After failing to win in their opening two games of the season Calne Town Under 18s have done nothing but win ever since. Those opening two games were against the other two sides currently in the top three, Kintbury Rangers and Royal Wootton Bassett. An opening game draw with Royal Wootton Bassett was followed by a narrow 2-1 to Kintbury. Since that defeat Calne Town have now won five games on the spin to sit in second place in the table. Their latest success came on Thursday night against Bradford Town with Calne inflicting the main damage on their visitors in the opening forty-five minutes.  An early goal from Jacob Sealy set them on their way and Jack Fry doubled their lead with less than 20 minutes gone. Two goals in a five-minute spell around the half hour mark from Joseph Redman and Ryan Flynn put Calne 4-0 up and in command. Furthermore, if it wasn’t for the heroics of Joe Beaverstock in the Bradford Town goal there could have been even more goals in that opening half, but the teams turned round with Calne leading by those four goals to nil.  Not for the first time this season Bradford Town came out for the second half and put in a much better second half showing. Whilst Calne added a fifth through Redman with his second of the game, Bradford also registered two goals of their own. Iwan Legg fired in from distance for his fourth goal of the season and Luke Masero finished off a good move, rounding the Calne keeper for the second Bradford goal as it finished 5-2 to the home side. The win saw Calne move above Royal Wootton Bassett Town into second place, two points behind Kintbury.

Kintbury Rangers had played their game this week on Monday night and had a comfortable evening hitting eight unanswered goals against Warminster Town. It is the second heavy defeat Warminster have suffered on their travels this season, but their cause was not helped by having a player sent-off. James Tomlinson led the way for Kintbury scoring half his team’s goals, Joseph Sheridan bagged a brace, both Tomlinson and Sheridan taking their goal tally for the season to six in the process, with the other two coming through first goals of the season from Ben Luckett and Tane Newton-Clark. Like Calne that is now five straight league wins for Kintbury ahead of this weekend’s Berks & Bucks County Youth Cup game against FAB U17 Reds.

Also in action on Monday night were AFC Aldermaston and Bishops Cannings, two sides who were in need of a win after some indifferent results of late.  It was Bishops Cannings who finally returned to winning ways, two goals from Danny Bowyer and one apiece for Caleb Hollow, Harvey Swain and leading scorer Jack Smith in a 5-2 win, Thomas Henry and Daniel Santos-Keskin replaying for Aldermaston. The win saw Bishops Cannings move above both Melksham Town and Radstock Town into fourth place with games in hand over all of the top three.

On Tuesday night Kingsdown Lions finally picked up their first league win of the season with a hard fought 1-0 win over Melksham Town on the 3G at Kingsdown School. The only goal of the game came courtesy of Josh Atwell and saw Kingsdown move off the bottom of the table to be replaced by Aldermaston. Well done to Kingsdown on picking up the win which now means every side in the division has won this season and the Swindon based side will now look to build on the victory with upcoming games against Aldermaston and the team just above them in the table, Bradford Town.

The scheduled game between Radstock Town and Royal Wootton Bassett Town was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

Bishops Cannings were back in action on Friday night playing their Third-Round tie in the Wiltshire FA Youth Cup against Melksham Town Hurricanes. A couple of early scares saw them twice trail to their opponents but equalising goals first from Jack Farion and then Jack Smith saw them pull back twice. Once they got their noses in front thanks to a second goal from Jack Farion there was only going to be one winner. Leading scorer Jack Smith got his second of the game to make it 4-2 before further goals from Caleb Hollow, Alexander Ansell and Lleyton Edwards extended Cannings lead. The night’s scoring was rounded off by Farion who scored his third of the game to complete his hat-trick and make the final score 8-2 to Bishops Cannings who safely progress through to the last eight.

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Results and Next Week's Fixtures

4 November 2022