There are new leaders of the Under 18 Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League at the end of this week’s games with Kintbury Rangers taking over at the top of the table following a hard-fought 3-2 home win over Bradford Town on Monday night. A couple of individual errors in defence by the visitors saw Kintbury take a 2-0 lead, but Bradford got themselves back in the game before half-time. Good build up play between Benjamin Knudson and Freddie Ellis saw Ellis square the ball to Finn Pilkington who fired in for his second goal in consecutive games for Bradford Town to make it 2-1 at the break. It remained a tight tense affair in the second half, but Kintbury restored their two goal advantage with a third goal and, despite Bradford Town pulling one back late on in the game through Liam Barnett, Kintbury held on for all three points and leadership of the division. On target for Kintbury were James Tomlinson, Leo Greenwood and a third of the season for Jake Huntley.

Bishops Cannings had dropped their first points of the season away at Warminster Town last week and were again on the road this week making the short journey to Calne Town. Calne came into the game on the back of two impressive performances which had seen them defeat both Radstock Town and Kingsdown Lions and they made it three straight wins, inflicting a first defeat of the season on Bishops Cannings. The game was decided by a solitary goal from full back Jack Fry, scored a minute before the half time break. The win lifted Calne up into third place in the table, five points behind leaders Kintbury but with a game in hand.

At the Oakfield Stadium where Melksham Town hosted AFC Aldermaston the home side picked up their third win of the season in a match that saw the two sides produce eight goals in an entertaining encounter. Melksham took the game to AFC Aldermaston right from the off and found themselves 3-0 up within the first 25 minutes, the third coming from the penalty spot. However, a defensive slip up just before half time allowed Zachary Hayton to pull one back for the visitors with his second goal of the season. That goal seemed to spark AFC Aldermaston into life, and they came out for the second half and took the game to the home side, hitting the bar before being awarded a penalty of their own, all within five minutes of the restart.  The penalty kick was duly put away by Daniel Santos-Keskin to make it 3-2. Melksham restored their two-goal cushion 20 minutes from the end but a mistimed tackle in the box on Santos-Keskin 15 minutes from time, which saw the Melksham defender dismissed, gave Aldermaston the chance to get back into the game. Dantos-Keskin, having won the penalty, duly put the spot kick away to give the visitors hope that they could still get something out of the game. Aldermaston then pushed forward in search of an equaliser, hitting the bar for a second time in the game. However, despite putting the home side under immense pressure, the game was ultimately put beyond them following a Melksham break which saw a free kick awarded on the edge of the box which was fired in to make the final score 5-3 to the home side. Reuben Rule and Kegan Smart both scored twice for the home side, with Owen Allison getting the other Melksham goal. The win saw Melksham climb above Bishops Cannings in the table.

There were also plenty of goals at Warminster where the home side Warminster Town were looking to pick up their first win of the season after drawing their previous three games, including matches against a couple of the expected title challengers, Bishops Cannings and Royal Wootton Bassett Town. Their visitors on Thursday night were Kingsdown Lions who were also looking for their first win of the season. It started well for the Lions who went in front within the first ten minutes through Zack Vaughan. Warminster got themselves back on level terms on 22 minutes thanks to a headed goal from Toby Worts. The same player then put the home side ahead for the first time in the game just after the half hour mark, following up to tap in after the Kingsdown Lions keeper had saved an initial shot. It remained 2-1 at half time. Warminster then extended their lead within three minutes of the restart, Braden Humphreys, who had scored both goals against Bishops Cannings the previous week, finishing off an excellent move from the home side. Warminster made sure of the points five minutes from the end, Spencer Dymond-Hall scoring from the penalty spot to make the final score 4-1 to Warminster and that first win of the season. The win saw Warminster move up into seventh spot in the table.

The final scheduled game between Royal Wootton Bassett Town and Radstock Town was postponed by Radstock due to school commitments.

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21 October 2022