Top two in promotion clash (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Top two in promotion clash

8:50am Monday 26th March 2007 in Football

Chippenham Sunday League Division Four

First and second Bromham (Sunday) and AFC Bell met at the Jubilee Fields, Bromham and it was the hosts who claimed a brilliant 4-0 success to open up a four point lead.

Freddie Paget may have scored all of the four goals but each goal had a different provider, Ricky Gullis set up the first, with Alex Wells creating the second.

Ady Kember, playing in his first game for five seasons made number three and Steve Moxham had a hand in the fourth. Sean Kingsbury was denied a fifth for the winners when his blistering strike rattled the woodwork.

AFC Melksham stayed in the hunt for an automatic promotion place after they stretched their unbeaten run to eight matches.

But before arriving at their 6-1 win, they were given an early scare by North Star B who lost for a fifth successive time, but led after two minutes through a Simon Clifford goal.

Matt Russell restored parity for Melksham who then rattled the woodwork no fewer than five times in the first half as well as having two goals disallowed but then took their chance in the second period to run out easy winners.

Once Wayne Bailey put Melksham in front on 50 minutes it looked as if the floodgates would open, but that wasn't the case as they had to wait until the 77th minute before scoring number three with came courtesy of Andy Harrison.

The final ten minutes saw Gareth Evans take his tally to 18 since his move from Pig & Whistle United when he bagged a hat trick to complete the scoring from the 81st to 88th minute.

Churchill Arms locked horns with their bitter rivals The Rising Sun FC and they romped to an emphatic 7-0 victory to claim bragging rites for a month at least until the teams meet again.

Churchill were without player manger Oliver Hickton, who missed the match due to a holiday.

Jamie Bayes, Paul Heath and Ben Smith all scored singles with Robin Gorham making up the seven with a four goal haul.

Dean Potter, scored for The Crown FC last weekend after his self imposed exile the prolific marksman hit the net again for the Devizes based team in their 5-3 triumph away at the Wanderers.

Potter scored after five minutes to put his team ahead, and an excellent shot on the turn in the 40th minute gave The Crown a 2-0 half time lead. Jason Lucas tapped home a third for the Crown in the 49th minutes before Dan Sloan volleyed home from 18 yards to increase the visitor's advantage.

Carl Mackness pull a goal back for Wanderers when he headed home a Nick Tate corner, but the Crown hit back via Nick Harford whose effort made it 5-1.

Wanderers staged a mini revival with Dave Grundy scoring from the penalty spot and Mackness driving home a second from 16 yards to cut the gap to two, but it was all to late to save Wanderers from their eighth loss of the campaign.

Promotion hopefuls Little George FC were unable to raise a team to face Chippenham West End Club.