Morgan fires a cracking treble (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Morgan fires a cracking treble

9:55am Thursday 23rd March 2006 in Football By Gazette Sport Reporter

U9 League Cup Semi Final

THREE goals from Morgan Burton gave Melksham Town their place in the final after beating Westbury 3-2.

They will meet Trowbridge Town in the final after their 2-1 win over rivals Trowbridge Wanderers.

U10 League Cup Semi Final

HARRY Bradford's goal was enough to see White Horse Juniors' Sparks through to the final after a 1-0 win over Team Bath Arsenal.

In the other match, Melksham Town ran out 4-0 winners against Chippenham Town thanks to goals from Jamie Broom and a hat-trick from Tom Maynard.

U11 League Cup Semi Final

AMESBURY Juniors will play Melksham Town in the final after they ran out 1-0 winners against Warminster Highbury.

William Jacomb gave Melksham an early lead in their tie against AFC Corsham but two quick replies put Corsham 2-1 in front at half time.

Mid-way through the second half Charlie Austin put Melksham back in the frame and only a missed penalty prevented Corsham from reaching the final.

The tie was finally decided when William Stead hit the back of the net for Melksham in extra time.

U12 League Cup Semi Final

JAMES Henry, Tristan O'Hagan and Tom Nicklen all scored for Amesbury Juniors in their 3-1 win against Bradford Town Youth.

Amesbury will meet FC Chippenham in May's final after they ran out 6-1 winners against Melksham Town Youth.

U13 League Cup Semi Final

AMESBURY Juniors took a 2-0 lead at the break against Trowbridge Town and held on to reach the final despite conceding in the second half.

In the other semi, Westbury were beaten 3-0 by Trowbridge Wanderers.

U14 League Cup Semi Final

A GOAL in each half saw FC Chippenham edge past Trowbridge Wanderers in a very close game.

Chippenham shaded the first half and went 1-0 up through Sibbick before Harrison secured the final ticket.

U15 League Cup Semi Final

DEVIZES Town stunned cup favourites Salisbury City with a 2-1 victory to reach the final.

They will face Trowbridge Town after their 3-0 win over FC Chippenham, who battled hard throughout the tie. Liam Flower was the match winner with a classy hat-trick.

U16 League Cup Semi Final

MELKSHAM Town Youth 2nds booked their place in the final after defeating Trowbridge Town 5-4 on penalties after a classic cup clash had ended 2-2.

It was suitable revenge after Trowbridge had dumped out the first team in the previous round.

U9 Red Division

DEVIZES and Melksham Town both finished their seasons off at the weekend. Devizes started the strongest, creating several opportunities, but it was Melksham who opened the scoring with a probing through pass picked up by Elliott Fudge who then rounded the keeper and slotted home.

Melksham duo Liam Harris and Alfie Kilgour took a vice like grip on the midfield and it was Kilgour who extended Melksham's lead early in the second half.

This seemed to kick start Devizes and after ten minutes of solid pressure Harry Easton scored with a long range shot.

U10 Blue Division

SECOND placed Larkhall Athletic Falcons remain two points behind the leaders with a game in hand after running out 2-1 winners against AFC Corsham Jaguars.

Larkhall took a narrow 1-0 lead at the break through Joseph Oswin then went on to double this through Olly Noad. Joe Knight scored for Jaguars with two minutes remaining.

U10 Green Division

AFTER dominating most of the game, Castle Combe had to come from behind twice against Devizes Town to earn a 2-2 draw.

Bradley Morris and Luca Grobler scored for Castle Combe with Harry Brinton and Jamie Ware replying for Devizes.

U10 Red Division

TROWBRIDGE Lions won the battle with White Horse Jets for third place thanks to a cracking hat-trick from Liam Taylor.

Trowbridge opened the scoring with a long range effort from Wesley McBarnett followed by further goals from Taylor and Nathan Owens to lead at half time. The second half saw Taylor score two more and a second Owens goal sealed a 6-0 win.

Westbury and AFC Corsham played out an exciting 2-2 draw at Redland Lane on Saturday.

After trailing at half time, Corsham took control of the match with an equaliser from David Mullins and a stunning goal from Aaron Ward-Baptise in the space of a few second half minutes.

However, Westbury showed great spirit and scored a deserved equaliser with five minutes to go as Charlie Burgess latched on to a through ball and coolly finished.

With leaders Corsham only managing a draw a win for second place Melksham Park would put them just three points behind. Lewis Pearce gave them a 2-0 lead at the break against local rivals Melksham Town with Conner Randell, Daniel Field, Luke Roberts and Luke Escott making it 6-0 at the final whistle.

U10 Yellow Division

SAM Jones and Jordan Wildman scored in either half to secure a 2-0 win for Worton and Cheverell against Trowbridge Pumas.

White Horse Gems played some of their best football this season to record a 5-1 win over Larkhall.

Man of the match Mike Crossley opened the scoring before Larkhall pulled level. Thomas Tadd made it 2-0 before an own goal and an Andrew Reynolds strike made it 4-1 at half time. Playing against the strong wind Tadd made it 5-1 early in the second half and White Horse held on to register their third win of the season.

U11 Division Three

FC Chippenham took a 2-0 lead at the break against Melksham Town and gave a repeat performance in the second half to record a 4-0 victory.

Harry Campbell (2), Steve Hayes and Nicky Manifold were on target.

An excellent performance between both teams left Westbury 4-1 up at half time against AFC Calne with goals scored by Kai Bingham and a wonderful hat-trick from Luke Booth.

Calne scored two goals shortly after the break before Stuart Brothers scored to give Westbury their second win of the season.

U11 Division Four

WORTON and Cheverell move up to second after running out 5-2 winners at Trowbridge Wanderers.

Matt Walsh (5), Connor Cuttler (2), Dean Pike (2) and Connor Fry scored for Amesbury Lions in their comprehensive victory over Bradford.

Warminster Juniors dropped from first to third in the table after drawing 2-2 at Malmesbury.

Malmesbury were 2-1 up at the break with goals from Alex Poulitou and Tom Hayden, but Warminster battled hard in the second half to salvage a point.

U11 Division five

BROMHAM move up to second in the table after running out 5-2 winners away to Chippenham Town Rangers. Will Geeves and Aaron Fernandez scored for Rangers.

U12 Green Division

AFC Corsham move up to second in the table after running out 6-1 winners against home side Westbury Youth.

Mel King (5) and Leigh Rogers scored for Corsham with Lewis Gardiner replying for Westbury.

White Horse Juniors took a 3-1 half time lead in their match at FC Chippenham. The game was well balanced with White Horse making it 6-2 by full time. Max Bush (2), Ben Wickens (3) and Tom Sigee scored for .

U12 Red Division

A BRACE from Sam Wozniak could not prevent Castle Combe Colts from crashing to a 5-2 defeat against Westbury.

Melksham Park ran out 4-2 winners against home side Bromham with Jack Sheppard and Steven Price scoring for Bromham.

U13 Blue Division

AFC Calne ran out 5-1 winners in their home game against Chippenham Town thanks to goals from Mike Coulson (3) and Josh Eades (2).

U13 Red Division

DANIEL Pearce notched his first goal of the season as Castle Combe won 2-1 at FC Chippenham.

Giorgio Falcone made it 2-0 with a 30-yard rocket free kick before Chippenham headed home a consolation.

Combe keeper Lui Polastrone was in brilliant form to hold onto the win.

U15 Red Division

AMESBURY Juniors move up to third in the table after their convincing 7-2 home win against White Horse Juniors.

Amesbury saw goals from Jack Gentle (4), Nathan Mundy, James Chapman and Peter Hilliard.

Castle Combe Colts took all the points after their narrow 4-3 victory over home side Amesbury Juniors' 2nds. Scott Ranachan (2) and Cory Knowles scored for Amesbury.

South Newton and Wishford took the lead at second place Chippenham Town Youth when keeper Ben Young slotted the ball into the back of the net from the penalty spot.

Chippenham pushed forward for the equaliser and were rewarded just before the break.

A goal from Ricky Harrison mid way through the second half secured the points for the visitors.

U16 Red Division

MELKSHAM Town move up to third in the division after their narrow 1-0 win at Devizes Blues.

The game was end to end and very sporting, with the goal being scored late on by James Muir.

North Wilts U18 Division

CHIPPENHAM Wanderers were brought crashing back down to earth after last weekend's championship triumph, going down 5-1 to Stratton for their first league defeat of the season.

Aaron Maximen (2) and Tom Price (2) made it 4-0 before a consolation from Mark Dolman. David Jenkins stole in to score Stratton's fifth and round off a disappointing game for Chippenham.