Sport Holders' goal feast in cup tie
Division One Cup
Victoria Rangers 17, Marshland Wanderers 0
Rangers trounced Marshland Wanderers to reach the last four of the Division One cup at Western Road on Sunday morning.
The writing was on the wall for visitors Marshland Wanderers as early as the second minute when Jason Gibbon netted from an acute angle, and he went on to score a double hat-trick.
Eight were scored in the first half, and a further nine in the second half with the remainder of the scorers, Calvin Wheldrake with four, Adam Barker with three, Liam Mitchell, Steve Williams and a penalty from Karl Blanchard.
To Marshland's credit they never gave in, and their keeper made several fine saves despite being beaten at regular intervals.
The Mansfield Brewery Man of the Match was shared between Jason Gibbon and Karl Blanchard.
Hatfield Woodhouse 0, NUR 1
This was the first-ever meeting between the two teams and the weather played a major part in the proceedings.
A game of two halves is the classic cliche, but the strong wind made it that way.
The opening 45 minutes saw the visitors with the advantage and although they started slowly, within 15 minutes they had found their rhythm and created good openings.
Swan went close with a fine volley and the front two of Beattie and Potter were forever busy.
The Hatfield keeper had that clumsy appearance with his handling skills, but survived for 25 minutes.
That was when the visitors scored what turned out to be the winning goal, an inswinging corner by McKinnon was flicked on at the near post and player manager Burnitt cleverly lost his marker and a bullet header found the back of the net.
More chances followed but one or two strange offside decisions appeared to go against the NUR.
After the break, the visitors found the conditions against their style of football, and it needed grit and determination from all the players, and they didn't disappoint.
Woodhouse threw everything at them but good, solid defending kept them at bay, although they survived a slice of luck a minute from time when a shot was turned on to the crossbar by Matty Burnitt and to safety.
Division Two Cup Quarter Final
Rawcliffe Bridge Hotel 2, Canal Tavern 5
Canal Tavern overcame difficult conditions and a determined Rawcliffe team to make it into the semi- finals of the Division Two Cup.
With the wind behind them in the first half, Rawcliffe looked far better than their bottom position in the league would suggest.
They went ahead after ten minutes after a mistake by the Tavern central defenders and goalkeeper Lee Peate which left the Bridge centre forward on his own to tap the ball home.
The visitors struggled to get to grips with the tough tackling from the home side and had to bring off Jed McCormack, Sean McCarthy and Centre half Craig Hampson after only 20 minutes, and it wasn't until the half-hour mark that Darren Brown levelled the scores with a volley on the turn.
But Bridge were ahead when the centre forward drilled the ball home.
At half time the game changed as Daz Brown turned and shot the visitors level, and then saw a great cross from Adam Freeborn find himself free in the area to head home.
The Tavern's fitness told in the last 20 minutes as Bridge were on the back foot for most of the second half and a 40-yard cross-cum-shot from newly-signed Scott Pearson, brother of Lee, saw the keeper off his line and that was 5-2 and end of the game.
Tavern will have to up their game for this Sunday's Goole and Thorne cuptie, where they meet Doncaster Premiership side Barnby Dun at home.
Many thanks to all our supporters and particularly Don Despatch, B. Warren roofing and Alex from Key Kars.
Published on 14th December 2006 in Sport.
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