Devizes succumbed to their first defeat in the Davis Wood League Conference North division as they were edged out 2-1 by Leominster at home on Saturday.

The hosts started brightly and should have opened the scoring, but it was the visitors who took the lead, deflecting home from a well-worked corner.

Devizes racked up the penalty corners but could not convert and paid the price when some sloppy defending saw Leominster get a second.

This kick-started the home side into gear and they eventually found the net when Roger Edwards converted a penalty corner.

Marlborough bounced back from their defeat the previous week to hit Minehead for six in their Central One encounter.

Veteran forward and new father Steve Way got Marlborough moving with a run and canny deflection for the opener before Dan Crossman calmly slotted home from an acute angle.

Minehead’s tactical adjustment briefly held back the home surge but Anid Sud fired home from the top of the D.

Sud scored again following a well-worked short corner routine and his hat-trick was completed after striker Will Hughes’ unselfish lay-off.

Minehead lost discipline, home skipper Richard Holman being felled by a late tackle, and were reduced to nine players.

When Hughes was cut down in the D, Sud fired home his fourth goal to complete the scoring.

Chippenham are still unbeaten in Central One after they defeated Firebrands B 2-0 in Bristol.

Nigel Stonham, Simon Walker and Luke Morris set up the opener for Mark Knight, who added a second inside the final 20 minutes.

Corsham maintained their perfect start in East Central Two, thrashing Shepton Mallet 6-0.

The first goal came from a attack down the right from Ryan Lewis pulling the ball back for Jackson Curry-Duff to reverse it into the net.

Then, Tom Bowrey took over, scoring the remaining five goals to wrap up victory.

  • WOOTTON Bassett Ladies secured their second win in the West Clubs League East Division with a 5-1 success over Gillingham.

Within five minutes, the visitors had taken the lead as Katy Cox latched onto a Kelly Lusted strike which was heading wide of the post.

Lusted got Bassett’s second goal after half time, placing a shot into the bottom right-hand corner before Gillingham replied.

With ten minutes left Bassett captain Emma Collison scored her first goal from a deflection off a Suzanne Lello strike before Lello laid the ball off to Rebekah Taylor who wrong-footed the keeper.

Collison then followed up her own run to finish off after a Taylor strike had not been cleared.

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