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Yate Bring in
Title-Winner

Pitching In Southern League
Premier Division South club Yate
Town have signed defender Ioan
Richards.
The 21-year-old helped Taunton
Town to win the Premier Division
South title in 2021/22, making 24
appearances, after arriving in
August 2021 from Southern
Premier Division Central outfit Redditch United.
Richards joined Vanarama National League North side Gloucester City in July 2019
following his youth career with League One neighbours Cheltenham Town.
He had experience of non-League football in an 18-game loan spell with Southern
Division One South outfit Slimbridge in 2018/19 and returned to that division just
before Christmas 2019 with Mangotsfield United.

Parkway Borrow Title-Winner

Plymouth Parkway, promoted to the Pitching In Southern League Premier Division
South, have brought in centre-forward Jared Lewington on a short-term loan from
Vanarama National League South new boys Taunton Town.

The 28-year-old made 35 appearances and contributed 11 goals as the Peacocks
won the Southern Premier Division South title last season, having joined them in
May 2021.

He had signed for National League side Torquay United in late November 2019 from
Southern Premier South side Tiverton Town and then made the reverse journey in
July 2020.
He had returned to Tivvy in June 2019 from new rivals Truro City.
He had made the move to Cornwall in June 2018 having made 23 appearances for
the Yellows during the 2017/18 season.
He joined Tiverton from Toolstation Western League side Buckland Athletic in
January 2018, having signed for Buckland from South West Peninsula League outfit
Bovey Tracey as a raw 19-year-old at the start of the 2013/14 season and quickly
established himself as a first choice at the higher level.
Lewington scored in his Parkway debut on Tuesday night. Unfortunately for him
and his new team, it was onl a consolation in a 3-1 defeat at Dorchester Town.