WHITE Horse saw their Division Two title hopes suffer another setback as they beaten by a brilliant free-kick from Brendan Hind that saw an in-form Heytesbury side keep their own promotion hopes alive with a 3-2 success.

With leaders Westbury Town winning 2-0 at Calne Eagles, White Horse are now ten points behind their rivals, but with games in hand they they should catch Westbury although Holt and Heytesbury ahead of them they could prove harder to catch.

Heytesbury got off to a flyer and opened the scoring on eight minutes, Nick Shuttlewood finding Bradley Edwards whose defence splitting pass picked out Leigh Kennedy who planted home for 1-0.

White Horse were level two minutes later, Dale Rowland crossing for Kane Scott who headed home to square things up at one apiece.

Heytesbury retook the lead in the 15th minute, Kieran Edwards playing in Kennedy who kept his calm to put the villagers 2-1 up. Midway through the half White Horse restored parity for a second time, Dave Whyte heading home.

On 68 minutes Heytesbury were awarded a free kick 20 yards from goal, Brendan Hind stepped up and curled home a wonder goal right into the top corner giving keeper Andy Ladd no chance whatsoever.

Ladd denied Heytesbury a fourth when he kept out James Reeves while at the other end Sam Spratt came to his teams rescue with a brilliant reaction save that denied Paul Beavers a late equaliser for the White Horse.

Westbury Town kept up their pursuit for the hotly-contested two automatic promotion places when they overcame battling Calne Eagles 2-0, thanks to a superb early brace from striker Shane Newman.

Calne Eagles have made an unwanted habit of conceding early goals in recent matches and this continued when they went behind after only five minutes of play.

A teasing cross from a free kick into the Calne penalty box was superbly headed into the top corner from Shane Newman. Newman was at it again on 15 minutes when he guided another great header past Andy Windsor in Calne’s goal.

At this point Westbury were in command and missed numerous good chances extend their lead even further.

Andy Windsor saved well from Adam Bewley and Calne defender Gary Wootten was somewhat fortunate when his attempted clearance struck the inside of the post and was eventually cleared off the line by Lawrence Elliott.

However, as the game progressed Calne settled and started to compete with their table topping opponents.

Calne’s Karl Sharratt came desperately came close to scoring on his return to the club when he was put clean through on goal by a brilliant raking pass from Russell Driver. The away side also forced numerous corners and goalmouth scrambles.

In second half Calne probably just about edged the game but they could not score the goal that would have made the game interesting.

Calne midfielder Adam Moody came closest when he saw his close range shot saved by Westbury’s keeper Matt Gardiner.

Russell Driver also nearly capped a superb individual performance when he beat two defenders and the goalkeeper but could not quite force the ball home.

Westbury continually looked dangerous themselves going forwards and came closest to scoring again in the final minutes when a good shot from Shane Newman slipped under the body of goalkeeper Andy Windsor.

However, full-back Lawrence Elliott covered well to clear the ball off the line, which then cannoned off Westbury striker Adam Bewley from close range, straight back into the grateful hands of Windsor.

United FC, playing in only their second game of 2015 and their second since early December, returned from Seend with a 2-0 victory over fellow relegation battlers Worton & Cheverell.

United, who had not won since they beat Bradford United Reserves 5-2 in October, ended their winless run thanks to goals from Jozef Zapotoczny who gave them a 16th-minute lead and Miroslaw Uszpelkat who sublime strike on the half-volley in the final minute sealed the victory which moved his team out of the drop zone.

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