West Riding FA Sunday Trophy: Keighley Athletic 7 Marsh United 4 - Athletic progressed to the last 16 of the County Trophy following an entertaining contest with Marsh Utd of Huddersfield.
Things started well for the home side as Rob Wall skilfully curled home the opener. Athletic defender Tom Whitwham was then sent off for a professional foul and despite Athletic appeals that the offence was outside the box, Marsh equalised from the resulting penalty. The 10-men of Athletic responded admirably as Mick Goodwin fed in his brother Paul to regain the lead and Goodwin notched his second moments later with a superb individual goal.
Marsh pulled one back early in the second-half but Jamie Caulfield restored the two-goal lead before the visitors rallied to bring things level at 4-4. Athletic could well have folded but late goals from the excellent Gareth Peace, Caulfield again and Steve Kernan sealed victory for the Keighley side.
n AC Victoria beat Commercial Esholt 2-1 to continue their progress in the competition, but no further details are available.
Premier Division
New Variety Club 7
Bingley Harvester 4
Variety took control after an even opening period, scoring four goals, and were 4-1 ahead at half time. In the second half Variety scored a further three goals and allowed their opponents to score three.
Liam Jeffries scored a hat-trick for Variety which made his journey from Morcambe worthwhile. John Baker also scored three for the Variety boys.
Stanbury Park Rangers 1
Keighley Utd 0
There was little to choose between to evenly matched teams in the full 90 minutes. Robert andrews scored the only goal of the match for Stanbury in the 20th minute.
Keighley United pressed hard in the second half, but Stanbury's defence held firm.
Division One
Keighley Royal 3
Keighley Utd Youth 3
Six goals were shared, and honours even in a thrilling game.
United opened the scoring when they were awarded a penalty. Royal replied through Peter Dowthwaite and Royal's Dominic Creed out-paced United's defenders to ad his side's second goal to give Royal a 2-1 lead a half time.
The second period saw United scored twice and Royal added a superb late goal, again from Dominic Creed, as they secured a share of the points.
Cavendish Hotel 2
Long Lee Druids 4
Druids were slow to get out of the starting blocks after the festive break and were 2-0 down at half time. However, they turned the game round with an excellent second half performance and goals from Joe Flaherty, Dave Bennett and Paul Wilkinson.
Albert Hotel 2
George (Cullingworth) 4
The Albert Hotel dominated the first 15 minutes of the game as the visitors struggled to come to terms with a the pace after a long period without a game. The home outfit opened the scoring in the 10th minute, but slowly George began to get their act together and periods of good passing football started to emerge.
Their efforts were rewarded when Neil Roberts headed home from a corner and the Cullingworth side took the lead just before the break when Philip Poole hit the back of the net.
For the first 25 minutes of the second period Albert had the better of the exchanges and levelled the scores before George were reduced to 10 men. Despite being a player short they started to take control and Kevin Wood headed in a corner.
With time running out Jonathan Clews scored the best goal of the match from 20-yards out. Clewes had an excellent game, but was just pipped for the man of the match award by Gareth Ritson. Albert's scorers were Billy Horton and Richard Broadley, their man of the match was Richard Duxbury.
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