Another busy week for the teams in the Under 18 Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League with teams involved in County Cup competitions as well as league fixtures with plenty of goals across all the games.

In the Wiltshire County Youth Cup FC Chippenham, Calne Town and Bristol Manor Farm are all through to the 3^rd Round. FC Chippenham were 3-2 winners over Lydiard Millicent on Sunday thanks to two goals from Harry Brain and one from Jack Burchell. On the same day Bristol Manor Farm were comfortable 5-0 winners over Bemerton Heath Harlequins, two goals for Ewan House and further strikes from Regan Lashenko, Alfie Partridge and Daniel Coles in this one. Calne Town were given a walkover into Round 3 with scheduled opponents Ludgershall Sports conceding the tie. In that 3^rd Round, both FC Chippenham and Bristol Manor Farm will be home to teams from Swindon Supermarine, Calne Town are away to Staverton Rangers Youth.  

In the newly established Somerset Youth Cup, Radstock Town had a comfortable passage into the next round on Thursday night, hitting seven unanswered goals past Fry Club. On target for Radstock were Theo King and Jakob Musaeus, who both scored twice, Jayden Purnell, Lex Southall and Archie Bullock.

Four games were played in the league, two on Thursday night and two on Friday night. On Thursday last season’s top two sides, Kintbury Rangers and Royal Wootton Bassett Town met at the Gerard Buxton Sports Ground. Kintbury had much the better of things in the first half, hitting the crossbar on three occasions but there were to be no goals in that first half. Royal Wootton Bassett Town had grown into the game as the half progressed, but Kintbury had created numerous decent chances but had been unable to put one away. It was a similar story at the start of the second half, but Kintbury eventually did find that elusive goal, Royal Wootton Bassett Town gave the ball away in midfield, and the ball found its way to Joseph Sheridan who fired in for 1-0 to the visitors. Kintbury doubled their lead when a ball over the top found its way to Royal Wootton Bassett Town keeper Leyton Stepp, but his attempted clearance struck Sheridan and rebounded in front of him giving him an open goal and the striker made no mistake to put his side two goals in front. Kintbury continued to press for further goals but some wayward finishing and a couple of good saves from Stepp meant that there was to be no further scoring as Kintbury ran out 2-0 winners on the night to become one of four teams on six points in joint third spot. Your Sport Swindon were there with their camera and subscribers can view the match highlights by clicking on the link below or from the link on the Your Sport Swindon page of the league website.

The other game on Thursday was at the Oakfield Stadium and it saw a high scoring game between Melksham Town and Bradford Town, the two sides scoring nine goals between them with Melksham recording their first win of the season in a 6-3 victory. Jenson Wakefield hit a hat-trick for the home side with the other Melksham goals coming through Charlie Walder, Caiden Rose and substitute Aimar Petite Harnzic, Harry Douchet, Rory Unwin and an own goal in reply for visitors Bradford Town.

There was another entertaining high scoring game on Friday night at Swindon Academy where Wims 11 met FC Chippenham with the two sides sharing 12 goals, with Wims eventually winning 7-5. Star of the show was Billy Wimble who scored four of the Wims goals, doubling his total for the season as he took over at the top of the division’s goal scoring chart. Teammate Drew McIntosh bagged a brace, with Josh Briggs getting the other Wims 11 goal. On target for FC Chippenham were Edward Oatley with a hat-trick, Oliver Young and a second of the season from Harry Brain.

The final game on Friday night saw two sides who started the evening unbeaten, Kingsdown and Calne Town. Calne were looking to build on last week’s impressive win over Kintbury Rangers whilst Kingsdown had started the season with a victory over Wims 11 and had drawn with FC Chippenham in their opening two fixtures. Kingsdown took an early lead through Tyler Preddy who was making his return following a long period out with an injury. It remained nip and tuck throughout the remainder of the match with Calne unable to find an equaliser and Kingsdown unable to find a second and in the end that early goal was all that separated the sides at the end of 90 minutes. The win for Kingsdown saw them move second in the table behind Bristol Manor Farm and maintain their unbeaten start to the season.

8 October 2023