Pelton make sure of Runners Up spot

In the premier Division  goals from Mickle, Middlemas and a Double for Kerry gave Pelton Roab a 4-2 away win at Chester’s, a surprise result saw Washington Chevies win 4-2 at Sedgefield st Edmunds , St Edmunds went in 3-0 down at half time. Two second half goals by Shepherd and Smith were not enough to get St Eds back in the game and Chevys won 4 -2,In blustery conditions, Newton Aycliffe Wmc traveled to Kelloe Wmc, Aycliffe played with the wind in the 1st half but very rarely troubled Morris in Kelloe  goal. Kelloe wasted some good half chances and were made to rue those missed chances when Clough got caught in possession and the aycliffe no 9 clinically finished. After the break kelloe dominated but aycliffe were dangerous on the break and they hit the post through wood. Kelloe equalized when megran headed in a turton cross. Kelloe pushed but couldn't find a winner, final score 1-1. In the First Division Chilton Wmc entertained Washington Cross Keys ,Joe cornbill scored early in the game for Chilton. keys equalized after half time then late on in the game joe cornbill fed a pass through to sub dayle Taylor who scored the winner for Chilton to win 2-1.Sedgefield Social won 4-3 at Hilda Park and Burnside lost 4-0 at Sacriston Cricket Club,. In the second Division Houghton Chilton Lodge took the lead after 20 mins against visitors East Rainton Fc, when a long throw was headed in by Graham Colledge. After 40 mins 'Chilton’s' keeper Graham Defty kept his side in the lead by saving a penalty. Rainton were not to be denied however and they equalized a minute before half time when they headed in a corner. In the second half Rain ton took the game by the scruff of the neck by scoring three times in nine minutes, all crosses that were turned in to make it 4-1. A depleted Chilton side hit back however when Iain McPherson scored with a 25 yard shot after 80 mins, a minute later Gavin Tate turned in a free kick and with two mins to go the comeback was complete when David Firth headed home a cross to make it 4-4. Increditably Rainton hit back straight from the kick off when (one of their players) ran straight through the Chilton defense evading three tackles to shoot home in the last Minute and win the game 5-4, Ferryhill Saints won 3-1 at Durham Bede Lodge.New Durham hit Shadforth Plough  for 10...in a one sided game In the Third Division Pelaw Grange Dogs entertained Chester Red Lion , the Dogs went into the game needing a win to seal the league title. Pelaw struggled to get their passing going in the first half and both teams threatened mainly from long range. Pelaw got the breakthrough when sub Mark Lyall converted from close range as the ball broke across the face of the goal. Pelaw went 2-0 up when David Henderson was fouled in the box and Neil Worley stepped up to continue his 100% strike rate from the spot this season, slotting the ball calmly into the bottom corner. The Red Lion then went at Pelaw to try and salvage something from the game but there was little time left, and it finished 2-0 as Pelaw made it 13 wins on the trot to finish the season as champions. In a very scrappy game at Pelton were the Bird Inn entertained Pittington Fc ,It was a very scrappy game in poor conditions, pittington missed a hat full of chances before the bird in scored an dubious goal, the second came from a lucky bounce hitting a divot and bouncing over the keeper, there 3rd came from a daft penalty decision, in the second half pittington continued the pressure and pulled 2 goals back, but with 2 sending offs 1 for each side the game got even more scrappy, Final score  3-2 to the Bird Inn. New Brancepeth wmc and Chester Cricket Club drew 0-0 at New Brancepeth. In the 4th Division a good win home from Langley park Rams Head against Pity Me, which won them the league. Langley much better side all game and would of been more if not for pity me keeper who made well over 10 good saves. Goals from Steven mickle, Steven Cummings and Tony Rutter in first half got Langley going and Langley finished game of in last 5 minutes with a fine volley from Steven Cummings, Rams Head winning 4-0.

Sunday 15th

Sunday  15^th

In the Premier Division This game between Kelloe and Washington JFC was played in gale force wind, sunshine, and hailstones all in 90 minutes. Kelloe deserved there first half lead of 2-0 the 1st after a good move down the left saw there winger pass direct to the inside forward for a tap in, the second 1/2 min B4 h/t was a well taken header at the far post after a good move down the right. The 2nd half saw WJFC play some great football and with the wind assisting had Kelloe under pressure from the kick off, however as hard as they tried they just couldn’t find a goal, several chances made but not converted, then with 6 mins remaining Grainger hammered a header from a corner hitting the underside of the bar on its way in. 2-1 Kelloe it remained the same until the final whistle WJFC attacking looking for that equaliser but Kelloe defended well and came out the 2-1 victors. Hard fought game settled with 1st half goal for Pelton. St Eds hit bar and post but failed to score.Final score 1-0 to Pelton Roab. Newton Aycliffe wmc Attacked from the start with visitors Langley Park Steelers replying on the break. All of the goals came in the last 25 minutes with Mason & Owen scoring for Aycliffe before Dawson pulled one back for Steelers. Late goals by Brischuk & Mason secured all three points for Aycliffe.Brandon Sports entertained Washington Chevies, game in which Chevvy's showed a lot of commitment and fight and had that been the case all season you wonder if they would be in the position they are in now. However, Brandon played some good football, created many chances and scored 4 well created goals. Hetton Lyons Cricket Club travelled to Langley Park Wmc Craig Price opened the Scoring for The Lyons in the 16th minute with a strike from 30 yards giving the keeper no chance and Price had a great chance for his second goal in the 39th minute, Proctor was fouled in the penalty area and from the spot kick his shot went wide of the goal.Second half and Davis had a glorious chance to score but his shot was well saved from the Langley goalkeeper. Luke Proctor scored in the 51st minute when he beat the offside trap and rounded the keeper to score 0-2. Langley park weren't out of the game but had little to offer in front of goal and the Lyons went three up in the 74th minute, Kyle Davis won the ball in midfield and squared it to Bell and his inch perfect pass found Davis at the front of the goal to score 0-3. Luke Proctor got his well deserved second goal with minutes to go ,a beautiful ball put through from Craggs and proctor placed it past the goalkeeper 0-4.

 In the First Division Houghton Mill All Stars' completed their division one fixtures in exactly the same way as they started - by losing five games in a row! Fortunately they managed to tot up enough points in the intervening twelve games to keep out of the relegation zone and maintain their division one status.Premier League bound Coxhoe WMC were 2-1 winners in Mill's final game albeit in controversial circumstances. After fifteen minutes Coxhoe were awarded a penalty kick when Mill's Alistair Dodds was adjudged to have fouled a Coxhoe forward. Dodds protested his innocence after what appeared to be a good tackle - fortunately for Mill, keeper Dan Pearson made a splendid save from Adam Strong to keep the game goalless.However, Strong opened the scoring ten minutes later when he knocked in a low level cross from practically on the goal line. Mill were again unhappy as he appeared to be well offside. Paul Broom doubled Coxhoe's lead on thirty five minutes.
Mill's goal came on seventy eight minutes when a long ball from Mill's half was met by Shaun Corner who ran at Coxhoe's goal and side footed past advancing keeper Adam Mcdonald. There was some nailbiting moments for Coxhoe in the dying moments as Mill came close to an equaliser but the home side managed to hang on for the three points.Mill keeper Dan Pearson was their man of the match after he pulled off a number of quality saves. Coxhoe's Adam Strong was their star man.Sedgefield Social travelled to Sacriston Cricket Club, Sacriston started the game really well and went 1-0 ahead after 6 minutes when excellent work by Yates won us a free kick down the right hand side. James Thornton swung in a good free kick towards the far post and without a touch from anybody else the ball ended up in the corner of the net.Then the game got a bit scrappy and we just couldn’t get our passing game going and Sedgefield got level when Marc Bladen was adjudged to have committed a foul in the box although he clearly got the ball. The Sedgefield player placed his spot kick well into the bottom left hand corner of the net to make the score 1-1.Sedgefield nearly went ahead on 20 minutes when a cross came into our box and the Sedgefield forward got a looping glancing header on to the ball which rebounded of our post. Then a minute later Ward went close with a shot from 20 yards out which went just wide and into the side netting. Yates then went close with a header from James Thornton’s volleyed cross.Sacriston had very little height in central midfield and this was causing the team to lose out getting enough of the ball Sedgefield had played well once they had equalized and but for a great headed on possession and although we still looked dangerous when we went forward we were not clearance from Collinson on the near post following a Sedgefield header for a corner we would have been going in 2-1 down at half time.Within 20 seconds of the restart we had re-taken the lead when a long kick up field was flicked on by the head of Ward and Collinson challenged the on rushing Sedgefield keeper and got his head to the ball just before him and the ball went into the net via the right hand post. This settled the team down and within the next 20 minutes we made the game safe by scoring two more goals both scored by Yates and assisted by Collinson while playing our best football of the game. For the first goal Collinson played a little pass in the inside left channel and Yates pace beat the offside trap and he found himself with lots of time one on one with the keeper and he finished well with a side foot shot into the bottom right hand corner. Yates second goal came from a Collinson through ball down the centre and Yates didn’t even take a touch this time and his first time shot flew into the bottom left corner of the net to make it 4-1.Straughair came on for the excellent Ward and Appleby came on for his debut at centre half in place of O’Brien. We did ease off a little bit towards the end and Sedgefield got a goal back with 4 minutes to go when a long diagonal pass ended up in our right back position and despite the best efforts of Bladen with a last ditch tackle the Sedgefield player got in and hammered a shot into the net. Chilton took the lead with a Nicky Pickford penalty after 20 mins. After the break sub Michael searby scored twice and David Maugham scored 1 to make the final score 4 0With loads missing Sedgefield  NET Park travelled to Chilton still needing a point to guarantee their first division status. The start was a bit scrappy with both teams struggling to get going. On 20mins Chilton were awarded a dubious penalty with the Chilton player going down too easily, he finished the penalty well, h/t 1-0. Second half and NET Park had a few struggling and with only one already injured player to come on from the bench, Chilton had a choice from five players which in the end was the deciding factor with their sub coming on upfront and having the legs to do the damage with two goals, final score 4-0.

  In the Second Division Ferryhill Saints took the lead after 20 mins at Houghton Chilton Lodge, when the Chilton defence were unable to clear the ball, after two attempts the ball fell to one of Chester Plough Inn hosted league champions New Durham wmc and they game ended in a 1-1 draw. Chester Plough took the lead in the 20th minute with a fine strike from Mark Atchison following some good work from Hill and Cooper. New Durham wmc had the opportunity to equalise on the half hour mark when they were awarded a penalty but Ward put his shot well wide. Chester Plough had a perfectly good goal ruled out for offside despite being clearly onside. New Durham equalised through Graeme Brenkley midway through the second half. Both sides had opportunities to win it but a draw was a fair result F/T 1-1

In the Third Division Bowburn started badly  in the Home game against  New Brancepeth Wmc and went 1-0 down through a deflected goal but then got into the game creating the most chances but slack marking saw a nicely put shot into the far corner of Bowburns net with the defenders not closing down Bowburn once again come forward and got what they deserved a goal through jack Carr but minutes later New Brancepeth scored again making it 3-1 and not long after to make it 4 nd there could have been more Bowburn were to pay for there missed chances final score 1-4. Pelaw Grange Dogs should of went ahead early in the game with Chris Hawkins given loads of space up front and had two one on ones with the keeper. however after 15 minutes having Chris Hawkins delaying his shot the ball came back out to Chris Gosnell who crossed the ball into the box to find Anthony Nicholson at the far post to nod it home. The game was very scrappy but in the second half Pelaw Grange Dogs went ahead further with a great strike from Chris Hawkins after a cross coming in from Dave Henderson and then after Chris Harvey switched to the centre when Mark Lyall came on he made it 3 nil after a Mark first touch was a cross into the box for him to tap it home past the keeper. Pelaws next game is at home to Chester Red Lion on the 29th.

In the Fourth Division Washington Honest Boy were convincing winners 5-2 away winners at  Quarrington Hill Wmc.

In the Fourth Division  A pretty dour end of season game at Witton Gilbert Wmc and Visitors the Lambton Hounds, exploded into life mid way through the second half when Pity Me deservedly took a 2 goal lead mainly down to errors in the Witton defence. The exception being David Metherell who was outstanding throughout. There seemed no way back for Witton until 5 minutes from time when the Pity Me keeper gave away a needless penalty which was clinicall despatched by Scott Embleton. Witton then threw everything at Pity Me who seemed to panic and substitute James Booth equalised in the last minute to take a share of the points. Quarrington Hill Wmc last game of the season at home to Washington Honest Boy, and all looked well when they took the lead after 11 minutes through Jeff Dean. However 6 minutes of madness saw them concede 3 goals as Honest Boy dominated first half. Second half Q hill eere much better, working hard to get back into the game and it was against the run of play when Washington got thier fourth. Jeff Dean hit a late contender for goal of the season on 86 minutes, but the impressive Honest Boy secured a deserved win with a fifth on 88 mins. Q hill Mom Jeff Dean. Pity Me Lambton Hounds entratained Wittin Gilbert Wmc , game where pity me dominated for large periods of the game. It wasn't until the second half when the deadlock was broken, a cross from the right came in perfectly for Andrew cough to guide in from close range. It didn't take long for pity me to get a second Andrew cough chased down a lost cause and smash it in the bottom corner from a tight angle. Pity me defended well but in to the last 10 mins of the game with no substitutes on the bench tired legs got the best of them and witton were able to get two goals back, the first a penalty and the second a scuffed shot that took a bobble

Tuesday 17^th

In the Premier League Hetton Lyons Cricket Club Travelled to Pelton to play the Buffs.Pelton had an early chance in the 6th minute hitting the outside of the post but it was the Lyons that kept the Pelton goalkeeper and the defence busy. Kyle Davis almost broke the deadlock in the 24th minute with an excellent shot across the keeper but his save matched the shot.The Lyons went a goal up in the 31st minute, Bell playing in the right back role knocked a ball to Hodgson and his pass for Davis to run on to and his shot as sweet as a nut gave the keeper no chance 0-1 and a really good goal. Minutes later Steven Stewart almost scored but the keeper once again denied him. Davis got his second goal a minute before have time Price placed a ball between the defenders Davis well on side raced on to the ball and calmly knocked it passed the advancing keeper 0-2.The Lyons kept the pressure on in the second half and Canavan saw his header from a corner smashed against the cross bar. The Lyons put the game out of reach in the 67th minute Graydon worked hard to keep the ball in play and Hodgson who was always on the prowl thoroughly deserved his goal 0-3. Pelton had a free kick outside the box which the Lyons defence cleared but that was their only threat in the second half. Pelton RAOB 0 -3 Hetton Lyons CC. Langley Park Wmc entertained Sedgefield st Edmunds, It was 0-0 at half time.2 second half goals from Martin Bowes and Ben Smith to win the game for St Edmunds. Brandon Sports were at Newton Aycliffe Wmc, In a Competitive game played in good spirit and well referreed.Brandon took the lead from a long through finished by Paul Eilles, but it was Aycliffe that dominated possession throughout most of the game. Brandon defended superb and although Aycliffe grabbed A sixtieth minute equaliser from Brischuk, on chances the draw was maybe a fair result as either team could have taken the points. Final score 1-1.

In the second Division Ferryhill Saints were 7-0 home winners over Shadforth Plough Inn.

Thursday 19^th

In the Premier Division Hetton Lyons Cricket Club were 5-0 home winners over Newton Aycliffe Wmc goals from Byrne (2) Walton Price and Davis, Kelloe Wmc won 5-1 at Langley Park Steelers.

In the second Division New Durham Wmc entertained a depleted Houghton Chilton Lodge, it was a great performance from New Durham who  hit the lodge for 6,on a wet and windy night New Durham dominated from start to finish goals  from  Brenkley 2 Barrowclough 2 Marley 2.Ferryhill Saints beat visitors Durham Bede Lodge 3-2.

Sunday  22^nd

In the Premier Division Seddgefield st Edmunds  travelled to Hetton Lyons Cricket Club. Hetton Lyons came from a goal down to clinch the Premiership League. The Lyons had more of the share of chances in the first half but failed to take any of them. In the 44th minute Sedgefield took the lead, with the Lyons defence failing to clear the ball and Smith from close range gave the Lyons keeper no chance 0-1.Second half and Davis saw his shot go over the cross bar and the Lyons were struggling to hit the target. Substitute Billy Gruelich-smith was introduced just after the hour mark and made an instant impact, a corner from the left Sedgefield partially cleared it and Smith hit it giving the keeper no chance 1-1. Two minutes later and good work down the left from Steve Capper and he crossed to Kyle Davis and his shot was a peach for the Lyons to go 2-1 up. Hetton needed another goal and in the 75th minute a corner from Craggs and Nicky Kane headed the Ball home 3-1. Washington JFC were the Guests of Houghton Comrades, A good game end to end stuff, with the home team shading the first half, it took a deflected shot from 25yds to give Comrades their 1-0 lead at the break. The 2nd half was a totally different afare with wjfc attacking from the off, they created 7 great chances but ended up scoring a 30 yarder, Comrades ended up 3-1 winners after catching wjfc on the break twice, at the end of the game the Comrades manager said wjfc should have won 5-3, well done to Comrades.Brandon Sports had Kelloe as visitors Today Typical end of season game, both sides with nothing to play for and struggling to field a team. Brandon battled well but Kelloe with the stronger team created more chances and deseveredly won the game.3-0.
               In the Second Division Houghton Chilton Lodge entertained Durham Bede Lodge, after a goalless first half Chilton Lodge took the lead early in the second when Ryan Mather rounded the Bede Lodge keeper to score. After 65 mins Chilton went further ahead when a free kick was squared to Tim Murray to shoot home. Chilton though were made to rue a series of missed chances when after 78 mins Durham pulled one back after a Chilton defender completely miss kicked the ball which went through to a Bede Lodge player who made no mistake from inside the box. Then with 5 mins to go a cross into the box was misjudged by the Chilton goalie who fumbled the ball into the net for Bede Lodge's equaliser. The score remained unchanged despite Chilton having a two on one advantage which they contrived to miss the target in the last minute. The point however ensured they remain in division two for next season. Chester Plough Inn entertained Sherburn Lambton Arms in a cracking end of season promotion battle. Sherburn took the lead after ten minutes when Michael Curl turned a cross into his own goal. The Plough equalised when Mark Atchison took advantage of a goalkeeping error. The home side took the lead early in the second half with a 25 yard wonder strike from Chris Cuthbertson. Sherburn equalised late on following a defensive error. Both sides had great chances to win it in the dying minutes. F/T 2-2.Washington Lambton Village Travelled to New Durham Wmc , Washington came to defend which they did well first half and led at half time 1-0. But second half Durham started to get in behind there defence and were rewarded with 4 second half goals Brinkley grabbing his hatrick and one from Edwards

           In the Third Division A end of season game for Bowburn saw them make changes for the home game against Chester Cricket Club, but go through the motions and a goal for top scorer Jack Carr was the only bright point but credit to Chester cricket club who came with a positive attitude and were rewarded with four goals despite one been a penalty and a deflected goal a well deserved victory for the away team final score 1-4. Framwellgate Moor Wmc club turned up with 10 men to face a strong Dubmire team. Dubmire took an early lead after 5 mins and despite a superb defensive performance from Framwellgate Moor Wmc; Dubmire took a second goal before half time. Fram came out second half all guns blazing with a new partnership of fields and Ormiston bossing the middle of the pitch and a top draw corner from Hessy ked set the leagues real top scorer smithy for his first. Dunmire started to play some nice football passing the ball about and scored another 2 goas before smithy scored his second ov the game. Dunmires passing now had frames 10 men running in quicksand final score 2-7 despite a hard worked game from fram

           In the Fourth Division Langley Park Rams Head kept the league title ambitions alive with a battling performance. Michael Watson scored after 30minutes with a long range free kick and somehow went under the keeper. Langley pressed and some fine goalkeeping kept score at 1-0 second half and Langley could not break down a stubborn tavern defence, tavern then went to draw level threw a penalty, and then Langley kept attacking and finally went in front with Steven Mickle converting a penalty

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FERRYHILL SAINTS 2 v 6 PELTON RAOB
FRIDAY 13^th APRIL 2012

After a strong start by Pelton it was Ferryhill Saints who took the lead after twenty six minutes with a great Gillyat strike from the edge of the box following a poor Pelton clearance. Despite the heroic efforts of Ferryhill keeper Race Pelton stormed into a 4-1 lead. The equalizer came just before half time, great work between Graver and Freeman created the opening for Drummond to tap in. A brace of Kerry goals and great headed goal from Davison put Pelton in the driving seat. However to their credit Ferryhill did not give up and with fifteen minutes remaining gave Pelton a wakeup call when Todd scrambled the ball home to make it 4-2. Pelton responded strongly with a brace of goals from substitute Ritchie to make the final score 6-2. 

Brandon Win Trophy

Tuesday 3^rd April

In the premier Division Chester’s maintained their recent run of form winning 5-3 at home to Newton Aycliffe wmc, Pelton ROAB  won 1-0 against visitors Kelloe Wmc.Hetton Lyons Cricket Club were 2-0 winners at Washington Chevies.In the Fourth Division Washington New Tavern traveled to Witton Gilbert Wmc Both sides sharing the points in a 0-0 draw.

Thursday 5^th April

In the Premier Division Hetton were 4-0 home winners over Pelton Roab,with Two goals from Warren Byrne, and one each for  Nicky Kane and Billy Greulich,In the First Division Sacriston Wmc won 3-1 at Chester Hilda Park, the Cricketers from Sacriston entertained Washington Cross Keys, The Cricketers  defense were excellent throughout ,O’Brien and Mellor were dominant in the air and Frazer controlled the game masterfully while also setting up many attacks with some excellent long range passing out of defence.Youldon on his return to the team put in a dazzling display. He tormented the Washington defense with his running ability and skill on the ball and more often than not picked out the right pass. On 22 minutes Cricketers took the lead when Youldon made a brilliant run into the box and he squared the ball to Collinson who had his shot well saved again but this time the rebound fell to Yates and he finished superbly to make it 1-0.On 30 minutes Yates doubled the lead when James Thornton played the perfect pass into his path and he took one touch before steadying himself and then passing the ball into the bottom left corner. Then just before half time Yates looked to have completed his hat trick when after Grant Boyd had done some sterling work in tackling the Washington defender and then dribbling the ball around the out rushing goalkeeper and shooting the ball towards the empty net, Yates ran from behind him to give the ball a helping touch over the line. The referee gave offside. The Cricketers finally  made the game safe on 64 minutes when Gary Draper brilliantly headed home Michael Frazer’s free kick who looked a bit like a girl in his new orange boots into the top corner. With the game getting stretched later on Marc Bladen was starting to get lots more room down the right hand side and the biggest cheer of the night came on 66 minutes when he got his first goal of the season. Youldon did brilliantly in the left hand corner to rob the Washington right back of the ball and he played a brilliant 60 yard cross field pass into Bladen’s path who ran forward with the ball before cutting on to his left foot where his powerful shot took a wicked deflection of the Washington defender and went into the top left hand corner of the net. Then on 69 minutes after some good play again down the right hand side Gary Draper beat 2 defenders before crossing the ball into the middle where Ward had made a good centre forwards run to earn himself a nice tap in’ Starughair came on for the last 15 minutes or so replacing Thornton who did well again tonight. Youldon spent the last 15 minutes trying to get a goal to cap his performance but he couldn’t get one although he did come close from a free kick which was turned round the post for a corner by the keeper. Final score 5-0 to the Cricketers. In the Third Division Ferryhill Saints were 3-2 home winners over Sherburn Lambton Arms. Houghton Chilton Lodge entertained New Durham Wmc, After missing a host of chances throughout Houghton Chilton Lodge were made to pay by high fliers New Durham WMC who scored with two set piece headers in the 20th and 65th minutes, and with Chilton pressing they were caught on the break with five minutes to go when New Durham completed the scoring for a 3-0 win.

Friday 6^th April 10

Bishop Auckland Heart Foundation Cup Final. Today’s crowd was in excess of 200 and the total raised for Heart Foundation Charity this year will be in excess of £1000, as two Premier League sides were ready to do battle, Sedgefield St Edmunds and Brandon Sports were both ready for the 12 o’clock kick off. Full Time Brandon 2-1 St Eds (aet) Brandon deserved the win as they created more and were guilty of missing some easy chances.St Eds came close within the last 5mins but too little too late, decent game.

Sunday 8^th April

The Big Game in the Premier Division was the Washington Derby between the Home side Washington JFC and visitors Washington Chevies, The first half was a 50/50 affair with no goals to shout about a fair result at H/T. WJFC had most of the play at the start of the 2nd half and this paid dividends when from a free kick Stephenson’s ball beat everyone allowing "Joni The Ghost Hewitt" to pop up at the far post and slam the ball into the net off the underside of the bar 1-0 JFC, after that Chevy’s got back into the game and with 3 mins to go were awarded a penalty for handball, Morrell stepped up to the plate and scored sending Smith the wrong way F/T 1-1 a fair result.Kelloe Wmc entertained the inform Chester’s. It was Kelloe who took the lead after 21 seconds when Barton ran onto his own through ball to calmly slot home. Chester’s equalized when the striker finished well. Kelloe hit the post through jury and the bar through Turton but it was all square at half time. Chester’s went 4-1 up, then Soppitt pulled a goal back with a delightful lob but Chester’s made the game safe with a late penalty, final score 5-2 to chesters.2nd half goals from Andrew Beamson and Mark Ferguson gave St Edmunds a well deserved 2-2 draw. With visitors Hetton Lyons Cricket Club, Danny Moore and Chris Bell scoring Hettons Goals.

In the First Division Sedgefield NET Park were visitors to Sacriston Wmc, Sacriston With 9 missing, and no goalkeeper it was always going to be difficult, it was Net park who took a deserved lead on 35mins through Martin Musgrave's clinical finish, Martin Broom making it 2-0 after a long kick from Sedgwick bounced over the Sacriston defender leaving Martin to header over a hesitant goalkeeper and into the empty net, H/T. On 50mins the prolific Renwick pulled a goal back after some sloppy defending by NET Park 1-2. Martin Lower made it 1-3 from a header. Again Renwick pulled one back 2-3 but within a minute NET Park scored after a great move was finished by Chris Barber 2-4 then Martin Lower added his second 2-5. With 20mins left Dan Pilling finished well to make it 2-6. NET Park made two changes and took their foot off the gas a little allowing Sacriston to score 2 lates goals to make the scoreline a little respectable. A fully deserved 3pts for NET Park. Sam Renwick scoring 4 goals for Sacriston, Coxhoe wmc were 7-0 home winners over Burnside Wmc, Sacriston Cricket Club were 5-1 winners at Bottom club Chester Hilda Park and Giles gate Moor Queens Head and visitors Chilton Wmc shared the points in a 0-0 draw.

In the second Division Chilton Lodge traveled to Ushaw Moor to play the Cricket Club,After a goalless first half Shaun Smith opened the scoring for 'Chilton' with a pass come shot after 60 mins, then five minutes later Iain McPherson scored from close range. McPherson then finished off the goal of the game which involved beautiful link up play between Keiron Hughes and Craig Johnston before being volleyed home. Ushaw Moor CC battled back to hit the post after 80 mins but to no avail for 'Chilton' to register a 3-0 victory, New Durham wmc traveled to Shadforth Plough Inn, New Durham led 1-0 at half time through a Brenkley goal. second half Durham scored a further 2 goals from parker, and Andrew Chester, Chester Plough Inn made the trip to Bede Lodge and returned with all 3 points. The Plough took a 4 goal lead thanks to Dean Cooper, Ben Lloyd, Nathan Baddams and Gary McIlduff. Bede Lodge pulled 2 goals back but Gavin Prudhoe sealed the win F/T 2-5.

In the Third Division Lumley Fc lost 4-0 at Bowburn Fc, Dubmire Wmc were 3-2 home winners over West Rainton Fc and New Brancepeth won 5-2 at the Bird Inn.

In the Fourth Division Witton Gilbert Wmc traveled to Pity Me it was not a very exciting game at all, both teams were poor and neither team really looked like scoring. The first goal and third goal came from a free kick and the second was the result of a mistake by the pity me goalkeeper as he dropped the ball at the strikers feet. All 3 goals came in the first 20 minutes following that the game seemed to phase out. Burnmoor Jnrs and visitors the Honest Boy shared the points in a 3-3 draw. Washington Jays and The Rams Head also shared the points in a 3-3 draw. Kelloe Davy Lamp drew 2-2 at Ferryhill Dynamo’s.

Heart Foundation Cup Final

Full Time
Brandon 2-1 Sedgefield St Eds (aet)

Brandon deserved the win as they created more and were quilty of missing some easy chances.
St Eds came close within the last 5mins but too little too late, decent game.Thanks to all referees who officiated in games this season.Todays crowd was in excess of 200 and the total raised for Heart Foundation Charity this year will be in excess of £1000.

April Fools Day 1st April

In the Premier Division Chester le Street Chester’s entertained Hetton Lyons Cricket Club, It was Michael Canavan who opened the scoring for the Lyons in the 18th minute with a header at the far post from a corner, Chester equalized in the 25th minute with a well taken goal and 2 minutes before half time Warren Byrne was brought down in the penalty area and Craig Price duly slotted the ball home 1-2. Hetton extended their lead in the 63rd minute with a great strike from Kyle Davis and 3 minutes later Davis beat two defenders and Chris Bell finished it off with the goalkeeper having no chance 1-4. Chester kept didn't drop their heads and made it 2-4 with two minutes to go. Langley Park Steelers travelled to Kelloe Wmc a spirited Steelers side the bare 11 defended well throughout the 1st half but kelloe wasted chances through Turton, Johnson and Graham. After the break, the introduction of Barton gave kelloe the edge. Barton was involved when Turton broke the deadlock with a neat close range finish. Man of the match Turton doubled the lead with a 30 yard screamer into the top corner. With the Steelers struggling, Soppitt and Barton with 2 wrapped the game up to make it 5-0 to kelloe. With Washington Chevies pitch unavailable the Game against Sedgefield st Edmunds was switched to Sedgefield,. 2 first half goals from Parsons and Hilder and a Penalty for Chevies in between resulted in a 2-1 win for St Eds WJFC travelled to Newton Aycliffe for their latest Premier Lgue encounter.Newton Aycliffe proved to be the stronger team and made attack after attack throughout the 1st half, jfc held out to keep the score level at H/T 0-0. The same pattern emerged in the 2nd half until jfc broke through the Aycliffe defence in a rare attacking move and Middlemiss fired home to give the visitors a 1-0 lead in the 65 min. The home team made attack after attack and this finally paid off when a direct move through the middle saw their forward get a touch which beat the approaching jfc keeper. The game was won with 7 mins. remaining when a long ball was headed on for Aycliffe`s centre forward to score at the far post with a backward header. F/T 2-1 N-Aycliffe

Sacriston Cricket Club Travelled to Coxhoe Wmc in the First Division on a rock hard pitch ,. Michael Mellor gave away a free kick on 7 minutes. From that free kick the ball was sent over to the far post where Mellor was and for the entire world the ball looked like it was going out of play but the Coxhoe number 10 got round the back and diverted the ball back across the goal and into the far corner to make it 1-0. Then on 26 minutes the Cricketers levelled the scores when Michael Frazer’s free kick was flicked on in the box by O’Brien and Yates brought the ball under control and placed a right footed shot into the bottom corner of the net to make it 1-1.The rest of the first half was even with Sacriston having lots of territory and causing problems in the Coxhoe defence with long throws from Draper and corners from James Thornton but we just couldn’t get the final touch to send the ball goal wards. Coxhoe then wasted the best chance of the game just before half time when their forward got through one on one with our keeper having been clearly yards off side and Marc Bladen did brilliantly to get back close enough to him to force him into shooting over the bar.
Half time came and went and Crickters  started the 2nd half much the stronger team  forcing  many corners from which they  had one cleared off the line and O’Brien had a great chance at the back post from Draper’s corner but put his header wide. Then on 72 minutes Coxhoe took the lead when a cross to our back post reached one of their players who was unmarked and he bundled in a finish, where a combination of Hall and Marc Bladen look to have kept the ball from crossing the line, but the referee decided from his position from 25 yards away that he could clearly give a goal .Final score 2-1 to Coxhoe. In a Typical Washington derby the Cross Keys playing the Victoria,  with a nervy start but then settled down to a scrappy affair, keys tried to play football but never looked like scoring and the vic resulted in long balls which the keys never really dealt with. Two injuries to a weak turn out by the keys resulted in a game of two different styles of football which worked in the Vics favour and they came away with a hard worked 2-0 win. Burnside Wmc Travelled to Chilton Wmc, Chilton scored in the first half to lead 1 - 0. In the second half Burnside came back into the game and grabbed an equaliser, Sacriston wmc  had goalkeeper problems  for the home game against Gilesgate Moor Queens Head ,with the 1st choice keeper away on holiday, the 2nd choice injured in the warm up, so centre half, Michael Finch went in goal. Gilesgate took full advantage of this in the first half, scoring 3. The first was a good finish from the edge of the 18 yard box, the 2nd came when Asquith slid in and cleared the ball but was adjudged to have committed a foul resulting in a penalty, and this was converted. The 3rd was some good play resulting in a headed goal from 6 yards. Sacriston got 1 back just before half time when Wearmouth was brought down in the box and converted the penalty.
The 2nd half was totally different, Sacriston dominated for long periods, they hit the bar and post, scored another from a corner when Aaron White headed home. Sacriston's Tom Winter thought he had scored the equalizer only for the ref to blow for offside. Gilesgate were reduced to long balls over the top to try and relieve some pressure, but they defended well and the goalkeeper was their Man Of The Match.Final Score 2-3

In the Second Division Chester Plough Inn made the short trip to play Ouston. Chester Plough dominated the first half and created a number of chances but couldn’t break the deadlock. Shortly before half time and against the run of play Ouston took the lead. In the second half Ouston were a lot stronger and doubled their lead through Keith Lines. Kris Lawton added a third midway through the second half. New Durham WMC entertained East Rainton Fc in a scrappy first half all square 0-0. Second half Durham scored 4 second half goals to kill off a good east rainton side, 2 from Allen.... 1 each from Bowes and Brinkley. Houghton V Chilton Lodge and Sherburn Lambton Arms shared the Points in a 2-2 draw. Sherburn took the lead after 30 mins after a mistake by 'Chilton' keeper Defty to go 1-0 up. Chilton hit back in the second half and goals by the McPhersons Ian and Andy put them into a 2-1 lead. More chances for Chilton followed but they were unable to add to their tally and were punished five minutes from time when they were unable to clear their lines and the ball fell to Sherburns Martin to shoot home to equalise

In division 3 an entertaining Chester le Street derby saw the Cricket Club come out on top against the Red Lion. The Red Lion edged the first half and took the lead from the penalty spot after a handball. The Cricket Club started the second half the better team but found themselves 2-0 down when a misplaced pass found the Red Lion striker who finished well. This did not deter the CC however, who soon found themselves back in the game, Andrew Willcock pulling a goal back. From this point the Cricket Club dominated the game and got an equaliser via a cool finish from Lee Cuthbertson. A deserved winner followed soon as Willcock grabbed his second goal of the game.Bowburn Fc travelled to Framwellgate Moor Wmc, It was  Bowburn kept the pressure on the two teams above them with a 5-2 away win at framwellgate moor in a equal first half Bowburn took over in the second and should have scored more, goals from Robbie Hurton 2 own goal substitute Ray Pirt and m.o.m. Jack Carr. Pelw Grange Dogs entertained New Brancepeth Wmc ,Both teams were up for this game and it was a shame the pitch was so hard but thats football. Pelaw went ahead with a penalty in the first 3 minutes taken by Neil worley but New Brancepeth pulled one back more or less straight away and then went 2-1 ahead all within the fiorst 7 minutes. After half time Pelaw Grange Dogs FC first drew level and then went ahead through goals from Chris Harvey, Chris Hawkins and Marc wood to make 4-2 and then in the last 5 minutes New Brancepeth fc were awarded a penalty that made it 4-3

In the Fourth Division Langley park Rams Head took a 1-0 lead going in to half time against visitors Ferryhill Dynamoes,.Only for ferryhill to equalize before the rams head extended there lead by two goals making it 3-1 only for the Dynamos to give a late rally to draw level with only a few minutes left. The pick of the goals was a stunning volley by young Callum Walton Ferryhill's hero.Quarrington Hill Wmc travelled to Burnmoor Jnrs Another cracking game between these two competitive sides. Burnmoor were excellent from the off and created a host of chances in the first 20 minutes only to be denied by a string of fine saves by young keeper Jordan Nicholson. In the 21st min Dan Beaney scored after being put through by Luke Jury. Second half was more even and end to end. Burnmoor getting a goal worked from a throw in and Q Hill grabbing 2 in 2 mins. The first, a surging run from left back by Lee Carter finishing with a cross / shot, and then Dan Beaney getting his second of the game. Goal of the game was Q Hills 4th, Jeff Dean finishing a fine move, before Burnmoor made it 2-4. Q hill MOM was Jordan Nicholson A well fought battle by two hard working teams on this fine spring morning Washington Jays were at High Shincliffe, both teams plucked away in the first half with possession and chances fairly even. Jays started 2nd half stronger and clinched a goal through a goal-mouth scramble that could easily have been given a penalty but Seed's handball was over the line saving him a red card but couldn't stop the goal. High Shincliffe battled back and equalised