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Wiltshire Senior League
 Melksham Into 2nd Cup Final
With Late Winner

  Kris Beasley who scored all four goals for Melksham Town in their cup semi final including a last minute winner

This week saw the outstanding League Cup semi-final take place. The game had been postponed the previous week due to the weather and with the pitch at Bradford Town once again waterlogged on the scheduled date of the rearranged game the fixture was switched to Melksham Town’s ground. It produced an entertaining seven goal thriller with the two sides level at 3-3 going into the last minute where Kris Beasley, who had already scored all three of Melksham’s earlier goals, scored a winner in the dying seconds to see Melksham through to the final courtesy of a 4-3 win.  On target for Bradford Town were David Percival, who bagged a brace, and Mark Robinson. Melksham Town will now meet Redhouse in the final which will be staged at Melksham, the two sides having requested that the game be played at this prestigious venue rather than on one of the 3G venues. The game is scheduled for Friday 21st April with a 7.30pm kick off.

There was just the one game played in the Mid Wiltshire Division this week and it involved two of the sides in the title race, Corsham Town and Westbury United. With Corsham first team facing a backlog of league fixtures following their FA Vase exploits the game was switched to Green Lane to ensure it went ahead. It was a tight affair settled by a solitary goal for Corsham scored by their top scorer Steve Tweddle with his 18th of the campaign. The 1-0 win saw Corsham move into third spot in the table level on points with second placed Devizes Town and just a point behind leaders Melksham Town. The defeat for Westbury probably ends their title ambitions as they remain nine points adrift of the leaders with five games to play but, with four of those five games against the four sides above them in the table, they are still likely to have a big say in the ultimate destination of the title.

There were three games in the North Wiltshire Division with two of the top three sides in action. At Merton Fields, Royal Wootton Bassett Town were up against Stratton Juniors Orange looking to close the gap to the top two Cricklade Town and Redhouse. Whilst Royal Wootton Bassett Town have games in hand, they knew that they needed to record a victory with the top two in such good form and would have been disappointed that they only came away with a point following a 1-1 draw, Jon Reeves scoring for Stratton and Jeremy Newton with the Royal Wootton Bassett Town goal. The point for Royal Wootton Bassett left them ten points behind leaders Cricklade with now just the two games in hand.

The same night Swindon Old Boys and Blunsdon were in action at New College and a solitary goal from Old Boy’s Paul Stonehouse was all that separated the two sides. That is now ten for the season for Stonehouse whose side consolidated their fifth place position in the table with five games to go. 

The following night Redhouse were looking to close in on the leaders Cricklade when they met Swindon Rovers at the Gerard Buxton Sports Ground. It was a cagey affair in the rain again settled by a solitary goal, Redhouse’s David Rendle getting that all important goal to keep his sides title challenge on track. The win saw Redhouse move to within six points of the leaders with a game in hand with the two sides still to play each other twice before the season end. 

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8 April 2023
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