THEIR Woodmarsh home may be under water but Trowbridge Town ensured that their title challenge continues to be plain sailing with victory at Royal Wootton Bassett Town Reserves last weekend.

Unable to host Devizes Town Reserves on Saturday, a raft of hasty rearrangements allowed Trowbridge to travel to Bassett in what was to prove to be the only game on the weekend’s Wiltshire League Premier Division fixture list to survive the elements.

The Bees took full advantage of a their first run-out in seven weeks – their last outing was a 6-0 win at Sarum Youth on November 28 – to run out 2-1 winners at the Gerrard Buxton Sports Ground.

James Vincent was teed up by Shaun Percival, who was later sent off for two bookings, to put Trowbridge in front in the first half before Matt Sharp netted their second from a corner, with the home side reducing the deficit in injury time to set up a tense finale.

“The referee seemed to keep playing on and on, almost so that they could equalise, and when I asked him why there was so much time added on afterwards, he couldn’t tell me – it didn’t matter though because we got the win,” said Trowbridge manager Kieran Baggs.

“We were a bit slow in the first 20 or 25 minutes and there was definitely some ring rust. We were also missing Jake Hiscocks, Dan King and Dan Shanley but it was good to see a few of the U18 lads come in and do a great job for us.

“Woodmarsh is under water. The groundsman can’t get on the pitch to cut the grass and my chairman and secretary have told me that we might not be able to play at home for almost a month.

“I think things for last weekend were rearranged on the Thursday before. Devizes went to Sarum and if you’re given the chance to play at Bassett, you’ll snap it up because the new facility they’ve got there is absolutely amazing.

“Going forward, we’re going to just have to try and arrange away games with anyone that’s got a free fixture.

“We’re still unbeaten in the league and (Senior KO) cup and I’m glad that we were able to keep that going.”

Trowbridge are five points clear at the top, with three games in hand on second-placed Shrewton United.