The wet weather once again took its toll on the midweek fixtures in the Under 18 Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire League with two of the five scheduled games falling victim to waterlogged pitches. Well done to Radstock Town on staging their game on grass despite the heavy rain at the beginning of the week but unfortunately for them their efforts were not rewarded with a win as they fell to a 2-0 defeat to league leaders Kintbury Rangers. Goals from Ben Luckett and a fifth goal of the season from Jake Huntley secured the points for the visitors on Thursday night, the win sending them eight points clear at the top of the table. Kintbury have now won eight of their nine fixtures and reach the half-way stage with their fixtures looking like the team the others will need to finish ahead of if they are to claim the Under 18 Division title. Kintbury’s scheduled game for next week against Bishops Cannings has been pushed back to the following Monday due to floodlight maintenance taking place this coming week giving the chasing pack the chance to narrow the gap at the top this coming Thursday. Radstock Town are scheduled to be away at Bradford Town.

Royal Wootton Bassett Town are looking the most likely challenger to Kintbury and they were involved in the top match of the week when they met Bishops Cannings at Green Lane on Friday night. Bishops Cannings are substantially made up of last season’s championship winning Devizes Town side, and it had been Royal Wootton Bassett Town and Devizes who had battled it out for the title last season and were both expected to do well again this campaign. Mainly due to County Cup games Bishops Cannings are slightly behind with their fixtures but with a 3G pitch are not going to suffer postponements when the wet weather kicks in and on Friday night they were looking to make up ground on the top three. However, things did not go to plan as two goals from Joseph Beavis put visitors Royal Wootton Bassett Town in the driving seat and although Bishops Cannings were able to pull one back through Caleb Hollow there was to be no equaliser as Royal Wootton Bassett Town secured a 2-1 win to maintain their unbeaten start to the season. They closed the gap at the top to Kintbury to seven points with two games in hand, moving above Calne Town into second spot in the table. Next up for Royal Wootton Bassett Town is a home fixture this coming Thursday against AFC Aldermaston.

The other game played this week was also on a 3G pitch at Kingsdown School. After starting the season with just one point from their opening six games things are certainly looking up for Kingsdown Lions. They went into Tuesday night’s home game against AFC Aldermaston looking to make it three games unbeaten and it was mission accomplished following a 4-1 win. Star of the show for Kingsdown was Nicholas Wilkes who scored all four goals for the Lions, Finnley Dove with the reply for AFC Aldermaston. The win saw Kingsdown climb two places in the table to seventh spot and they will look to continue that unbeaten run when they travel to Melksham Town on Thursday night. The final game scheduled for the coming week sees Calne Town travel to Warminster Town.

League Table

Leading Scorers

Results and Next Week's Fixtures

20 November 2022