MARC Lanfear’s Westbury United Reserves and Ralph McCaldon’s fellow Division One relegation battlers Trowbridge Town Reserves battled out an entertaining 2-2 draw at Christie Miller.
Trowbridge opened the scoring through Levi Wood only for Marc Lanfear to get Westbury back on level terms.
A second from Lanfear put Westbury 2-1, but the White Horse men were denied all three points when Jason Truckle netted to restore parity to earn Town a share of the spoils.
After back-to-back losses against Melksham Town A, Chris Birlesson was glad to see his Freshford United side return to winning ways courtesy of their 1-0 victory at Hilperton United for whom it was their first defeat in five games.
Freshford were denied by the woodwork before and after Dave Percival’s second-half deflected effort handed them the points.
After gaining their first win of the campaign last weekend, Heytesbury were on the road at leaders Melksham Town A and, having already suffered an 8-0 loss in the reverse clash and an 11-0 defeat in the Knockout Cup, it was little surprise that they were beaten again, this time losing out 7-0.
Sean Fordham bagged his first of the game on two minutes, Jack Woolsgrove doubled the lead in the 14th minute and a second from Fordham on 35 minutes gave Melksham a 3-0 interval lead.
Neil Grant’s sublime volley made it 4-0 in the 53rd minute. Fordham had a 69th-minute penalty saved by Sam Spratt, but it wasn’t long before he found the net to complete his hat-trick and take it to 5-0.
Zac Hillier’s 25-yarder on 80 minutes and a Luke Turvey goal, 2 minutes from time made up Melksham’s seven.
Semington Magpies and Warminster Town Reserves met at Little Marsh in the first of back-to-back fixtures for the teams and it will be Warminster who go into 2017 meeting full of confidence after their 4-3 success.
Matt Gee’s goal for Warminster separated the teams at half time. A James Vincent double put Warminster 3-0 in front before Semington staged something of a comeback as goals from Rob Biggs and Richard Allum narrowed the gap to the odd goal.
Brendan Hind put Warminster 4-2 up and although Chris Dore scored a third for Semington it was a case of too little, too late as Warminster held on for victory.
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