept the ball and did it well, Collingwood in goal was rarely troubled a couple of easy saves for him. The second goal came from Martin Denney’s hard work, he tracked the run of their of left winger and won the ball played it to Rob Wade who played a great 40 yard ball to Simpson, he waited for the keeper to come before lifting it over him and slotting home to double the plough’s lead before half time. The half time team talk was to get the ball down and play exactly how we just had, but most importantly don’t concede. Dan Hall limped off early on in the second half to be replaced by Jack Jones, he made a good run down the left hand-side squared it to Wade who looked up and put Moore through on goal, from 12 yards Moore wasn’t going to miss he drilled It into the top corner. Philip Connor left the pitch so Moore went to centre half, he was replaced by Stephen Clifford. Assistant Manager Craig Robson came onto replace Stu Coxon with 10 minutes to go. The Plough gave 110% as they stay unbeaten, and keep their first clean sheet of the season, they travel to Ferryhill on Sunday and another 3 point’s is wanted by the team. And they want to keep their good start to the season going. Stuart Coxon Man of the Match.

Chester Osborne opened their account for the season with a 2-1 win over the Burnside WMC. Chris Winn making it 1-0 in the first half with the burnside drawing level soon after. New signing Dan Johnson scored in the second