Devizes Town's John Stockman tackles Durrington's Craig Lewis who was to score the only goal of the game for Durrington in the big match in the Mid Wiltshire Division (picture courtesy of David Giles)

North Wiltshire Division

There were just the three games played in the North Wiltshire Veterans’ Division of the Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League last week but one of three which could be pivotal in the destination of this season’s league title. That game was between Nationwide and Cricklade Town at New College. Cricklade won the league in both the previous two seasons and went into the game against Nationwide unbeaten in the league this season and looking favourites to defend their title and record a treble of title wins. Nationwide meanwhile are once again through to the League Cup Final for the second season running but having lost two games already in the league ahead of Tuesday’s encounter, realistically probably needed to beat Cricklade Town twice if they were going to deny them a treble of title wins. It was to be Cricklade’s night through as two goals from TJ Bohane and one from Adam Smith saw Cricklade maintain that unbeaten record with a 3-0 win to go top of the table and open up a six-point gap over their beaten opponents with a game in hand. Nationwide have just three games to play, including the return match against Cricklade, and will need to win them all and hope Cricklade drop points elsewhere if they are to deny Cricklade the title. The two goals for Bohane took his tally for the season to 34 whilst strike partner Smith moved onto 18 for the season.

Penhill United  climbed up to fourth place in the table with a 4-2 win over Swindon Rovers at Moredon on Thursday night. There were four different scorers for Penhill with Joe Anderson, Chris Angell, Gary Macieszonek and Kevin Halliday all finding the back of the net, Peter Byrne and Luke Wilson with the two Swindon Rovers goals.

Earlier in the week Chiseldon  extended their unbeaten run to four games with a 7-0 over Stratton Juniors, the third time they had beaten Stratton this season having also knocked them out of the League Cup. The two previous games had been tight affairs decided by a one goal margin but Tuesday’s game at Moredon was something of a one-sided affair. Three players all bagged a brace, Adam O’Keeffe, Richie Miles and Ashraf Ali with Alastair Drew getting the other Chiseldon goal. The win for Chiseldon saw them move to within a point of Swindon Rovers in the battle for a sixth-place finish with two games to play.

Mid Wiltshire Division

There were four games played in the Mid Wiltshire Division and all were tight affairs. Melksham Town remain unbeaten after a solitary goal from Gary Higdon, his 30^th of the season, was enough to give Melksham a 1-0 win over Westbury United on Monday night at Melksham.

The following night Calne Town were playing their final game of the season away to Bishops Cannings at Green Lane. The two sides had to settle for a point apiece, Adam Bewley with the Bishops Cannings goal and Chris Robinson netting for Calne Town to end the season on double figures. Calne are now the fourth side to complete their fixtures and currently sit in seventh place although could still be caught by Radstock Town.

Whilst on Monday Melksham had maintained their unbeaten league record, the other unbeaten side ahead of this week’s round of fixtures, Devizes Town, fell to their first defeat of the season. Devizes were up against Durrington, the other side along with Melksham in the mix for the league title, and were beaten 1-0 on home turf at Nursteed Road. The all-important goal was scored by Craig Lewis four minutes from time and the win saw Durrington move two points ahead of Devizes having played one game more. Durrington remain four points behind Melksham with three games to go with the two teams still to play each other at Durrington. Devizes will look to bounce back on Monday night when they visit Melksham for another game that could prove pivotal in what is proving to be an exciting race for the title between the three sides. David Giles was at the game and more of David's excellent pictures can be found on the League Facebook Group Page.

The final game of the week saw Westbury United play their second game of the week, bouncing back from that defeat at Melksham on Monday night with a 1-0 win away at Warminster Town on Friday night in front of a large crowd.