Last Thursday Colby Cain’s Melksham Town wrapped up what had been a successful season for the side with a 3-1 win at New College thanks to goals from Isaac Wain, Olly Clarke and Aron Byfield. The win lifted Melksham up into second spot at the end of their fixtures but they could still slip to fifth spot depending how results involving the other sides pan out. Well done to Melksham on becoming the first team to complete their fixtures in what has been a difficult season for everyone. For New College that was now five straight defeats, Rajib Malla getting their goal, his third of the season.

The same night as Melksham were winning at New College, FC Chippenham out muscled visitors Radstock Town to keep their title aspirations on track, Zachary Baskerville, Ben Patey and Oliver Crosby-Clarke scoring in a 3-0 win. The scheduled game at Pewsey between Pewsey Vale and Chippenham was postponed due to the Chippenham Town mini-bus breaking down and rescheduled for the following Thursday.

For various reasons, unfortunately only two of the five scheduled game this week took place in the Under 18 Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League. Pewsey Vale were unable to raise a side on Monday night for their fixture with FC Chippenham due to school related commitments and on Thursday night Chippenham Town were unable to field a side due to other games their Academy were involved in and their scheduled game with Pewsey was postponed for the second week running. Both games have been re-scheduled already.

On Monday night Radstock Town maintained their unbeaten home record with a narrow 2-1 win over visitors New College, an identical result to that between the two sides the previous week. On target for Radstock were George Rowe with his second goal of the season and Ake Wiberg who notched his first of the campaign, New College’s leading scorer Sam Morse replying for the visitors with his sixth of the season. Unfortunately, Radstock's big game scheduled for Thursday night against top of the table Shrivenham at Radstock had to be postponed due to a waterlogged pitch and has now been re-scheduled for Monday 31^st May.

With Shrivenham not in action, FC Chippenham had the chance to close the gap to the leaders and did not disappoint their supporters with a 3-1 win over a Royal Wootton Bassett side who were forced to field a number of younger players due to players being unavailable. Royal Wootton Bassett manager Nick Warren was pleased with how his side performed in the circumstances, but FC Chippenham proved too strong on the night. Amongst the FC Chippenham scorers was Oliver Crosby-Clarke who had been the top scorer last season for opponents Royal Wootton Bassett, Zach Bruce and Josh Gale with the other Chippenham goals. Tomas Warren replied for the visitors. The win saw FC Chippenham stay in fourth place in the table but move onto nineteen points from their ten games played. They have three games in hand on Shrivenham, who are currently eight points ahead. Next week FC Chippenham are home to New College on Monday before a trip to Radstock Town on Thursday where they will need to become the first team to beat Radstock on their own turf to maintain their title challenge. With Radstock also still to play Shrivenham they could have a big say in the final destination of the U18 league title.

20 May  2021