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home against league<br />
leaders Berrow. There<br />
was also a surprise<br />
defeat for Nailsea United as they<br />
went down 3-1 at lowly Stockwood Green. All<br />
of this meant that Minehead elevated up to<br />
fourth place just two points behind Ashton<br />
and Backwell United. Shirehampton enjoyed<br />
a goal glut as they thumped struggling visitors<br />
Weston St Johns 7-1. Amazingly Shirehamp-<br />
ton only had a Scott Bamford 25 th minute<br />
strike to show for their efforts before the<br />
interval. The visitors equalised on the hour<br />
through Ben Price but the floodgates opened<br />
shortly afterwards. Kyle Donovan fired in a<br />
hat-trick, together with a further effort from<br />
Bamford and a brace from substitute Rob<br />
Sage completed the rout. However, there<br />
was no joy for bottom club St George Easton<br />
in Gordano after they slipped to a 3-1 defeat<br />
at Bishops Lydeard. Second from bottom club<br />
Clevedon United gained an unexpected but<br />
welcome point in a 3-3 draw at Langford<br />
Rovers 2000. The home side went ahead<br />
after eleven minutes when Levi Marlowe<br />
headed in Ryan Havard’s free-kick. Clevedon<br />
were quick to reply ten minutes later through<br />
a Nick Lee penalty but Langford regained the<br />
lead just before the interval as Aaron<br />
Blakemore headed past keeper Sam<br />
Hemmingsley to make it 2-1. The scoring<br />
continued ten minutes after the break as<br />
Chris Greenslade beat the offside trap to<br />
equalise for Clevedon only for Ryan Havard to<br />
scramble the ball home after 75 minutes to<br />
make it 3-2 to Langford. Havard shortly<br />
afterwards received a yellow card and with<br />
time running out Clevedon snatched a<br />
dramatic point when Lee latched onto a Mark<br />
Harris flick to score.<br />
Minehead AFC - (Errea Somerset County Premier League) Page 35<br />
A West Country Round-Up provided by Tim Rawlings<br />
Last Saturday turned out to be a disappointing<br />
one for our local teams in the Evo-<br />
Stik Southern League Division One South and<br />
West. Fifth placed Tiverton Town picked up<br />
their fourth draw on the trot when they<br />
shared the points in a 1-1 draw with Bishops<br />
Cleeve at Ladysmead. It was substitute Jules<br />
Emati-Emati that put Tiverton ahead after the<br />
break when he let fly with a dipping shot that<br />
eluded Bishops keeper Jimmy Nortei and into<br />
the net. But the visitors did not give up and<br />
were rewarded with an equaliser through<br />
Sam Williams, who with space and time<br />
drilled past the home custodian Chris Wright.<br />
Play-off hopefuls Bridgwater Town suffered a<br />
setback as they slumped to a 3-1 home defeat<br />
against high riding Paulton Rovers. The<br />
visitors struck first when Scott Brice headed<br />
home a Ben Lacey cross after just five<br />
minutes but Bridgwater replied six minutes<br />
later through a Steve Fitzpatrick header.<br />
Paulton continued to control the first-half<br />
and were rewarded when James Billing swept<br />
a low shot into the net on 31 minutes.<br />
Bridgwater were unlucky not to equalise after<br />
Tim Legg struck the underside of the bar, but<br />
Paulton sealed the result with a crisp 25-yard<br />
strike from Dan Cleverley on 73 minutes.<br />
Taunton Town fared little better as they went<br />
down 2-1 at Cinderford Town despite taking a<br />
28 th minute lead through Craig Herrod from<br />
15 yards. The home side fought back with a<br />
41 st minute leveller when a Dale Evans effort<br />
took a wicked deflection to deceive Taunton<br />
keeper Conor Thompson. The points went<br />
Cinderford’s way when Alex Evans headed<br />
home a free-kick after 57 minutes and<br />
Taunton were unable to force an equaliser<br />
even after Matt Barnes was sent-off following<br />
a second yellow card offence.
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