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ASCOT STRIKE LATE TO HOLD HANWORTH
Last-gasp McCormack goal salvages 1-1 draw against champions Villa
Tuesday 5th April 2022 - Combined Counties League Premier Division North - Ascot
United 1 - 1 Hanworth Villa
Sean McCormack rescued a point for Ascot United as The Yellamen came
from a goal down to draw 1-1 with unbeaten league champions Hanworth
Villa on Tuesday evening. Trailing 1-0 at the break, The Yellamen produced a
dominant second half performance to become one of just four teams to take
points off Villa this season.
After a frantic start from both sides it was the visitors who took an early lead
when Sami Gagan’s header from a tenth minute corner gave home ‘ keeper
Sam Gray no chance.
Ascot enjoyed spells of good possession with McCormack involved in the
thick of it, and he might have drawn Ascot level just before half-time only to
sting the palms of visiting ‘keeper Terry Buss; a man proving hard to beat as
Villa had kept clean sheets in their five previous games.
Aiming to preserve their own decent run of just two defeats in seventeen
matches coming into the game, Ascot came out firing in the second half and
after chances for Morgan who almost caught out Buss, McCormack, and then
man-of-the match Tom Scott whose show was well saved, McCormack
deservedly levelled post with virtually the last kick of the game. This time, he
was on hand to capitalize on an uncharacteristic error from Buss to slide
home at the far post to the delight of the majority of the 150-plus crowd.
There was little time for the home side to force a winner, but they
nonetheless joined an elite group containing only Burnham, Edgware and
Wokingham who can boast of drawing with the seemingly invincible
champions.
The Yellamen are now not in action until Easter Saturday when they entertain
local rivals Windsor FC.
Ascot United: Gray, Lock, Masters, Scott, Bouwers, Bailey, McCormack,
Surpanu (Hall), T. Morgan, August, C. Morgan. Subs unused: Richardson,
Sykes, Nortey