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Club reports from Saturday, 27 February, 2010
Press Round-up will be posted later

League action...
Kings win through the mud
Kings Arms 4 Ashbourne 1
Home scorers: D. Mason, S. Barsby, M Surgey
Away scorer: B Gadsby

With Ashbourne wanting a win, and the Kings Arms wanting the points, it was all to play for in the mud on Crich Rec. With even play at both ends during most of the first half, it was the Kings who made the breakthrough with a goal from Darryl Mason.

   Fired up by the manager at half time, the Kings came out fighting and thought it was all over when Sam Barsby fired in two in quick succession. However, the Kings sat back as Ashbourne began to push through the midfield, and they were rewarded with a goal from Ben Gadsby.

   With the Kings on the backfoot, Ashbourne had all the play, putting the Kings defence and keeper under pressure, but a screaming 30-yard 'piledriver' goal from old hand and man-of-the-match Matt Surgey sealed the victory for the Kings – final score 4-1.

• MOM Ashbourne: Craig Startin.

Manor Pharmacy Shield action...
Shirland's fantastic Shield victory
Shirland Miners Welfare 3 Riddings Rovers 1
Home scorers: D. Hegarty, S. Boot, R Harrison
Away scorer: A. Bonser

Shirland continued there impressive ten match unbeaten home record on Saturday with a fantastic 3-1 win against Riddings Rovers in the Manor Pharmacy Shield quarter-final.

   Riddings started this game the better side in terms of possession and could have been comfortably in front but for the two fine saves from Shirland's keeper Daz Shaw in the first 15 minutes. He pulled off a fine save to keep out a thunderous Andrew Bonser effort. He followed up shortly afterwards with a point-blank save from Mark Turner.

   Shirland realised that they had to step up a gear against a Riddings side that clearly wanted to win this game and within 20 minutes started to match Rovers all over the park.

   Ian Hursthouse started to cause the visitor's back four some real problems with his sheer pace on the ball and could have put Shirland in front with his first attack.

   The first goal came in the form of Shirland's top goal scorer Dale Hegarty, this season's new singing boasts the frame of a man capable of wrestling bears. His strength, power and skill on the ball is the best I've seen in Stonebroom for many years. And boy can he demolish opponents when he is hungry and more often than not recently Hegarty has had a big appetite for goal.

   It wasn't long before Riddings hit back to make the score 1-1 just before half-time with a well deserved goal from Andrew Bonser.

   The second half saw Riddings go forward with real intent on winning this game playing some fantastic football and causing Shirland some big problems and within five minutes of the re-start Riddings were awarded a penalty. Luckily for Shirland the resulting spot kick hit the post and the ball was cleared up-field.

   Shirland's second goal came from Steven Boot, with a fantastic 35-yard shot that caught the Riddings keeper Michael Clover napping and off his line. Shirland's Ian Hursthouse was up next to put the ball into the back of the net only to be ruled off-side.

   The second half saw manager Dave Thurnham bring on Oliver Brown, Lee Bellamy and Ben Skelton to try and tighten things up which stopped Riddings from playing. Richard Harrison, who works so hard all over the pitch, moved to left back and made an instant inpact stopping Riddings coming forward every time they attacked down the wing.

   Shirland's third goal came when a player was bought down and a penalty was awarded, up stepped Richard Harrison who cooly slotted home to send Shirland into the semi-final!!

• MOM: Shirland Daz Shaw

Press Round-up
YouthÕs Martin hits four in Cavendish Cup win
27 February, 2010

Matlock Town Youth goal machine Scott Martin sealed his club's Cavendish Cup semi-final slot with four strikes to earn a 5-2 victory against Tibshelf Community in a great encounter.

   Martin bagged two in a first half dominated by Matlock to give them a comfortable lead, but after the break Tibshelf were a real force and were perhaps a little unlucky to get caught on the break with two more Martin goals and another from Sam Hodgson. Tibshelf's goals came from Paul Barnes and Dan Bacon.

   Shirland Miners Welfare continued there impressive ten-match unbeaten home record on with a fantastic 3-1 win against Riddings Rovers in the Manor Pharmacy Shield quarter-final.

   Riddings started this game the better side in terms of possession and could have been comfortably in front but for fine saves from Shirland's man-of-the-match keeper Daz Shaw, including a thunderous Andrew Bonser effort and a point-blank save from Mark Turner.

   The first goal came from Shirland's top goal scorer Dale Hegarty, whose strength, power and skill on the ball earned him his reward. But it wasn't long before Riddings hit back just before half-time with a deserved goal from Bonser.

   After the break Riddings played some fantastic football causing Shirland big problems and within five minutes were awarded a penalty which luckily hit the post and the ball was cleared up-field.

   Shirland's second goal came from Steven Boot, with a fantastic 35-yard shot that caught the Riddings keeper Michael Clover napping and off his line. The home team secured the victory when a player was bought down and a penalty was awarded. Up stepped Richard Harrison who coolly slotted home to send Shirland into the semi-final!

   In the the only league match of the afternoon Kings Arms ran out 4-1 winners against Ashbourne in the Crich mud.

   With even play at both ends during most of the first half, it was Kings who made the breakthrough with a goal from Darryl Mason. Rallied by the manager, Kings came out fighting after the break and thought it was all over when Sam Barsby fired home two in quick succession.

   However, Kings sat back as Ashbourne began to push through the midfield, and they were rewarded with a goal from Ben Gadsby.

   With Kings on the backfoot, Ashbourne had all the play, putting the home team's defence and keeper under pressure, but a screaming 30-yard piledriver from old hand and man-of-the-match Matt Surgey sealed the victory for the Kings Ð final score 4-1.

• Manor Pharmacy Shield semi-final action sees Hilcote United v Kings Arms on Saturday (6 March, 2010) while in the league itÕs AFC Lea Holloway v Darley Dale Lions, Ashbourne v Matlock Town Youth, Tibshelf Community v Harveys Bar, Laburnum Saints v Shirland Miners Welfare and Riddings Rovers v Black Hippo.